4 February 2016
Jason Kelly (Zac Efron) is a week away from getting married when his recently widowed grandfather (Robert DeNiro) asks him to drive him down to Florida to play golf. Surprise! Grandpa is really looking to party hard and Jason – the most uptight man alive – is along for the ride.
29 January 2016
When New York teen Zach (Dylan Minnette) and his newly-widowed mum (Amy Ryan) relocate to the suburbs of Delaware, they find themselves next door to a big old spooky house where instant love interest Hannah (Odeya Rush) is kept under lock and key by her creepy dad (Jack Black).
27 January 2016
Dystopian teen fiction has reached a stage where the only thing that separates one series from another is the surface details.
25 January 2016
Who would have thought the most scathing film about the Global Financial Crisis would come from a director best known for the Anchorman films? Based on Michael Lewis’ book The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, this focuses on the handful of money men who, leading up to the GFC, saw the crash coming.
21 January 2016
Quentin Tarantino’s latest film is full of the things he does best: sudden violence, self-satisfied dialogue, powerhouse performances and a lot of the n-word.
16 January 2016
The secret behind making a good trashy movie is that it has to be both trashy and good. While the first Point Break managed to be both, this remake seems to have largely taken its cues from various extreme sport marketing videos where the focus is on how awesome the stunts are rather than having any kind of fun with them.
14 January 2016
Tina Fey and Amy Poehler have great chemistry together – it’s pretty much the saving grace of their first film Baby Mama.
11 January 2016
The alarm bells started ringing when Daddy’s Home (which re-teams The Other Guys stars Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg) was rated PG.
9 January 2016
For the psychedelic lovers out there, we’ve found your next big thing with Sydney psych-rock trio the Walking Who.
8 January 2016
There’s a lot of like about The Revenant, a harsh tale of survival circa 1823 where frontiersman Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) struggles against impossible odds – well, an Indian attack followed by being mauled by a bear and then fellow survivor John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy) leaves him to die, only he doesn’t, which is bad news for John.
25 December 2015
Remember how, earlier this year, Pixar made pretty much the ultimate Pixar film in Inside Out? Well, this is pretty much the opposite of that.
24 December 2015
For the last 10 years three friends – Ethan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Isaac (Seth Rogen) and Chris (Anthony Mackie) – have spent the night before Christmas partying hard to take Ethan’s mind off his dead parents.
23 December 2015
It’s the 1920s, and Einar Wegener (Eddie Redmayne) is the toast of Copenhagen’s artistic scene. His wife Gerda (Alicia Vikander), also a painter, asks him to model a dress for one of her works, and gradually he begins to spend more and more time living as a woman named Lili.
22 December 2015
The fight for women’s right to vote – or “suffrage” – took different forms all over the world, but in the United Kingdom in the years before World War One, a lengthy struggle with little progress led to a growing radicalisation of the movement – which is a tricky thing to dramatise.
20 December 2015
If there’s one thing that can be said about the movies we saw in 2015, it’s that there was a lot to choose from.
11 December 2015
More a Rocky reboot than a sequel, by focusing on a new fighter with his own issues – while largely sticking firm to the traditional Rocky formula – Creed revitalises the series by putting a new spin on the old clichés.
10 December 2015
Like all major holidays, Christmas is a time for movies where a whole lot of people have individual stories that may or may not come together for a big rousing conclusion. Love, Actually has had the holiday to itself for far too long; now it’s time for the extended Cooper family to stake their claim.
10 December 2015
Not so much a follow-up as a new angle on Joshua Oppenheimer’s harrowing examination of the Indonesian anti-communist massacres of 1965, The Act of Killing.
8 December 2015
If you’ve ever wondered exactly how to make a story about a couples’ low-key marriage woes actually watchable – if for no other reason than to sell that secret to the ABC to spice up their “quality dramas” – By the Sea has it sorted. Just make sure the couple is insanely good-looking.
7 December 2015
Thirteen years ago, Ray (Chiwetel Ejiofor) was a member of a L.A. anti-terrorism task force frantically trying to prevent another 9/11.
6 December 2015
Some studios – we’re looking at you, Pixar – make kids movies that are aimed more at what adults think kids want to see.
4 December 2015
The Lance Armstrong story is one of the more compelling in recent sporting history, and while Stephen Frears biopic largely sticks to the surface facts, that’s more than enough to paint a startling picture of ego run amok.
2 December 2015
If you don’t know what’s going on by now you never will.
23 November 2015
Perhaps the most impressive thing about Freeheld – the based-on-a-true-story tale of a New Jersey cop (Julianne Moore) who, when diagnosed with terminal cancer, was not allowed to transfer her pension to her partner (Ellen Page) – is the many angles it finds to make an audience cry.
