Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter opens in Sydney this week, so this review has been revived. Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter is now showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can grab your tickets here. We shape our reality by our perceptions, and often our world is built around a foundational “truth” that can’t be proven “true”, […]
Category Archives: Film Reviews
April
27
Kumiko, The Treasure Hunter – David Zellner gives us Cohen love. (SFF Film Review)
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April
08
Mommy – Darling Xavier Dolan. (Film Review)
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Mommy is now showing at the Sydney Film Festival You can grab your tickets here I am reposting this review, because it is opening mainstream tomorrow. Don’t miss this exceptional film. It’s scary stuff when a film praised as highly as Xavier Dolan’s Mommy exceeds expectations, but it does, and no matter how many reviews […]
March
31
Dior and I – Frédéric Tcheng and the gentle revolution. (Film review)
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With Dior and I, Frédéric Tcheng creates a documentary that benefits from a little (only a little) close to the biz info. When Raf Simons became the head designer at Dior in 2012, the decision was controversial because of the legacy left by John Galliano, who had transformed the famous fashion house dramatically between 1996 […]
March
30
Love Is Strange – Ira Sachs, love and the abyss. (Film review)
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My review for Love is Strange resides over at The Essential. A scene toward the end of Love is Strange sees protagonists Ben (John Lithgow) and George (Alfred Molina) out on a much-needed date, and makes the bold statement regarding the aesthetic trajectory of writer/director Ira Sachs. The two married men have just attended a […]
March
30
Infinitely Polar Bear – Maya Forbes grasps the infinite real. (Film Review)
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While Maya Forbes’ film is openly autobiographical (it depicts a period in her life when her mother moved out to attend New York Business school and their bipolar father moved in to care for them) it has a broader and very interesting statement to make about economic barriers and the impact that might have on a […]
March
10
Top Five – Chris Rock finding his stride and hitting the mark. (Film Review)
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Top Five is a mish-mash of a Linklater-styled, black culture Before Sunrise set in New York and a schmaltzy rom-com playing by all the hack rules. I have yet to see a film where people wander around a city at night, alone or with a sig-oth that fails – it has to be one of […]
March
09
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him – Ned Benson from his POV. (SFF Film Review)
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This film opens in Sydney this week. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him is currently showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can grab your tickets here. You can read the review of The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigy: Her, here. It seems that Ned Benson writes men better than he writes women, as this version […]
March
09
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her – Ned Benson from her POV.(SFF Film Review)
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This film opens in Sydney this week. The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby – Her is showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can grab your tickets here. The whole Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby project is better appreciated if you retain the idea of subtlety, keeping it as a filter of sorts through which to view […]
March
08
Kingsman: The secret Service – Lets take all the fun out of James Bond, shall we? (Film Review)
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Kingsman: The Secret Service is the first film that had me checking my watch not once, not twice but three times throughout the film, something I’ve not experienced since being forced to sit through X-Men, Days of Future Past. My personal experience of the film was terrible boredom laced with cringeworthy embarrassment for Colin Firth, […]
March
04
That Sugar Film – Damon Gameau goes Spurlock on sugar. (Film Review)
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Check out Damon’s website for lots of info about how to get yourself off sugar. That Sugar Film is the latest Super Size Me style offering, this time from Australian actor Damon Gameau. It’s a documentary similarly styled to the 2004 Morgan Spurlock film that attempts to do to sugar what Spurlock did to McDonald’s, […]
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