BlurayAU Reviews

The film that spelled the breakout of a sincere new talent. There was always a good actor inside Tom Cruise struggling to get out, and as soon as he got over the little boy fantasy roles as racing car drivers, fighter pilots and bartenders he was bound for good rather than just big things. Scorsese [...]

There’s been a lengthy embargo placed on all reviews of Disney’s ”John Carter ”- and that includes reviews of a 140 character type. Of the few Twitter leaks (there’s always a couple that play the Charles Bronson of the Social Networks) that managed to escape a Disney scoring through, a very positive post (explains why [...]

The sixth season of one of cable TV’s more unique offerings doesn’t hint at better things to come, but it does at least suggest there’s enough intrigue solely in Michael C.Hall’s deliciously devilish performance to keep the boat on course a little while longer. Season 6′s plot takes the focus off Dexter’s inner-ticking and what [...]

Oskar Schell got out of school early that day. He went home and saw several messages on the family answering machine. Turning on the television he is puzzled by the images of the burning buildings on screen. It was Tuesday, September 11, 2001. To Oskar, it was “the worst day.” Featuring the greatest performance by [...]

Way up in the Alaskan frontier, a group of men work on an oil pipeline. Unseen by all is Ottway (Neeson), whose only job is to look through a rifle scope and shoot ANYTHING that threatens the workers. Longing for his wife, Ottway and a group of men board a plane for Anchorage. When the [...]

When describing the timeless success of Jaws in some interview or other, Steven Spielberg attributed it to the fact that they didn’t anchor the story in a particular time. Apart from a few big hairstyles, none of the setting, fashions or production design signify the aesthetic of a particular vidual period in history. For the [...]

There are some things that can never be explained. In Hollywood, actors are a dime a dozen. But there are very few STARS. And one of the biggest of them all was Marilyn Monroe. 1956. In a film studio in England, two of the film world’s greatest attractions have contracted to star in a film [...]

If movie posters told us all we needed to know about a particular movie, then Contraband is simply a flick where Mark Wahlberg gets around with a big-ass gun, looking sternly at the trash he’s about to take out. And one wouldn’t be deemed silly for presupposing ”Contraband” exactly that -particularly since the man-shooting-a-gun movie [...]

One of my fondest memories of my childhood is sitting at the kitchen table waiting for my ‘shrinkie’ (google it kids) to melt, crumble and form in the oven while my grandmother cooked whatever animal had foolishly decided to play car tag on Anderson street that day. As my mother drew on her pencil freckles [...]

You normally wouldn’t advise one to ‘go over’ a Tattoo, but in the case of Stieg Larsson’s inked offering, it only illuminates the piece of art. ”The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” is Mesmerizing. Confronting. Thrilling. Sexy. Compelling. And so is the remake. The Swedish smash, an erotic murder mystery that rocketed Noomi Rapace to [...]

A pleasantly acted and pitched Australian comedy that mercifully didn’t rely on some pop culture meme to get a toehold (Abba, etc), but instead simply relies on charm and laughs. It’s not exactly a case of nothing you haven’t seen before as four lads from England come to Australia where one of them is marrying [...]

Some of the scenes in the trailer looked cool but I should have thought it out a bit better. Alien creatures made of… wait for it… wisps of light? Yes they might be able to eat you up into dust (although we already saw that in Spielberg’s ”War of the Worlds”), but cinematically it’s about [...]

When Glenn Close starred in the 1982 stage production of ‘Albert Nobbs’, few could have predicted that twenty nine years later the economic ruin of 1900 Ireland would be a reality for many. For this reason the film’s major theme of livelihood and life being one in the same will resonate. For the central characters [...]

Jean-Claude Van Damme is still trapped in the Snakes and ladders grid it seems. And with “Dragon Eyes”, he slips back a couple of places. Again. Just when things looked like they were looking up for the fallen action star, what with the very pleasing “Universal Soldier Regeneration” and the showy “Expendables 2″ bad guy [...]

When I sat down this evening to write my review for “Journey 2: The Mysterious Island”, I was reminded of something that my high school teachers always told us before we sat our exams – that despite their role of assessing our abilities, examiners were trying to help us, to award us marks wherever possible. [...]