BlurayAU Reviews

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 [...]

1995′s “Pocahontas” was Disney at it’s best, serving up a beautiful hand-drawn tale of romance and adventure, complete with an enlightening history lesson (albeit, a slightly exaggerated version of an event). The first film based on a real-life character – not to mention the first to feature a Native American heroine – the Mike Gabriel [...]

Where did we go wrong and stop believing in the sweet innocence of a Disney film? It’s no coincidence that Walk Disney was the most prolific Oscar winner when he was alive but under the stewardship of everyone from Michael Eisner to Bob Iger Mauschwitz has been reduced to just one of many studios churning [...]

As Patrick Dempsey found out when his bank balance started showing 0′s upon hiring the hottest girl in school to be his girlfriend, 25 years back in “Can’t Buy Me Love”, most people will do anything to add some polish to their status or more so, be anyone else. In “Awkward”, a new MTV series [...]

Like Judy Garland, The Village People and Kylie Minogue, the institution of the musical is a well-known gay icon today. The challenge then for Adam Shankman, the man behind the 2007 hit ”Hairspray”, was to bring in a wider audience. Even the demographic who’ve adopted the musical as their own and the armies of women [...]

An adventure/comedy straight from the G/PG rated Spielberg/Dante/Kennedy/Marshall stable of the late 80s and early 90s through and through – from the plot and effects to the cast itself of Jeff Daniels and John Goodman. Only mildly successful as a movie but with some standout effects, it tells the story of a young family led [...]

A two-pack featuring Disney’s remarkably timeless animated treats. While “The Rescuers Down Under”, the sequel of the twosome, is still fun, it doesn’t encompass the magic of the original. One of the cutest Disney films ever, and – perhaps owing to my age at the time – it’s the one that made the most impact [...]

Since 1732, when Benjamin Franklin first published Poor Richard’s Almanac, America has gradually become obsessed with self-help literature as a way to find the next quick fix to achieving that elusive “American dream”. So it was only a matter of time before this multi-billion dollar industry teamed up with the big business of Hollywood to [...]

Terrific recreation of the High School staple and film of the same name. Nothing is directly lifted from the classic Aussie coming-of-age movie to the series update, but that insightful (and for some embarrassing) telescope-peep on life back in the late seventies/early eighties again replicates divinely to screen. From the pains and pimples of being [...]

When a film opens with a dedication to the late Korean leader Kim Jong Il you know you’re going to be taking a politically incorrect ride. And when the film comes from the mind of the brilliant Sacha Baron Cohen, you know it’s going to be hilarious. Unlike his previous faux documentaries featuring his characters [...]

Definitely a show for the chicks, but one you’ll quietly find yourself engaged in should you be sitting in the room at the time. Needless to say, since it’s all there in the title, it’s pure trash, but it’s well written trash and features a pretty capable cast, including ’90s screen siren Madeline Stowe (”Stakeout”, [...]

Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark As the two most successful directors in Hollywood in the late 1970s, Lucas and Spielberg could do whatever they wanted. And what they wanted was to express the shared love of movie serials they both loved as kids and teenagers, the same aesthetic with which Lucas [...]