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Canopy | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Canopy is writer/director Aaron Wilson's first-person take on the sensory experience of being lost at war. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Prisoners | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Prisoners is a devastating ordeal through the Villeneuve's impressionistic prism. It's a testament to all involved that you want to revisit the ugliness of the story for the artistry of its construction. | 4.5/5 | 5 | 4.5 | 5 | true | 9 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The Fifth Estate | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | The Fifth Estate is Woodward VS Bernstein. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | true | 7 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Bait | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | It fundamentally frightens that something so bad could exist | 0.5/5 | 5 | 0.5 | 5 | true | 1 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Trouble with the Curve | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Randy Brown's script is a luddite fantasy that has Eastwood grumbling and telling technology to get off his baseball diamond... | 1.5/5 | 5 | 1.5 | 5 | true | 3 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Ain't Them Bodies Saints | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Lowery's beautiful Ain't Them Bodies Saints is about sometimes letting go of who you are for a second chance to be who you to want to be. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The Dictator | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | The Dictator is a slogan t-shirt movie. It's funny momentarily; but tiresome, boring and flat out infantile the longer that you're forced to stare at it. | 1/5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | true | 2 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Apocalypse Now | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | With a famously horrific and documentary inspiring shoot it's almost unfathomable how Francis Ford Coppolla managed to harness the chaotic energy into one of the most potent examinations of war and masculinity to ever grace celluloid. | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | true | 10 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Jackass Presents: Bad Grandpa | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Bad Grandpa is to Jackass what Borat is to Ali G. The gag is far less about Irving and his grandson; it's relishing in how they antagonise and perplex their unwilling support cast. It's juvenile, it's ridiculous but I laughed, a lot. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The Act Of Killing | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Documentary cinema has a new apex. | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | true | 10 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
God Bless America | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | God Bless America opens strong but finishes with a preachy bludgeoning. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | true | 6 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
A Separation | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | A Separation infuses a great insight into modern Iran with a powerful insight into the human condition - this demonstrates the power and poetic potential of cinematic drama. It's a MUST see. | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | true | 10 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
50/50 | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | 50/50 is funny, sweet, moving, well acted and touching story of friendship. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The Interview | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | The Interview is all bromance and no bite, all dick jokes and no penetrating satire. Sorry Seth and Evan; Trey and Matt did it. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | true | 5 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
What to Expect When You're Expecting | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Abort. | 0/5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | true | 0 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Get Hard | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Get Hard is like a flaccid dick standing with the assistance of two splints; Ferrell and Hart. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | true | 5 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Hysteria | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Hysteria is a clever satire about the birth of the world's most popular sex toy, and despite some clunky rom-com plot devices it was refreshing to see a film subvert period film stuffiness with a barrage of vagina humour. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | true | 6 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
How I Live Now | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | How I Live Now could have been called 'Tomorrow When The War Began in rural England and my cousins and I decided to live a hippy rural existence until sh*t got real'; but that would have been far too literal. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | true | 6 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
American History X | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | American History X advocates that "those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it"? It's a powerful social document and should be part of your film watching curriculum. | 4.5/5 | 5 | 4.5 | 5 | true | 9 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Not Suitable for Children | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Not Suitable For Children is a refreshingly solid and raw Australian 'dramedy' that delivers poignant characters and relieving laughs while highlighting our fragile and absurdly fleeting existence. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Cold in July | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Cold in July is sumptuous dark fable about duty, filled with outstanding performances and energised by an amazing score. It's the kind of strange ride that requires you to surrender. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | true | 7 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Django Unchained | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | it's fitting that one of the greatest American filmmakers of all time is using the western and blaxploitation genres to connect the enduring blemish on the American psyche - only to set loose a bad motherf*cker to set it right. | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | true | 10 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The Unknown Known | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | The Unknown Known doesn't paint Rumsfeld into the Shakespearean archetype that Morris intended; instead he toed the company line. This documentary has Rumsfeld winning on points. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | true | 7 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The Hunger Games | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | The phenomenal cast with great chemistry and sincere authentic performances from the older actors empowers the material. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Rise of the Planet of the Apes | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | If you're a fan of the series, you'll love it; if you're not a fan it may make you one. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | true | 7 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Only Lovers Left Alive | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | There's not a wasted second, no imperfectly conceived moments. Like the characters, it feels eternal. | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | true | 10 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
