Archive for December, 2009
Showing results 1 - 6 of 20 for the month of December, 2009.
Invictus (Review)
Indian spiritual leader Mahatma Gandhi got his own Hollywood biopic. So did legendary French heroine Joan of Arc, gay rights politician Harvey Milk, sporting great Muhammad Ali, Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara…heck, even gangster rapper 50 Cent got one.
So why is it that Nelson Mandela — a man who served a 27 year jail sentence in South Africa before being elected President of the nation that imprisoned him – gets his Hollywood biopic thrown in with [...]
White Christmas: The Unrealistic View for Australians
Every year, audiences worldwide are bombarded with Christmas films on TV and in the cinema; TV shows often give an episode the ‘Winter Wonderland’ treatment. That of course stems from Hollywood – as the dominant figure, their view is projected onto the world to create a concept of the celebration. But why should Australians believe this when it has no relevance to our climate or culture – should we really be expected to believe
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Did You Hear About The Morgans? (Review)
Romantic comedies, especially those aimed at the lonely-gooey-hearts out there, rarely find a warm reception from me. Although I must profess that those starring Hugh Grant (Notting Hill, About a Boy, Bridget Jones) do set my steel-reinforced heart just a wee bit aflutter. So, I shuffled into Did You Hear About the Morgans? clutching an embarrassingly large bag of confectionary and shreds of hopeful expectation. Alas, if was not to be – the film was absolutely dismal. And [...]
Bright Star (Review)
Jane Campion’s ninth outing in a directing role conveys all the usual period blend of romance and refinery. Her screenplay for this film remains true to the words of John Keats himself, and ensures her constructed world is a believable portrait of Keats’ life and times.
A sharp chiaroscuro of bright white and dark shadows, Abbie Cornish with persistently tear-stained cheeks and an intense polarisation between the personalities of the Poet John Keats (Ben Wishaw) and [...]
10 Best & Worst Movie Posters of 2009
Movie posters have the power to make or break a films success at the box office, so it’s important to get it right.
However, designing a poster that is striking, attractive and, most importantly, makes you moviegoers actually want to see the film being advertised is no easy task. Yet these ten posters from 2009 were able to rise above medicority and do exactly that. On page two, we showcase the [...]
Sherlock Holmes (Review)
Robert Downey Jr is a very busy man. He has a lot to uphold amongst his Hollywood comeback, first donning the Iron Man suit and now almost certainly entering a second franchise with one of fiction’s most beloved characters. It’s funny then that the character of Sherlock Holmes hasn’t been a favourite in cinema; the bumbling detective now has one of the most known falsely quoted lines in history. Sadly but rightly so, said line fails to actually [...]
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