Category: Film Reviews
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Best of June 2011
BEST OF: Welcome to our brand new monthly column, in which we each pick our top films that came out in the last few weeks. There were 19 new releases out in Australian throughout June 2011, including blockbusters X-Men: First Class, Super 8, Bridesmaids and Transformers: Dark of the Moon 3D and the polarising The…
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Review: The Borrower Arrietty (aka Arrietty aka The Secret World of Arrietty)
REVIEW: Studio Ghibli has already created a number of classic modern tales enjoyed the world over, and debut feature director Hiromasa Yonebayashi borrows from Mary Norton’s series of beloved children’s novels for the seventeenth film under the Ghibli banner.
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The Trip
REVIEW: Comedians Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon reunited for their latest collaboration with English director Michael Winterbottom.
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Review: The Tree of Life
REVIEW: The Palme d’Or winning fifth feature from acclaimed auteur Terrence Malick makes its way into cinemas, bearing the weight of years expectation. Starring Brad Pitt and Sean Penn, The Tree Of Life is ambitious and audacious, as well as being far from your average film-going experience.
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Transformers: Dark of the Moon
REVIEW: Following the massive commercial success of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and a string of Razzies across the top categories, Michael Bay brings his trilogy on the robots in disguise to a close.
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Sleeping Beauty
REVIEW: Julia Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty offers a modern interpretation of the classic fairy tale.
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Beginning of the Great Revival
REVIEW: Marking the 90th anniversary of the Communist Party of China, Beginning of the Great Revival has been largely labelled in the West as a piece of party propaganda.
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Sydney Film Festival 2011: Wrap Up
WRAP UP: With almost a week passing since the 58th Sydney Film Festival closed last Sunday, we take a look back at the favourites of the festival – as voted by the attending audience, and by us!
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Review: Cars 2
REVIEW: Back with a sequel to their 2006 hit Cars, Pixar-founder John Lasseter returns to the directors chair with the logically-titled Cars 2.
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