comedy
Barbie Review
After months of “Barbenheimer” hype – the aptly named event referencing the dual-release of Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer on the same day – Barbie finally releases this week in all her pastel glory. Warner Bros. Pictures and Director/Writer Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) are hoping that this film based on the 1950’s fashion doll and cultural icon will delight fans of all generat...
Frank and Frank Review
Author, musician and filmmaker, Adam Morris has followed up his debut feature EDWARD AND ISABELLA (2022). The film won Best Film at the WA Screen Culture Awards, Best Feature Film at the Prague International Film Festival and Best Director at the Tokyo Film Awards. He has completed his second feature FRANK AND FRANK (or The Valley and The Walrus: Ruminations on the Mystery from Soup to Nuts). The ...
No Hard Feelings Review
No Hard Feelings is Sony Pictures latest “raunchy” comedy from the mind of director/writer Gene Stupnitsky (Good Boys & Bad Teacher). With a trailer promising a plethora of foul language, sexual references and full-frontal nudity, here’s hoping Stupnitsky can go 3 for 3 and deliver another laugh-out-loud comedy. Facing the imminent loss of her beloved childhood home in Montauk, Long Island, 32...
Bank of Dave Review
BANK OF DAVE is probably best described as a double rom com: two love stories, unfolding at the same time. The first love story is pretty familiar: sad-lawyer-boy Hugh (Joe Fry) meets idealistic-doctor-girl Dr Alexandra (Phoebe Dynevor). Sparks fly: first the angry sort, then the love sort. It’s a sweet little rom com. Decidedly heart-warming, whilst managing to dodge some of the more cliché plot ...
Renfield Review
Universal Pictures and director Chris McKay, (The LEGO Batman Movie), invite you to suck on Renfield. A modern kind of sequel to 1931’s Dracula, yes, that one with Bela Lugosi. In short, it’s pretty fun, it doesn’t suck! Renfield stars Nicholas Hoult as the titular ghoul and Nicholas Cage as the infamous count, both of whom need no introduction. The film acts as a situation comedy first, action ho...
Book Club: The Next Chapter Review
The four 70-something women of BOOK CLUB (2018) return in BOOK CLUB: THE NEXT CHAPTER. Vivian (Jane Fonda), Diane (Diane Keaton) Sharon (Candice Bergen) and Carol (Mary Steenburgen) are still in the book club they established 45 years ago. The movie begins with the challenge of Covid-19 forcing the quartet to shelter in place and go through the uncertainty of that process. The book club goes on Zo...
Polite Society Review
Part coming of age teen drama and part action thriller, Polite Society, the debut film from writer-director Nida Manzoor, is a must-see this year. Rich in allusions to cult classics like Kill Bill, Get Out, The Matrix and Scott Pilgrim vs the World, it’s packed full of relatable family drama, witty one-liners, dynamic cinematography and well-oiled fight scenes. With such a packed dance card of gen...
The Super Mario Bros. Movie Review
The Super Mario Bros. Movie warped into cinemas this week, hoping to surpass the video game movie adaptations that have come before it. The Super Mario Bros. Movie is the latest family animated feature by Illumination Entertainment (Despicable Me franchise) and Universal Studios. With the current nostalgia craze, and the Super Nintendo World Universal theme parks rapidly opening up around the glob...
Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Review
Paramount Pictures rolls the dice with its new fantasy adventure film – Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Directing/writing duo John Francis Daley & Jonathan Goldstein (Game Night) are hoping to capitalise on the massive success of the role playing game, and although this isn’t the first attempt at adapting the tabletop game onto the silver screen, Paramount is hoping it will ...
Shazam! Fury of the Gods Review
Warner Bros. Pictures’ latest epic DC superhero flick is out – Shazam! Fury of the Gods – the sequel to the criminally underrated Shazam! (2019). After an unfortunate run of box office failures over the past few years, Warner Bros. is hoping to recapture the magic of the first Shazam! film to give themselves a much needed win. This time around Billy Batson (Asher Angel) and his s...
Cocaine Bear Review
Elizabeth Banks (Pitch Perfect 2) returns to the directing chair, four years after her less than stellar Charlie’s Angels reboot. This time, it’s to tell the (I can’t believe I’m typing this) true story of Cocaine Bear – a black bear who ingests pounds of cocaine in a national forest in Georgia, sending it on a hilariously drug-fueled, murderous rampage. I thought Cocaine Bear would ju...
Spoiler Alert Review
Spoiler Alert: stories of good men dying young will always make you cry, but sometimes they can leave audiences looking for more. It feels oddly harsh to critique Michael Showalter’s Spoiler Alert as it is based on a true story of the same name, written by Michael Ausiello. It tells the story of how he lost his husband to cancer, and follows their relationship from its inception, through their gro...