Category: Film Reviews
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Limitless
An adaptation of Alan Glynn’s novel “The Dark Fields”, Limitless tests Bradley Cooper’s leading man credentials – and Robert De Niro’s late career choices – in a slick mystery thriller from director Neil Burger. Also starring Australia’s Abbie Cornish!
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A Cat in Paris (Alliance Française French Film Festival 2011)
House cat by day, prowling the rooftops of Paris by night: such is the life of a cat. This retro storybook of a film is the latest big animated film to come out of France from Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli, and it is playing here for the Alliance Française French Film Festival.
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Barney’s Version
Richard J. Lewis brings Mordecai Richler’s 1997 novel Barney’s Version to the big screen, with Paul Giamatti in the lead. Surrounded by a high profile cast, it tells the tale of the life of the titular character, in a story that has to be seen to be believed.
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On Tour (Alliance Française French Film Festival 2011)
Earning Mathieu Amalric best director at Cannes, On Tour paints a portrait of the other side of burlesque as it follows an American troupe doing the rounds of France.
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Biutiful
Alejandro González Iñárritu returns with his first film since 2006’s Babel, eschewing his linear-bending stories for a more straightforward but equally powerful portrayal of a man’s journey along the edges of life and death. Starring Javier Bardem in an Oscar-nominated role.
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Battle: Los Angeles
REVIEW: The beleaguered City of Angels faces impending doom yet again as aliens take on Tinseltown, clearly tired of Hollywood showing how easy they are to defeat.
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Outside the Law (Alliance Française French Film Festival 2011)
Writer / director Rachid Bouchareb follows up his Cannes Film Festival François Chalais award-winning world war two film Days Of Glory with another explosive drama starring his trio of brothers Jamel Debbouze, Sami Bouajila and Roschdy Zem.
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A View of Love (Alliance Française French Film Festival 2011)
Jean Dujardin and Marie-Josée Croze join actress-turned-director Nicole Garcia in her latest outing. Part of a wave of French cinema dealing with the French occupation of Algeria, it is now screening at the Alliance Française French Film Festival 2011.
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The Rite
With films about exorcism having a fairly impressive pedigree, could The Rite possibly be wrong? The power of christ has compelled Colin O’Donoghue and Sir Anthony Hopkins to star in Mikael Håfström’s latest entry to the head-spinning genre.
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Castaway on the Moon
The 2011 Korean Cinema Blogathon is on, and we are taking a look at Lee Hae-jun’s 2009 sophomore effort. Soon to be remade for US audiences by Mean Girls director Mark Waters, audiences everywhere should take the opportunity to explore this modern classic.
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