Category: Reviews
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Exodus: Gods And Kings (2014)
Exodus: Gods and Kings has a few visuals that are impressive, but it’s a generic sword and sandals epic that wastes most of its impressive cast.
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Ex Machina (2015)
Ex Machina is great, slow-building tech thriller with a chilling conclusion to the story and features three up and coming actors.
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Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015)
Age of Ultron brings more action and character and story, but it’s all weighed down a bit too much by having to service so many characters.
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While We’re Young (2015)
Noah Baumbach is a director who tends to run hot or cold for me. I have not seen all of his filmography, having missed out on his mid-2000s works The Squid and the Whale and Margot at the Wedding. Kicking and Screaming, considered to be a 90s classic, did nothing…
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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970)
I’m not quite sure why, but I didn’t realize that Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion was a satire until nearly the end of the film. Perhaps it was just that I had no real knowledge of it heading into viewing it other than the basic plot, that it was…
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Son of a Gun (2014)
There have been quite a few good-to-great gritty Aussie crime dramas that have come out the last few years. Following in the line of The Square (2008), Animal Kingdom (2010), and The Rover (2014), Son of a Gun is a well-told tale of crime from a first time director, Julius…
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The Red Balloon (1956)
The Red Balloon is a short film from 1956 that runs for slightly more than 30 minutes, but is one of the most delightful 30 minutes of cinema I have experienced. Set in 1950s Paris, it tells a story of a relationship between a boy and his red balloon. It…
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West Side Story (1961)
Musicals are not my favorite genre of film, in fact, they may be my least favorite. Having said that, I have been trying to make an effort to see some of the classics and approach them with an open mind. Similarly, I was not a fan of the western genre…
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Furious 7 (2015)
Like many of the action stunts that have occurred during its seven film run, the trajectory of the Fast & Furious franchise is defying belief. Nobody imagined at its inception, when it started as a not-so-subtle rip-off of Point Break that substituted fast cars for surfboards, that it would spawn…
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