Monika Keri

In the 1960s, the Krays were notorious gangster brothers in England. They were often celebrated by the media and treated as stars by the public until their incarceration. Legend covers their life from 1964 as the brothers (Tom Hardy) were battling a bloody turf war with the Richardson gang. In order to conquer, they expanded their empire by forming an alliance with the Vegas Mafia in the hopes of ...

The Intern introduces us to a 70 year old recently widowed Ben Whittaker, who decides the best way to keep painful memories away is by keeping himself busy. Soon, he takes the plunge and applies for a senior internship at an online fashion site. Finding himself in a completely different work environment than what he was used to prior to retirement. He gets assigned to the founder of the company, J...

Everest depicts the real life disaster which occurred between the 10th and 11th of May 1996, when eight people were caught in a blizzard and died on Mount Everest during summit attempts. Making it the deadliest day and the deadliest year on Everest until 2014. This film presents the lead up to the events which were partially caused by violent storms that hit the groups trying to summit. It is set ...

After the official trailers were released, many were ready to write off We Are Your Friends as rubbish. Having DJ friends, being a regular in Los Angeles and on the Hollywood scene, I was intrigued to see how the story played out. So, is it as bad as people were predicting it to be? The main character is Cole Carter (Zac Efron), whose dream is to hit the big time in Hollywood as a disc jockey. He ...

This year we have seen a number of great Blumhouse Productions and New Line Cinema releases. This week their latest has hit Australian screens. The Gallows follows a group of high school teenagers during their night-time break in to their school to destroy a theatre stage. The opening scene introduces Charlie and quickly shows his death during a high school play. Fast forward two decades later and...

Magic Mike XXL is here. So does it live up to all the hype the studio has put out there?  Let’s face it, not a lot of people care about its plot, the cinematography or the acting, so I’ll keep this review as light and as tongue in cheek as it should be. Mr Magic Mike himself has got what he strived for – his own furniture design business, but as it happens, not everything has gone as smoothl...

Terminator Genisys has arrived with a lot of hype and expectations. The film opens in 2029 where civilisation had ended in an apocalyptic battle between the humans and robots. John Connor (Jason Clarke) leads the war against the oppressive robots with the last of the human race. During the final battle, he is notified that the robots are planning on attacking the past and the future via Skynet. Th...

The movies takes place on a computer screen of high schooler Blaire, who is watching a clip of her old friend killing herself. She stops when her boyfriend messages her. Soon she starts skyping with her other friends Adam, Ken, Jess, Val and boyfriend Mitch. It also happens to be the one-year anniversary of the death of another friend – Laura Barnes, who committed suicide over a humiliating ...

Age of Adaline is an intriguing film that combines romance, drama and fantasy. So does it work? We meet Adaline Bowman (Blake Lively), an unassuming 29 year old young librarian. Though soon we find out that through a freak accident in the 1930s, she has stopped aging for over eight decades. She is forced to live a lonely life of solitude in order to keep her secret and family safe. This all starts...

Nicolas Sparks fans rejoice, here comes another “critic proof” film adaption of one of his novels. The Longest Ride is set in North Carolina, where Sophia (Britt Robertson), an ambitious art student hell bent on getting out of NC, meets handsome Luke (Scott Eastwood, yes he is the son of who you think), a modern-day cowboy striving to become the number one bull rider in the world. Despite what it ...

Cinderella has been given the live action treatment a number of times since she originally appeared. So how does the 2015 version of Cinderella fair? At this point, it would be safe to say that most of us know the story of Cinderella. Young Ella (Lily James) unexpectedly loses her father, resulting in her having no family left other than her cruel stepmother (Cate Blanchett) and dim witted stepsis...

Second instalment in the Divergent series has been unleashed. Insurgent picks up where Divergent left off. This time Tris (Shailene Woodley), Four (Theo James), Caleb, (Ansel Elgort), and Peter (Miles Teller) are hiding out within the Amity faction, while Jeanine (Kate Winslet) resumes hunting them after they defeated her plan to destroy Abnegation. Jeanine uses Dauntless, without mind control, to...