CinemaAU Reviews

Australia ships back a couple of it’s thriving exports, and revives the directing career of a local steady, for this hokey but entertaining ‘Jaws-in-a-Supermarket ‘corker. Directed by musician cum filmmaker Kimble Rendall (”Cut”), and featuring the recognizable mugs of recent Hollywood hires Julian McMahon and Xavier Samuel, Bait is a genre effort that’s unquestionably ‘fin’ [...]

Buzzing with fast cash exchange and “conversations that never happened,” “The Ambassador” follows Danish journalist, Mads Brugger as he goes undercover as a Liberian diplomat to explore the seedy underbelly of the blood diamond trade. The documentary is frightening and fascinating package, where diplomacy is bought and sold, yet Brugger pulls out a convincing yet [...]

The critics (and audiences) fawened all over this movie, and while it is worthy of praise, it hasn’t really done anything above and beyond what it’s predecessors have done. It’s only really as good as ”Toy Story” and ”Monsters Inc”, whereas previous Pixar films have tended to outshine their predecessors in turn. Marlin (Brooks) is [...]

After one of the standout debuts of the 2012 Sundance Film Festival, writer/director/composer Benh Zeitlin’s ”Beasts of the Southern Wild” will draw a more circumspect and certainly more divided reaction from cinemagoers. It has the esoteric, ambiguous and undisciplined narrative that’s always a harder sell in multiplexes, but it already has a strong indie film [...]

An author (Dennis Quaid) approaches a podium before a packed house. He announces the title of the book he’s just written, “The Words,” and begins to read a passage. It relates the story of another author, Rory Jansen (Cooper). We meet Rory and his wife, Dora (Saldana) in the back of a limousine, celebrating the [...]

After a few years on the bench, small-screen success stories Jane Turner and Gina Riley pull their most popular creations off the bench and put them back in the game. And while it’s terrific to have Kath & Kim back on the field, particularly considering we haven’t seen them in a while, it goes without [...]

Charlie Bronson (Shepard) and his girlfriend, Annie, (Bell) lie in bed, making the kind of promises only people in love make. A loud car outside alerts them that they have company. The driver is Randy (Tom Arnold). A U.S. Marshal, Randy can best be described as “clutzy.” One more spilled coffee or accidental discharge of [...]

And the award for most improved film franchise goes to… The Expendables. It’s rather ironic that Sly Stallone’s anti-Metamucil campaign that begun in 2010 bears the name ‘The Expendables’, considering that’s how most of Hollywood has seen most of the (literal) heavyweights in the picture since the advent of CGI, Neal Moritz and Skin-coloured padding. [...]

If you spent any time watching the 2008 Summer Olympics you most probably saw the amazing art work of Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (pronounced “Eye Way-way”), most notably the “Birdsnest” stadium. But it is not only for his art that Weiwei is known. He has been very vocal about his political leanings and his troubles [...]

Mathew McConaughey keeps his shirt-on in this one (I know! Shocker!), but still manages to keep most – well, your wife or girlfriend is a different matter – interested by way of a fun turn in his reunion with ”Dazed & Confused” director Richard Linklater. An odd film to say the least, one that plays [...]

Though I’m not your typical action-flick-follower, I have to admit to having a bit of a soft spot for the “Bourne” movies; most probably because I also enjoyed reading the books in the not-so-distant past. So, I wasn’t sure what to expect when I signed up to see “The Bourne Legacy”, the latest instalment in [...]

Kay (Streep) and Arnold (Jones) have been married for 31 years. Their daily routines have become just that…routine. Kay rises early to make Arnold’s breakfast (2 eggs and 1 strip of bacon) and watches him go off to work. She has his dinner waiting when he comes home. Then she wakes him up after he’s [...]

As earnest, clean-living Carolina Senator Cam Brady, Will Ferrell is shown in a variety of photo ops with farmers, teachers and similarly noble professions, all of which he calls the backbone of the nation. But his love for America and the dignity of its hardworking citizens doesn’t stop there. Without a hint of irony nor [...]

ME : K. ME : Oh, BRB ME : Googling IMDB. ME : K. Back. ME : So, Miley Cyrus is da girl, Demi Moore is the mother. And there’s boys in every frame. ME : As if TMZ cast the movie hey? ME : LOL. ME : LOL is a combination of teen friendly [...]

Remember those old commercials for Certs? “It’s a breath mint,” they’d say. No, “it’s a candy mint.” It was really “two…two…two mints in one.” I bring this up because the new film “The Watch” is like a Certs. Actually many Certs. Evan (Stiller) is the guy every neighborhood has. Friendly and outgoing, Evan is eager [...]