BlurayAU Reviews

One of the coolest experiences I had as a movie goer and TMNT fan. I possibly loved it so much because I half expected Saturday morning cartoon-rubbish plot and script, and even an unbiased opinion must concede that it was well written, adequately acted and more than adequately scripted, paced and designed for its target [...]

As a group of friends gather to remember their friend, Tom, tensions begin to build. Gone a year, it’s obvious that Tom meant a lot to a lot of people, including his ex-girlfriend, Iris (Blunt) and his brother, Jack (Duplass). After the gathering Iris invites Jack to spend time in her father’s cabin, assuring him [...]

[Review’s note: The version reviewed is the R-rated video-on-demand version. There is an unrated version that was released in other territories last month and will be released eventually on blu-ray.] HOLLYWOOD, TIME TO GIVE JOHN HYAMS A BIG BUDGET FILM. Many others will be echoing that sentiment as Hyams’s new film “Universal Soldier: Day of [...]

15 years ago, I was likely also anticipating an Alicia Silverstone reunion – only that one involved a tongue and a bedroom wall of sticky clippings of a teenage movie star in skimpy clothing. And here we go again, reuniting with a beloved. Always a special thing. Silverstone’s latest reunion isn’t so much with me [...]

Did you know the power of dance can take on a million dollar property investment? DID YOU? Well you can, that is the message of “Step Up 4: Miami Heat”. That or dancers have really hot bodies, particularly when the sun is setting on the beach behind them. Which is all the time. Yeah, maybe [...]

“The Sapphires” is one of the most charming films to come out of Australia in a long time. It takes the term “feel good” and wraps you around its little finger, takes you for a beer, breaks into song, pays for dinner then buys you a puppy on the way home. It is that charming. [...]

Is Jonathan Crane (aka The Scarecrow) in it? Is the character of Miranda Tate (Marion Cotillard) really Talia Al-Ghul? Does Bruce Wayne die at the end? Can director Christopher Nolan do what no director has in history and pull off the biggest, baddest, best last installment in a popular popcorn movie trilogy (”Spider-Man 3” was [...]

Nicholas Hope (“Bad Boy Bubby”) is back wearing the sadistic skivvy in the unnerving “Redd Inc”, a crafty new thriller that – and it’s a rarity these days – spends as much time on character as it does concept. Hope’s Thomas ‘Redd’ Reddman , a businessman cum serial-killer, has escaped from a mental institution, where [...]

“It’s time to get wet again”, David Koechner’s Chet, the sleazy owner of one of those highly-commercialised water parks, tells viewers in an advertisement within the film plugging the relaunch of his business. If you didn’t catch “Piranha 3D”, director Alexandre Aje’s bloody, booby reboot of the Joe Dante horror classic about stupid kids being [...]

The grass is never greener on the other side, that’s the message at the center of Sarah Polley’s stay-with-the-one-that-truly-loves-you forewarner, ”Take this Waltz”. This ‘new eventually becomes old too’ reminder, based on a 2010 black list script by actress Polley, will likely send Nicholas Sparks into convulsions, and any young woman who has ditched her [...]

Though always equipped with engrossing (true) stories (ripped straight from the first couple of pages of the daily newspapers), the “Underbelly” series does dip bottom-ways, creatively speaking, here and there – particular in the last couple of years. But when all the fuses are fitted correctly, the series fires on all cylinders. The very first [...]

The premise of this movie seems to be saying a lot, but at its most basic it’s a fairly transparent parable about the act of creating stories. It cane be said that Sitterson (Jenkins) and Hadley (Whitford) are authors – or directors – and the kids in the cabin simply characters they’re manipulating to create [...]

Rather ironic that Nicolas Cage’s latest is named “Seeking Justice”, since that’s what most of us have been beseeching after having to endure the fallen greats latest barrage of blah (”Ghost Rider”, ”Trespass”, ”The Wicker Man”, “Season of the Witch” et al). But since we’re doing like Ron Kovic on the battlefields of Nam, and [...]

Remember that shrill, detestable show-off in school that would do anything to garner the attention of his fellow students and teachers? No, not me. That other shit. Well, anyway, if he was a flick, he’d be “Assassins Bullet”, a cheap blockbuster wannabe that’s loud, confident and quite frankly, without much direction. This is one whose [...]

With the burnish his star once embodied all but an barely visible memory, largely thanks to the seductive and deep pocketed likes of 50 Cent and Avi Lerner (among others), good to see Bruce Willis in a B-film that hasn’t substituted substance and style for foreign pre-sales for once. Not to say “Cold Light of [...]