Compelling cinema in the form of a documentary can be hard to come by when it’s not arguing a provocative social or political issue currently in vogue.  Typically, biopics are rarely reserved for anything more than a midday movie time-slot with the sole intent of selling rags-to-riches story to bored housewives. Thankfully, first-time documentarians Michèle Hozer and Peter Raymont have crafted an insight into the life of musical [...]

This week, Angelina Jolie became blog fodder once again when pictures from the set of her unnamed directorial debut surfaced, but were eclipsed by speculation that her Hollywood husband Brad Pitt has an acting part in the politically-charged Bosnian love story.

As the latest Harry Potter instalment hits Aussie cinemas today, I’ll keep this week’s WTF short and simple so y’all can rush out to see it. As you would imagine, we here at CPR enjoy talking about HP season profusely every time it comes around again, so check out or latest review and commentary.

With the series drawing nearer and nearer to a close, and with the [...]

Robert Rodriguez sparked a mass of internet buzz in 2007 with a faux trailer for a B-movie called Machete – more buzz, you might say, than the Grindhouse double-feature Death Proof and Planet Terror that accompanied it. While I personally loved watching stunt-woman Zoe Bell  kick the crap out of Kurt Russell in Death Proof and witnessing Black Eyed Peas’ front-woman Fergie get mauled by zombies in Planet Terror, Grindhouse fell flat at [...]

This week, WTF is doing a double take:  merely three days ago, I caught Michelle Rodriguez supporting Danny Trejo’s ex-federale-turned-political-assassin-turned-hyper-exploitation-style-revenge-ass-kicker in Robert Rodriguez’s Machete (review coming soon). Today, I learn that Rodriguez has signed on to support yet another ex-badass-in-Texas who is out to avenge his murdered family in Paul Schrader’s The Jesuit, which is also set to star Willem Dafoe, Paz Vega and Manolo Cardona. You might [...]

I can’t even say anything before I say this…WTF is with Hollywood’s sudden need to reboot a whole bunch of iconic movie franchises even when most are still less than a decade old? I see the point in a new Tron, a new Texas Chainsaw Massacre and maybe even the bomb that was Russel Crowe’s Robin Hood remake. But recent blockbusters like [...]

Controversial gossip about upcoming films can either make or break a new release. More often than not, any talk – good or bad – is better for a new release than none. As you have all probably heard by now, Tom Six’s new shock-horror movie The Human Centipede has had tongues wagging for awhile – but a flick about a mad doctor who kidnaps, imprisons and then stitches [...]

Sometimes in life, events unfold that take you by surprise: people die unexpectedly, an unwanted responsibility lands in your hands, people fall in love despite the odds and, every now and then a movie that promises to be an absolute car wreck, actually isn’t.

Incidentally, Life as We Know It sees a tragic car accident take the lives of a baby girl’s young and rich parents, leaving [...]