30 April 2016
Adelaide real estate agent Frank Mollard (Anthony LaPaglia) isn’t doing well. He’s divorced from his actress wife, estranged from his son, drifting aimlessly through his job and now his mum’s on the phone telling him she’s not happy.
29 April 2016
Roy (Michael Shannon) and Lucas (Joel Edgerton), along with the pre-teen Alton (Jaeden Lieberher) are sitting in a hotel room.
21 April 2016
Trying to build a sequel around one half of a successful double-act is tricky work (just ask Speed 2: Cruise Control). As a sequel to Snow White and the Huntsman, The Huntsman: Winter’s War just about makes it work. With Kristen Stewart’s Snow White gone, the focus is on Liam Hemsworth’s Huntsman.
17 April 2016
Part three in the Divergant series begins where part two ended; with the “shock” reveal that the whole faction system that rules in the ruins of Chicago is an experiment put in place by mysterious beings beyond the city wall.
14 April 2016
When billionaire business mogul Michelle Darnell (Melissa McCarthy) is sentenced to six months (in a very cushy) prison for insider trading, her harried assistant and single mother Claire (Kristen Bell) is finally free… until six months later, when Michelle shows up on her door with nowhere else to go.
8 April 2016
Remember when Po (the voice of Jack Black) was worried he was never going to fit in with the martial arts legends The Furious Five?
6 April 2016
It’s been 14 years since My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and not much has changed: Toula Portokalos (Nia Vardalos who again wrote the script) now works in the family restaurant, lives on the same street as her family and dotes on her 17-year-old daughter Paris (Elena Kampouris).
4 April 2016
Rock icon Marianne Lane (Tilda Swinton) is mutely relaxing on a sunny coastal retreat with her boyfriend Paul (Matthias Schoenaerts) after throat surgery when their lazing around is harshly interrupted by the arrival of her high energy ex Harry (Ralph Fiennes) and a young lady who he claims is his daughter Penelope (Dakota Fanning).
1 April 2016
Eighteen months have passed since the city-smashing events of Man of Steel, and while much of the world has embraced Superman (Henry Cavill), there’s still a lot of mistrust – especially from vigilante Batman (Ben Affleck), who’s become increasingly bitter and violent in his old(er) age.
26 March 2016
Cloverfield was the surprise hit of 2008; a found-footage tale of a giant monster’s rampage through New York. As sequels go, 10 Cloverfield Lane is about as far from that as you can get: after leaving her fiancée in New York, Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) is driving as far away as she can get when her car is hit and she wakes up chained to a wall in the basement of Howard (John Goodman).
25 March 2016
This isn’t exactly “what if James Bond had a soccer hooligan brother” (that’d be Kingsman), but when Nobby (Sasha Baron Cohen), Grimsby resident and massive soccer fan, finally tracks down his long-lost brother Sebastian (Mark Strong) only to find he’s a posh, gadget-heavy secret agent, you’d be forgiven for expecting a bunch of spy antics with some broad comedy mixed in. And you’d be right… except that when Sasha Baron Cohen is involved, “broad” is an understatement.
23 March 2016
Living in exile from their community in 1630’s New England, a deeply religious family tend their struggling farm on the edge of a dark wood.
19 March 2016
In a world where all kinds of animals try to live in harmony, rabbit Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) is going against the grain. She’s joined the police force – not usually the domain of “cute” (a racist insult in this world) little bunnies in a world where lions and lambs are meant to exist side by side – and even being a traffic cop doesn’t come free of prejudice.
13 March 2016
At first glance this film adaptation of Alan Bennett’s play and memoir sounds like the worst kind of treacle: an introverted writer (Alex Jennings, playing Bennett) finds his life turned upside down when a fiery, obnoxious and somewhat odorous old lady (Maggie Smith) parks the van she lives in outside his London home.
12 March 2016
It’s been a while since the Coen Brothers have made a straight-out comedy (perhaps because their reputation there is a little hit-and-miss); Hail, Caesar does a pretty good job of highlighting both their strengths and weaknesses when it comes to getting laughs.
11 March 2016
We’ve seen a few crime films of late that have suggested crime is turning America into a warzone, but this cranks it up a notch: here Atlanta is a city torn between murderous Latino gangs who leave severed heads on car bonnets just for fun, and the all-Jewish Russian Mob who have a stranglehold on the “tied up people in car boots” market.
6 March 2016
Michael Bay doing a based-on-a-true-story war movie should be a no-brainer in more ways than one, and it’s fair to say that this features both a lot of impressive action sequences and not a great deal of insight into the causes of those action sequences.
27 February 2016
There’s a lot to like about Zoolander 2. For one thing, rarely has there been a feature-length comedy so devoted to the comedy potential of people pulling silly faces, which might sound like damning with faint praise but face facts: face pulling can be really funny if done right.
26 February 2016
The year is 33AD, and Roman tribune Clavius (Joseph Fiennes) has just returned from supressing Judean rebels when Pontius Pilate (Peter Firth) calls him into his office.
23 February 2016
On the one hand, Deadpool is about as traditional a superhero movie as you can get: it’s the origin story of remorseless killing machine Deadpool, AKA Wade Wilson (Ryan Reynolds), just your regular average gun-for-hire who, after being diagnosed with cancer, underwent an experimental “treatment” (more like torture) at the hands of Ajax (Ed Skrein) that unleashed his mutant powers (he basically can’t be killed) but turned him into a hideous freak.
20 February 2016
The first Ride Along was a surprisingly good (read; it didn’t stink) buddy cop film powered by Kevin Hart’s motor-mouth comedy skills and Ice Cube’s ability to project massive levels of distain.
15 February 2016
Five-year-old Jack (Jacob Tremblay) lives with his mother (Brie Larson) in a room that, we gradually discover, they never leave. Jack doesn’t mind; never having known any different (let alone a haircut) this one windowless room is his entire world.
8 February 2016
Director Danny Boyle and scriptwriter Aaron Sorkin’s take on the Steve Jobs legend – with this the second film on Jobs in five years, “legend” seems right – avoids the traditional format of the earlier Ashton Kutcher-starring Jobs.
7 February 2016
By Hollywood’s explosion-heavy standards, writer/director Todd McCarthy’s Spotlight – which follows the real-life 2001 investigation by the Boston Globe into the Catholic Church’s protection of paedophile priests – seems as close to drama-free as it gets.
