Category: Film Reviews
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Sydney Film Festival 2011: Day 1
With the Opening Night a roaring success, today marked the first full day of screenings at the 58th Sydney Film Festival. In addition to the Australian debut of Official Competition entrant Attenberg, there were 15 new films on offer today!
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Review: Oranges and Sunshine
The debut feature from director Jim Loach, Oranges and Sunshine examines a forgotten chapter of UK/Australian relations and uncovers the human side of the Home Children policy.
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Sydney Film Festival 2011: Opening Night – Hanna
The weather is turning cold in Sydney, and despite some unseasonable sunshine in the last few days, it must be time for the 58th Sydney Film Festival. Kicking off the festival tonight was Hanna, the new film from Joe Wright starring Fetsival patron Cate Blanchett, Eric Bana and Saoirse Ronan.
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Review: Super 8
In his third feature, television wunderkind turned film visionary turns in an a love letter to Steven Spielberg as well as an action / adventure effort that recalls the films of the 1980s in the magical mysterious and mesmerising Super 8
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The Tunnel
Released simultaneously in theatres, television, DVD and via bittorrent, and financed by crowdsourced funding, Australian horror feature The Tunnel is an innovative and ambitious documentary-style effort in the so-called “found footage” genre.
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Here I Am
REVIEW: In a film filled with warmth, humour and engaging photography, Beck Cole’s Festival favourite Here I Am provides a powerful portrait of the kind of strong women that have been noticeably absent from Australian screens of late.
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X-Men: First Class
REVIEW: In the fifth installment of Stan Lee’s iconic superhero series, X-Men: First Class explores the origins of the intriguing relationship between the two men at the centre of the mutants versus humans battle – Professor Charles Xavier and Eric Lehnsherr, aka Magneto.
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Oceans
In Oceans, directors Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud (Travelling Birds) attempt to answer the question “What is the ocean?” through powerful and emotive visuals. Narrated by Pierce Brosnan, the film provides a stunning look at an alien world beneath the surface.
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The Hangover: Part II
REVIEW: After the unprecedented success of the first installment two years ago, the wolfpack is back in The Hangover: Part II. Get set for another wild night of drinking and debauchery, with Bradley Cooper, Ed Helms and Zach Galifianakis taking on the underbelly of Bangkok.
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Angèle And Tony
REVIEW: Following in the impressive footsteps of a long line of French female auteurs, first-timer Alix Delaporte tells a story of strangers by the sea in the gentle, gorgeous gem of a film that is Angele And Tony.
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