X-Men: Days of Future Past | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | ... the return of the franchise's prodigal son, Bryan Singer, and Oscar winning screenwriter Simon Kinberg adapting one of the defining X-Men comic arcs; the stars have aligned for the X-Men's answer to The Avengers. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Reaching for the Moon | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Reaching for the Moon is the shamefully unpoetic... | 1/5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | true | 2 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Terminator Genisys | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Terminator Genisys is fine. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | true | 4 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Locke | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Thanks to Knight's direction, precise scripting and Tom Hardy's formidable talent, Locke is an emotionally devastating time capsule of a man riding the wave of his life collapsing. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
A Most Violent Year | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Chandor conceives of a devilishly indeterminate tale that in one way goes to affirm that stereotype while challenging the audience with the inherent greed that invariably rears its head as you peel away the layers. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The Gambler | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | The Gambler is about the lure to triumph over potential disaster and finding a way to "treat those two imposters the same." | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Alex Cross | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Alex Cross is clumsily directed, poorly acted, and shoddily scripted to the point that with the right crowd you may find yourself laughing at the all the things wrong with it. | 1/5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | true | 2 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Hemingway & Gellhorn | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Hemingway and Gellhorn suffers because the story of a woman not wanting to be the footnote in her partner's career, whose message inadvertently becomes the footnote in a meandering mess of a biopic. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | true | 4 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Amour | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Amour is harrowing, emotional, thrilling, intense, beautiful, tragic, and powerful cinema. | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | true | 10 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The Thomas Crown Affair | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | The Thomas Crown Affair is the perfect defence for why films could and should be remade for new generations. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | true | 7 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Chef | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | While Chef doesn't totally reach the heights of Favreau's best work, it bursts with passion. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | true | 7 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation is exceptionally made, insane fun and the best this series has to offer and then some. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Bernie | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Bernie is dark, unique satire heightened by blurring lines between truth and fiction and just about the funniest film I've seen this year. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The Bourne Legacy | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | The Bourne Legacy disgraces the family name | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | true | 4 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The Cabin in the Woods | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | The Cabin in the Woods does for horror what Annie Hall did for the romantic comedy. | 4.5/5 | 5 | 4.5 | 5 | true | 9 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Entourage | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | I believe Confucius once said: a change in aspect ratio does not a movie make. | 1/5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | true | 2 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Killer Joe | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Killer Joe is America at its worst but Friedkin and McConaghey at very close to their best. | 4.5/5 | 5 | 4.5 | 5 | true | 9 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Le passé (The Past) | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | The Past doesn't have the thrilling tempo of Farhadi's previous Oscar winning A Separation; but it's as if you're cemented into concrete boots and tossed into the chasm of consequence. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The Giver | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | It gives a little and doesn't take a lot. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | true | 5 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The Watch | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | The Watch doesn't totally know what it is - but that doesn't matter. It's entertaining, silly fun, if you like gaggles of fools stumbling upon alien invasions and d*ck jokes. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | true | 5 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Looper | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Will render any blubbering sci-fi fan speechless. | 4.5/5 | 5 | 4.5 | 5 | true | 9 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Taken 3 | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | In the wake of Taken 2 and 3 we're completely sober to the fact that this veteran vengeance porn has become its own parody. | 1.5/5 | 5 | 1.5 | 5 | true | 3 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The Monuments Men | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | The Monuments Men is a collection of beautiful, individual cinematic moments, instead of the defining tapestry of an incredible story. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | true | 7 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The Dark Knight | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | The glimpse into the Joker's darkness during his documented torture scene is a credit to the devastatingly lost potential of Heath Ledger. | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | true | 10 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
