Tag: drama
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80s Bits: Footloose
80s BITS: It’s time to cut loose this week. We travel back 27 years to the original version of the now classic Footloose.
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Puncture – New trailer and poster for Chris Evans film
TRAILER: Chris Evans will portray a lawyer out of his depth in the classic-style “David and Goliath” courtroom drama, Puncture.
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Review: Win Win
REVIEW: The latest film from actor-director Tom McCarthy makes a change of pace, bringing Paul Giamatti and Amy Ryan along for the ride.
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Jane Eyre
REVIEW: The latest adaptation of Jane Eyre, now with Michael Fassbender and Australia’s Mia Wasikowska to swoon over.
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The Beaver
REVIEW: Jodie foster directs and stars in an exploration of depression and puppet fetishes with Hollywood pariah Mel Gibson in The Beaver. Is this a case of art imitating life, or an actor who has hit rock-bottom using his experience to craft a fine performance?
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Melbourne International Film Festival: 28 July 2011
FILM FESTIVAL: The first week draws to a close at the 60th Melbourne International Film Festival, with a stack of goodies yet to come. We take a look at Lena Dunham’s mumblecore film Tiny Furniture, Sion Sono’s brutal masterpiece Cold Fish and Richard Ayoade’s sublime Submarine.
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The Conspirator
REVIEW: Actor, filmmaker and Sundance Film Festival founder Robert Redford gets back behind the camera for the first time since 2007’s Lions for Lambs with a thought-provoking examination of the witch-hunt trial around the Lincoln assassination that has parallels today.
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Beautiful Lies
REVIEW: French starlet Audrey Tautou is reunited with her Priceless director Pierre Salvadori (writer of Wild Target), in Beautiful Lies, a romantic-comedy in which she once again sets out to prove that romance is not dead, it’s just very, very French.
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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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Sleeping Beauty
REVIEW: Julia Leigh’s Sleeping Beauty offers a modern interpretation of the classic fairy tale.
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