Yes indeed, Fincher’s long awaited, newly minted adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s wildly popular The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo has finally hit Australian shores. As a fan of the books and the original Swedish film adaptations, this has been a source of much consternation for me since the original announcement. That aside, head on over...
2011 was a strong, diverse year for film. Oh, trust me, I’m not immune to the fact that there were a lot of absolute stinkers (Red Riding Hood, Cowboys and Aliens et al.) However, I’m a glass half-full kind of girl; having watched approximately 85 films this year and reviewed 51, I reckon that’s a...
Director: Steven Spielberg Writers: Steven Moffat, Edgar Wright, and Joe Cornish – based on the comic book series The Adventures of Tintin by Hergé Release Date: 26 December 2011 Rating: (PG) Runtime: 107 mins Adapting The Adventures of Tintin was always going to be a Rubik’s cube (damn near impossible to solve in full), even...
‘One does not simply walk into Mordor…’ Sorry, it had to be done. Yes, nerds, the trailer for Sir Peter Jackson’s long awaited film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Part 1, in case you didn’t know) has arrived: an early Christmas present for many. The first look at Martin Freeman’s Bilbo is certainly worth the...
The 500 Club have started a really cool feature, examining either a scene, a shot, or a moment in a film that in some way defines it as a whole for the audience: such a great idea. To that end, I’ve volunteered my thoughts on the scene between Joe (Joel Courtney) and Alice (Elle Fanning)...
Director: George Clooney Writers: George Clooney, Grant Heslov, & Beau Willimon – based on the play Farragut North by Beau Willimon Release Date: 24 November 2011 Rating: (M) Runtime: 101 mins As a viewer who wasn’t enamoured with Good Night, and Good Luck (2005), Clooney’s fourth directorial effort in feature film elicits a sigh of...
With the Brisbane International Film Festival all wrapped up in a nice, neat package and me back to regular reviewing duties for The 500 Club and RAVE, I thought I’d direct y’all to the reviews completed during the festival. I had such a good time writing for The 500 Club, RAVE, and FILMINK and I’m...
Tonight, we were lucky enough to go along to a preview of the wonderful new Australian film, Burning Man, from Director Jonathan Teplitzky (Gettin’ Square, 2003; Better than Sex, 2000). Stars Matthew Goode and Bojana Novakovic shared an amazing on-screen chemistry and we were truly engrossed in this tale of love, grief, and despair. Challenging...
Director: Matthijs van Heijningen Jr. Release Date: 13 October 2011 Rating: (MA15+) Runtime: 103 mins Recently, there has been a growing trend in remaking films only released a couple of years ago: 2008′s Let the Right One In (Let Me In, 2010), and 2009′s The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (The Girl with the Dragon...
Director: Glenn Ficarra, John Requa Release Date: 29 September 2011 Rating: (M) Runtime: 118 mins There are several defining features that point clearly to Crazy, Stupid, Love being anything but stock-standard. Female we may be, but our loathing for traditional rom-coms runs deep. First and foremost, the end product benefits immeasurably from its high concept...
Director: James Marsh Release Date: 29 September 2011 Rating: (M) Runtime: 93 mins In almost every way, documentaries are tough going: a challenge to drum up funds, difficult to make circumstantially, tricky to judge how the final version will emerge from the editing suite, and hard to sell to distributors and cinemas. It seems vitally...
So, we’ve been moving interstate and must apologise for the rather protracted hiatus. Things are, however, afoot. First: we’ve joined The 500 Club – a most excellent film review blog run out of Brisbane (snickering is verboten!). They’re really into their film (and TV over at The 400 Club) and we’re so happy to have...
