Phil Jeng Kane

Daphne (Shailene Woodley) ends a long-term relationship with Adrian (Matthew Gray Gubler) and ends up moving in with her married sister, the sister’s husband and their child. Daphne sets up in their pool-house. She’s in her early 30s and feels at a loss about her purpose and direction. She had employment but has lost her job. Her relationship with her mother (Wendie Malick) is prickly. Emotionally...

HG Wells’ 1897 science fiction novel THE INVISIBLE MAN introduced the world to the idea that human beings could use science to make themselves invisible. An inventor called Griffin discovers this power and it slowly drives him to insanity and murder. In writer/director Leigh Whannel’s current film adaptation of the novel, the character Adrian Griffin (Oliver Jackson-Cohen) is a world leader in the...

BOMBSHELL is a re-telling of the events that ended the career of the late Roger Ailes, the Chairman and CEO of Fox News and further redefined the public’s understanding of sexual harassment in the workplace. Ailes was fired in 2016, when it was revealed there were more than 20 sexual harassment cases against him. The most high-profile of these was the lawsuit filed by former Fox Anchor, Gretchen C...

Tough, super-fit JJ (Dave Bautista) is ex-special forces. Even though he is now a CIA operative, he tends to solve problems in the field using force rather than finesse. He ends up killing all the bad guys in a mission that was supposed to lead the CIA to a criminal gang who have a nuclear device. Now they have no leads. That mission is taken away from him as the CIA team heads to Europe. JJ must ...

The name and icon that is Ned Kelly looms large over the last 140 years of Australian history. He was a bushranger who committed crimes and was imprisoned, but who gained popular support for his actions. His life and death has been turned into the stuff of legend, ready to be repurposed and turned to any cause or idea that anyone desires. The image of Ned Kelly in his armour can be used to sell an...

In Sam Mendes’ new film 1917, it is early in the title-year. What we now call World War 1 has been unfolding since the latter half of 1914. The Western Front is the main theatre of war and stretches from the North Sea, through France and Belgium to the Swiss Border. The Allied Powers, France, United Kingdom and Belgium conflict with the German Empire and Austria-Hungary. Millions of casualties hav...

Kate (Emilia Clarke) is a young woman living a very scattered and disorganised existence. She is couch-surfing amongst her circle of friends and her selfish behaviour means she isn’t the ideal house guest. She could go home to her parents, but she is avoiding family confrontation. Her position at work is sometimes precarious because she isn’t the most conscientious of employees. She is rather lost...

TERMINATOR:DARK FATE is the sixth film in the Terminator movie franchise. James Cameron, the originator of the concept, the co-writer and director of THE TERMINATOR (1984) and TERMINATOR 2 (1991) has returned to the fold as producer, after having no direct involvement in the creation of the third, fourth and fifth movies. Mexico City, 2020. Within a 24-hour period, first, a super-soldier, Grace (M...

Henry Brogan (Will Smith) realises his days as an assassin for the US government are drawing to an end. He believes he is not as physically and mentally as capable as he used to be and more tellingly, he doesn’t feel he could handle the job with the psychological and emotional detachment he had as a younger man. As he prepares for his retirement, he discovers he is under surveillance. It becomes c...