(M) Directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Every now and again, an actor goes to extraordinary lengths to create an unforgettable character and this is what Sean Penn does as he transforms into Cheyenne – a bored, wealthy, retired American glam rock star now living in Dublin. Based on The Cure’s Robert Smith, he is a complex [...]
(MA) Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Winterbottom takes Thomas Hardy’s classic Tess of the d’Urbervilles from the cold climes of nineteenth century England to the heat of modern day India. In Rajasthan, Trishna (Slumdog Millionaire’s Freida Pinto) has to go out to work when her father’s accident prevents him from earning an income because she is [...]
(PG) Directed by Emilio Estevez. While Charlie Sheen has been getting all the media attention for being an idiot, the rest of his family seem to be quietly getting on with more interesting endeavours. His brother, Emilio Estevez, known for his acting roles in The Breakfast Club, The Outsiders and Young Guns, has written and [...]
(MA) Directed by Kieran Darcy-Smith. Not long after Steph (Teresa Palmer) meets her exciting new boyfriend Jeremy (Antony Starr), she convinces her sister Alice (Felicity Price) and Alice’s husband Dave (Joel Edgerton) that they should all go to Cambodia for a holiday. Filmed in Cambodia, Wish You Were Here opens with a kaleidoscope of images [...]
Ecstasy (MA) (Directed by Rob Heydon) Irvine Welsh’s novel Trainspotting rocked the world with the uncompromising way it portrayed heroin addicts in squalid Edinburgh. Danny Boyle’s film, based on Welsh’s book, has to be rated as one of the most shocking and memorable films of all time. Equally confrontational, but fortunately not quite as shocking, [...]
(MA) Directed by David Cronenberg In Zurich in 1904, a 19 year-old Russian woman was dragged into a psychiatric hospital, screaming and violently lashing out. In those times, men in suits had methods for dealing with hysterical women – methods closer to torture than healing. Novice psychiatrist Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) decided to treat the [...]
(PG) Directed by John Madden India is a Mecca for outsourcing everything from making shoes to tech support. When Sonny (Dev Patel) takes over running a dilapidated hotel in Jaipur, he decides to outsource old age and advertises it as the “Hotel for the Elderly and Beautiful”. Being much cheaper than England, several Brits make [...]
(M) Directed by Donovan Marsh Two things happened in South Africa in 1990. Nelson Mandela was released from prison and John (Spud) Milton (Troye Sivan who was born in South Africa but now lives in Perth) started at an elite boys’ boarding school after winning a scholarship. The eight boys in his dormitory had nicknames [...]
(M) Directed by Gary Ross By the time this review goes to print, the word will be out that the film based on the first of Suzanne Collin’s trilogy is this year’s blockbuster. Set in the future, the edge-of-your-seat action centres around sixteen year-old Katniss (Winter Bone’s Jennifer Lawrence) who is named after an edible [...]
(PG) Directed by Jonathan Liebesman There’s lots of gods fighting for supremacy in this film and all of them seem to have huge anger issues with their closest relatives. Brothers Zeus (Liam Neeson) and Hades (Ralph Fiennes) bring sibling rivalry to new heights and there is no love lost on their father either. One of [...]
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