Category: FILM REVIEWS

Reading Time: 2 minutes‘The Wife’ is a film based the book of the same name by Meg Wolitzer. I would be very surprised if it proved to be a smashing box office success as it is anything...

Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Calvary’ is a beautiful, wise, funny and sad film, set in a picturesque sea-side town in Ireland. This 2014 Irish production is exceptional in that it succeeds to both entertain and challenge our thinking...

Reading Time: 2 minutes‘The Bookshop’ is a film that is different in a number of significant ways. While this makes it more memorable, it also makes it less sugar-coated. It most certainly is not a Hollywood movie....

Reading Time: < 1 minute‘Loveless’ is a custody battle film with a twist – neither of the parents wants their 12 year old son. Set in contemporary Russia, this excellent Russian Arthouse film presents modern Russia without the...

Reading Time: 3 minutesWilling to settle for a quiet Sunday night movie about a Swiss professor who breaks out of his staid routine and has a life changing experience, we ended up with so much more, watching...

Reading Time: 2 minutesThis charming 2018 British comedy/drama, set during and but largely immediately after World War II, is based on a 2008 novel of the same name, written by Mary Anne Shaffer and Annie Barrows. This...

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn ‘Iris’ (or ‘In the shadow of Iris’ as it is known in England and therefore called by most critics) an attractive young woman stages her own kidnaping, demanding a substantial ransom from her...

Reading Time: 2 minutesBrowsing through the latest list of films available through ‘SBS on demand’, I came across ‘The Lobster’ a 2015 dystopian black-comedy/drama set in the near future.  The main storyline is that the laws of...

Reading Time: < 1 minuteThe only criticism that I have read of ‘Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri’ is that audiences have not liked the ending. Well I beg to differ and suggest that the ending was possibly the...

Reading Time: < 1 minute‘The Midwife’ is a 2017 French film starring the two Catherines (Deneuve and Frot).  While two hours long, it is so well crafted and the storyline is so unpredictable that The film never drags....