Reviews

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Birdman Review

What is BIRDMAN about you ask? Well. It’s hard to explain properly without giving it away. Hmm. So here goes.  Hollywood actor Riggan Thomson (Michael...

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Paper Planes Review

Twelve-year-old Dylan (Ed Oxenbould) lives in country Australia. When a teacher challenges the class to design paper airplanes for a local competition...

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Unbroken Review

Unbroken, the much talked about film helmed by Angelina Jolie, is hitting Australian cinemas this week. This is the true story (based on a book) of Lo...

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Taken 3

TAKEN 2 was perhaps the biggest disappointment of my life thus far (OK…that’s a slight overstatement, but it was a huge let down).  When the trailer c...

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Mr Turner

As someone who has studied art history, I was intrigue and looking forward to seeing Mr Turner. A film which focuses on the life of the greatly revere...

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The Water Diviner Review

THE WATER DIVINER is a drama about Australian Joshua Connor (Russell Crowe) who farms in the Mallee, Victoria in the early years of the 20th century. ...

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Annie Review

ANNIE, the feature film adapted from the 1977 Broadway musical, which in turn is an adaptation of the Great Depression-era comic strip Little Orphan A...

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Big Hero 6 Review

Hiro Hamada is a fourteen-year-old boy who lives in San Fransokyo. Hiro loves robot fighting and has created a brilliant microbot that can do great da...

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The Imitation Game Review

English mathematician and logician, Alan Turing, helps crack the Enigma code during World War II. The Imitation Game comes from author Andrew Hodges’s...

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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies Review

The Company of Thorin has reached the Lonely Mountain, but can Bilbo and the Dwarves reclaim Erebor and the treasure? And, if so, can they hold onto i...

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St. Vincent Review

Maggie (Melissa McCarthy), a newly single mother, tries to raise her eleven-year-old son Oliver (Jaeden Lieberher) in a new neighbourhood, however her...

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Finding Vivian Maier

In 2009, the work of street photographer Vivian Maier began to show up online. The images were scanned from negatives that were in the possession of C...

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Paddington

Paddington Bear was hugely popular during its heyday on television, and has had a massive loyal following ever since the bear made his debut in a 1950...

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Exodus: Gods and Kings Review

Exodus: Gods and Kings has finally arrived on Australian shores with much hype and controversy over the lead actors. I’ll address the controversy late...

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Men, Women & Children Review

MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN is set in Austin, Texas, and tells the intersecting stories of a group of parents and their teenage children. The adults fee...

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Horrible Bosses 2 Review

Dale, Kurt and Nick decide to start their own business but things don’t go as planned because of a slick investor, prompting the trio to pull of...

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Nightcrawler Review

When we first meet Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) we learn quickly that he is a scavenger and a liar. He is also a positive thinker with a level of self-...

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The Drop Review

In Brooklyn, there is a series of “drop bars” where the illegal money from criminal jobs can be left. The person running the bar doesn’t know how much...

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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1 Review

Katniss Everdeen may have survived two Hunger Games, but can she survive a third film? I remember going to see the first HUNGER GAMES movie:  The medi...

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Interstellar Review

A group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved ...