Written by Cassandra Singh. College lecturer Nick and school teacher Meg, Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan, respectfully, are a long-married British couple who, for their 30th wedding anniversary, decide to revisit Paris in an attempt to rekindle their relationship. Finding that the streets of Paris don’t spark the same feelings as when they first visited Paris …
Written by Guillermo Troncoso. Nebraska marks Alexander Payne’s first feature film as director for which he isn’t credited as the screenplay’s writer, or at least co-writer. You couldn’t tell though, the filmmaker’s sensibilities run through the core of this fine piece of Americana. The writer-director of About Schmidt, Sideways and The Descendants continues a similar …
Written by Guillermo Troncoso. Writer-director Greg McLean stabbed and sliced his way onto the international horror-circuit with Wolf Creek, an independently produced horror-film set in Australia’s Outback. Dubiously marketed as being “based on true events”, since the plot bore elements of the 2001 murder of Peter Falconio, the 2005 film was a commercial success, albeit with mixed …
Written by Guillermo Troncoso. Dallas Buyers Club sees Matthew McConaughey give a career-best performance in a film that not only works beautifully as a multilayered drama, but excels as a film with a powerful social agenda. Dallas Buyers Club is based on the true story of Ron Woodroof (McConaughey), a Texas electrician whose world is turned upside down when he …
Written by Rebecca Marie-Taylor. By now, most of you will have heard Ellen Page’s message heard around the world: she is gay. For the most part, this doesn’t seem to have sent anyone into fits of outrage (aside from the odd disappointed male suitor via Twitter), but for some, her 8-minute speech was filled with …
Written by Lily Davis. After the recent death of Nelson Mandela in December of last year, all eyes turned to the release of his biopic and its representation of the legendary man. Mandela: Long Walk To Freedom had actually been in the works for many, many years before production. The project finally gained momentum thanks …
Written by Guillermo Troncoso. The general consensus when the RoboCop reboot was announced was resoundingly negative. The early images of the titular man-machine’s “new look” didn’t inspire confidence, then came along the news that they were to deliver the film wrapped in a PG-13 package – a complete no-no for the fans of Paul Verhoeven’s …
Written by Zac Platt. Over their 30-year-long careers, Joel and Ethan Coen have learned how to distil their films down into their raw philosophical and cinematic elements. Time and again they have bucked the need for story resolution or structural conventions to give priority to their characters and thesis. While perhaps easier to digest than …
Written by Lily Davis. The recent loss of outstanding and respected actor Philip Seymour Hoffman has reverberated around the world. The details of his death, which leaked into the news with astounding speed, were devastating. On February 2nd, a friend found Hoffman dead in the bathroom of his New York City apartment. He allegedly passed …
