Balibo (Review)

If I ever needed a reminder as to why I love the art of film, I needn’t look further than Robert Connolly’s (Three Dollars, The Bank) political thriller Balibo.  Based on the true story of the five Australian journalists who went missing weeks prior to Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor in 1975, Balibo is a momentous piece of storytelling, driven by powerhouse performances and sublime direction. Emotionally engaging from start to end, this is a profound cinematic experience [...]

Elegy (Guest Review)

An elegy is a mournful, melancholic or plaintive poem, especially a funeral song or a lament for the dead. An elegy can also reflect on something that seems strange or mysterious to the author.  And so it is with Ben Kingsley as aging lothario David Kepesh, a reflection on the mysterious. The upset of his perfectly ordered life when beautiful Consuela Castillo (Penelope Cruz) comes crashing into it with a tender love causing him to question his shallow [...]

Slumdog Millionaire (Review)

One might say genre categorisation exists to give the prospective audience an inkling in to what sort of emotions they should expect the film to evoke. Yet British director Danny Boyle asks an elementary question; why? Why limit a film to one set of emotions when it has the potential to explore so much more?
His question is hypothetical, because he has already provided us with the answer. That answer is Slumdog Millionaire; a truly remarkable film [...]

The Dark Knight (Review)

“This town deserves a better class of criminal”, Heath Ledger’s Joker menacingly proclaims as he casually sets light to a monstrous mountain of money that ferociously burns to the ground, “…and I’m going to give it to them.”

This scene from the aptly titled The Dark Knight, the decidedly gloomy follow up to 2005’s relaunch of the Batman franchise, is indicative of the film on a whole. Let me clarify; with a spectacular array of action sequences alongside a [...]