Both intimate and epic, realistic and stylized, The Daughter is the shattering Australian masterpiece we’ve been waiting for.
Angry Birds Film Announces Absurdly Large Budget
This week it came out that Angry Birds: The Movie will be the most expensive film ever made in Finland, a crucial element in their Marvel-esque content strategy.
Big Eyes
Tim Burton’s BIG EYES, his first Depp-less film in years, is a well-intentioned but ineffectual jaunt starring Amy Adams as artist Margaret Keane.
Ghostbusters Studio Announces “For Men” Sequel
A male-oriented reboot of the GHOSTBUSTERS franchise was announced today, supposedly to “complement” the all-female sequel announced last year.
Paper Planes
This quaint Aussie kids film may have chosen the worst ‘sport’ to take to the big screen but its impeccable cast keeps it endearing and enjoyable.
You Have to See… Velvet Goldmine (dir. Todd Haynes, 1998)
In this week’s You Have To See… we look at the iconoclastic Todd Haynes’ glam rock tribute, VELVET GOLDMINE.
Interstellar
Christopher Nolan’s obsession with bringing his ambitious space epic down to earth ends up damaging it beyond forgiveness.
These Final Hours
With a script, characters and half-baked philosophy that go absolutely nowhere, These Final Hours is a complete misfire of a project that took its unusually strong publicity for an Australian film from more deserving candidates.
David Lynch makes his Criterion debut
The reveal of the next batches of releases by specialty home entertainment label The Criterion Collection is always a reason to celebrate but this announcement for the still-far off September releases is particularly exciting for a couple of reasons
20,000 Days on Earth
This cross section of Nick Cave’s life in both this world and his own is an utterly mesmerizing meditation on creation and memory.