Review – The Place Beyond the Pines
This is art-house thriller territory, a three-act epic by the director of the somber Blue Valentine.
Category: Cinema
Review – Snitch
Casual moviegoers may line up at box offices to watch another action movie with The Rock, but this one’s pretty sparse with the explosions and heavy on the plotting and family drama.
Review – Two Lives
Georg Maas’s script is dark and engaging and the film’s depiction of the GDR is terrifyingly believable.
Interview – Benôit Jacquot
We caught up with acclaimed French director Benôit Jacquot to chat about his life in cinema – as a director and a lover.
Review – Artbox presents Poetry in Motion – The Films of Maya Deren
Poetry in Motion is the screening of three silent films by influential 1940s avant garde film maker Maya Deren, with an improvisational trio creating the soundtrack whilst nestled around the venue, peering up at the screen.
Review – FEU
When any red-blooded woman thinks of Christain Louboutin they think shoes. Stilettos, sexy, smoking-hot shoes. When any red-blooded man thinks of the Crazy Horse they think well, they stop thinking.
Review – Farewell My Queen
You’d think that inserting a lesbian love triangle into one of the bloodiest and most turbulent events in French history would result in a gratuitous medley of sex and violence…
Review – Hara-Kiri: Death of a Samurai
This is a remake of 1962 movie, Harakiri. They are both set in seventeenth century Japan, but the new version utilises modern 3D jiggery-pokery to impress contemporary audiences.
Review – Blinder
Considering how obsessed Australia gets about it’s football code, there’s surprising few movies about it.
Review – Metropolis
This low-budget film is not the most thrilling political drama you’ll see, but thanks to believable performances and competent direction it makes for an accessible illustration of city-life in modern San Pablo.
Review – Brazil Film Festival
Great to see this kind of event included in the Fringe Festival, reminding us that there’s more than predominantly white culture sitting on the fringe of Adelaide’s great city.
Review – Safe Haven
Nicholas Sparks’ hit, ‘The Notebook’ has ensured the rest of this novelists’ output earn movie adaptations. Especially since Sparks himself produces them. Following this series risks witnessing the gradual watering down of a well loved romantic hit, but Sparks’ background was in business prior to becoming published. Cha-Ching!
Review – Movie 43
Be warned, don’t bring your grandparents to this movie (unless they’re totally wasted).
Review – Silver Linings Playbook
Everyone likes to hate on rom-coms. And with good reason too. Most films in this genre are suited for people with IQs lower than their age and aimed at ‘holiday’ markets where most movies get decent box office numbers simply because people are going to go see something (read: anything) at the movies. And then, every now and then, out of the blue, almost as if it was made by accident, you get a gem of a movie like Silver Linings Playbook.
Review – Life of Pi
Life of Pi is a an ambitious film. Based on a book by the same name, it was repeatedly described as unfilmable. So who decided to film it? Ang Lee of course. Your average movie buff will recall that Lee has made a career out of surprising viewers with his film choices.