R.I.P.D. | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | R.I.P.D may look like something that you've seen before (and you kind of have) but with deft direction, the primal allure of redemption and lightning pace; prepare for a surprisingly entertaining ride. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | true | 7 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
This Means War | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Overall, this is solid date night fare. You would be disappointed that you spent the time or money but you'll never need to see this film again. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | true | 6 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Warrior | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Warrior is an ode to valour-ruined men, in war, in peace, in the octagon. | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | true | 10 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Lawless | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Lawless is by no means a bad film, it's just a recipe with great ingredients that didn't fully deliver. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | true | 5 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The Russian Woodpecker | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Documentary cinema rarely feels this immediate and relevant. The Russian Woodpecker sounds a lot like a canary whistling from the coal mine to me. | 4.5/5 | 5 | 4.5 | 5 | true | 9 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The World's End | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Edgar Wright's finale to the Cornetto Trilogy's The World's End is finally upon us and it's a suitably poetic and conclusive last call for Simon Pegg and Nick Frost's 'man-child' dynamic duo. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Twilight Breaking Dawn Part 2 is an unredeemable waste of time and money. Like the vampire characters it's utterly lifeless and yet by that monstrous twist of fate - it exists. | 0/5 | 5 | 0 | 5 | true | 0 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The Railway Man | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | The Railway Man will leave a mark on your soul, not only for the brutal barbarity of war but for the sheer power of screen stories. | 5/5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | true | 10 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | This is Stiller's pièce de résistance. | 4.5/5 | 5 | 4.5 | 5 | true | 9 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Still Alice | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Still Alice is as powerful as it is crushing. Ms. Moore delivers a performance that will endure. | 4.5/5 | 5 | 4.5 | 5 | true | 9 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Frankenweenie | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Frankenweenie is Burton harnessing the lightning of his early career; stitching it to the films he loves and bringing it back to life | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The Sitter | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | The Sitter is a pretty funny, absurdist 'worst babysitter ever' story that gives glimpses of serious commentary disguised by dick jokes and the David Gordon Green Pineapple Express & Your Highness ethos - without ever surpassing it's predecessors. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | true | 4 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The Five-Year Engagement | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | I would have preferred to spend five years in the dungeon in Silence of the Lambs...putting the lotion on the skin...before I get the hose again. | 1/5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | true | 2 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The Homesman | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | The Homesman is a moving expose of the suffrage of isolation and piety disguising the horrors of pioneer life. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The Gatekeepers | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | THE GATEKEEPERS doesn't want to function in binaries, it immerses you into the moral and ethical 'grey' quandary of Israel/Palestine. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Cosmopolis | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Cosmopolis uses Packer (Pattinson) to trivialise money, dismisses the struggling poor and reveals those in the throes of money for the sociopaths that they are. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | true | 7 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Les Misérables | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Hooper's Les Miserables is a game changer. Cinematic musicals won't pass muster unless they're aiming for this new gold standard. | 4.5/5 | 5 | 4.5 | 5 | true | 9 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Blackfish | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Really great documentaries are like zeitgeist napalm; and Blackfish carries the torch. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Carnage | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Carnage is neatly directly, sharply scripted and outstandingly performed drama. It's voyeuristic, it's relevant and it's hilarious. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
August: Osage County | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Letts' script attracted actors of the highest calibre, Wells fostered brilliance from Streep and Roberts (and the whole cast really). It's not easy to watch a family implode but August: Osage County shows us that some families need to. | 4.5/5 | 5 | 4.5 | 5 | true | 9 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief is yet another entry into Alex Gibney's incredible resume of consistently objective and powerful documentary films. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The Artist | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | It's a screaming endorsement to the power of cinema... without saying a word. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Beyond The Reach | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Beyond the Reach is a messy patchwork of potential, but the conclusion takes such a leap into the totally batshit that you're kind of left asking; 'what the hell did I just watch?!?' | 1/5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | true | 2 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Hercules | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Johnson's greatest foe isn't written in mythology, the Rock's unstoppable force met the immovable object of the franchise killer Brett (I nearly ruined Hannibal Lector and the X-Men) Ratner. | 2/5 | 5 | 2 | 5 | true | 4 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Safe House | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | This is Ryan Reynolds best performance that I've seen since Van Wilder and the wonderful, iconic, legendary Denzel Washington getting screen time and playing the 'badass character' that we love to see him play. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | true | 7 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
