Category: FILM REVIEWS

Reading Time: 4 minutesThanks to a request by the two delightful young girls in our care on a rainy afternoon, we attended a viewing of Disney’s classic film, ‘Dumbo’, as reimagined for 2019. Dumbo 1941 Comparing The Two Versions...

Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 2018 the Japanese film, ‘Shoplifters’, was awarded the Palme d’Or, the highest prize of the Cannes Film Festival.  ThiS film is set in a Japan that few, if any, of us have previously...

Reading Time: 9 minutesCold War is a love story se in Cold War Poland between 1949 and 1964. The social and political context of the period sheds light on both the progression of Zula and Wiktor’s love story and the role of music in Polish society. It has been suggested that the film’s Cold War title also relates to the passionate, fiery and on and off relationship between Zula and Wiktor. But perhaps, the story may just as satisfactorily be regarded as a Shakespearean tragedy, or as a story of a relationship in which both parties feel they can’t live without the other while ultimately conceding that they also cannot live with them.

Reading Time: 2 minutesFavourite is set in the early 18th century reign of Queen Anne and tells the story of her documented relationships with Lady Sarah the Duchess of Marlborough and Abigail, and their all female love triangle....

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is the silly season. And, we did something very silly this morning. We attended a screening of ‘Holmes and Watson’, the ‘comedy’ starring Will Ferrell as Sherlock Holmes and John C Reilly as...

Reading Time: 2 minutesA matinee screening of ‘Colette’ provided welcome relief from both Christmas shopping and the debilitating humidity of FNQ in late December.  ‘Colette’ is cinema to be savoured. It is also a showcase for the...

Reading Time: < 1 minute‘The Little Death’ is a 2014 Australian film now freely available from SBS on demand.  It is a very funny adult comedy about sex, and mostly about sexual fantasies not known or attractive to...

Reading Time: 2 minutesIf we’re lucky, we are given the opportunity to see a film that is so cleverly scripted, naturally acted and seamlessly edited that it leaves us searching for superlatives. This is exactly how I...

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s a welcome surprise when a film turns out to be more than ‘harmless light entertainment’. And so it was when I offered to come along to a screening of Book Club. The storyline...