To The Wonder | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | To the Wonder feels like a caricature coveting Malick's previously towering pieces of visual art. However there's more refined, contemplative poetry in this relative misstep than in a hundred Hollywood studio films. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | true | 6 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Liberal Arts | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Liberal Arts is about going back in time in order to move forward. In so many moments Radnor could have taken disturbing and frustrating turns - and yet it's resistance and maturity saved it. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | true | 7 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Neighbors | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Bad Neighbours is worth your time for Byrne's potty mouth, Rogen's hairy back and watching Franco and Efron profess their (brotherly) love for each other. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | true | 6 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
John Carter | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | John Carter is for fans of pure, joyous, escapist, adventure cinema. Seeing John Carter unfamiliar with the text; it's very clear that the original text has influenced a hell of a lot of Sci-fi flicks that we've seen before. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Exodus: Gods and Kings | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Exodus: Gods and Kings is dark, spiritually incongruous and damn good. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Battleship | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Battleship is an unapologetic marriage between a Sci-Fi & Navy/Military geek's wet dream...It's a buttery, American triumphalist, generic, fluffy, cinematic popcorn escapism. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | true | 5 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The Skeleton Twins | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | The Skeleton Twins is beautiful, infectious and painfully honest in a way that's normally reserved for someone that you shared a womb with. | 4.5/5 | 5 | 4.5 | 5 | true | 9 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The Expendables 2 | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | The Expendables 2 is that 80s mothers milk, fortified (and aged) into whiskey - and it's a fun to drink in with friends. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | true | 7 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The Other Son | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | The Other Son is a hopeful, affective humanistic drama; infused with the incalculable weight of ideology and history. | 4.5/5 | 5 | 4.5 | 5 | true | 9 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Man on a Ledge | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | It's pulp, airport fiction - the acting is mediocre, the characters are formulaic archetypes... but I didn't feel as if my time was wasted at all. | 2.5/5 | 5 | 2.5 | 5 | true | 5 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
The Judge | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | The Judge picked me apart in ways that I wasn't prepared for. | 4.5/5 | 5 | 4.5 | 5 | true | 9 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Insidious: Chapter 2 | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | INSIDIOUS: Chapter Two has a good cache of scares; a necessary injection of mystery and despite small doses of clunky performances and scripting it's a rare, high quality horror sequel. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | true | 6 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Beasts of the Southern Wild | 2UE That Movie Show | Blake Howard | Beasts of the Southern Wild is a sublime, dark, audacious, modern fairy tale. And it's all the more exciting that it's the premiere of a rare talent of filmmaker Ben Zeitlin. See it, get lost in the wilderness. | 4/5 | 5 | 4 | 5 | true | 8 | 11 | 2 | 0 |
Mary Magdalene | 3AW | Jim Schembri | A beautiful bore. | 1.5/5 | 5 | 1.5 | 5 | true | 3 | 11 | 2 | 1 |
Churchill | 3AW | Jim Schembri | A deeply etched portrait of a man forced by duty to rise above his own ego to serve his nation as its moral figurehead. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | true | 6 | 11 | 2 | 1 |
Banksy Does New York | 3AW | Jim Schembri | Very enjoyable documentary following the fun-filled month the secretive street art collective known as Banksy spent spreading its works across New York city...a fun ride. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | true | 6 | 11 | 2 | 1 |
Step Up: All In | 3AW | Jim Schembri | As with the previous Step Up films, there's very little to dislike here. The filmmakers know what their loyal audiences want - and it's not great acting but loads and loads of...street dancing. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | true | 6 | 11 | 2 | 1 |
The Fifth Estate | 3AW | Jim Schembri | The film is no love letter to [Julian] Assange. If he was worried about being portrayed as an arrogant git, an Aussie larrikin with a neat turn-of-phrase and a questionable concept of conscience, his fears are well-founded. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | true | 6 | 11 | 2 | 1 |
Austenland | 3AW | Jim Schembri | Based on the 2007 book by Shannon Hale, all the ingredients for a deft, sly, sleight-of-hand comedy are there. But the film is all over the place. The tone is off, the timing is off, the cutting is off. And it's just not funny. | 1/5 | 5 | 1 | 5 | true | 2 | 11 | 2 | 1 |
The Secret Scripture | 3AW | Jim Schembri | Fine, lush-looking, understated 2016 wartime drama from veteran Jim Sheridan...Perfect arthouse fare, this. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | true | 6 | 11 | 2 | 1 |
I Origins | 3AW | Jim Schembri | It's the wily blending of opposing concepts - science vs faith; chance vs destiny; mortality vs spirituality - that gives considerable intellectual muscle to an unusual mix of mystery and love story. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | true | 6 | 11 | 2 | 1 |
Her | 3AW | Jim Schembri | It's an entertaining film. That said, the film does have tickets on itself. Spike Jonze's elegant direction is so seductive it might lead you to buy into the pretensions of profundity about just how deep his fable-like story goes. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | true | 6 | 11 | 2 | 1 |
A Dog's Way Home | 3AW | Jim Schembri | What sets A Dog's Way Home above the pack of most animal movies is that while the film is perfectly suitable for children, it's actually an adult movie...the emotional highs of the film have been designed more for grown-ups [than kids}. | 3.5/5 | 5 | 3.5 | 5 | true | 7 | 11 | 2 | 1 |
Jumanji: The Next Level | 3AW | Jim Schembri | Made promptly to ride the huge success of 2017's Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, there's nothing inherently wrong or bad with the sequel, apart from the fact that it doesn't really have a story...A proficient retread of what we saw before. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | true | 6 | 11 | 2 | 1 |
Samba | 3AW | Jim Schembri | Perhaps a bit too leisurely paced, the film unspools as an engaging, if not enthralling, look at the realities of racism and cultural identity. | 3/5 | 5 | 3 | 5 | true | 6 | 11 | 2 | 1 |