Image Credit: Focus Features Emma is an enjoyable film based on the Jane Austen classic novel of the same name. Miss Woodhouse fills her days by keeping her father in good company and matchmaking her friends. You might wonder if they needed to remake Jane Austen's Emma after the 1996 version staring Gyntha Paltrow. But this is a delightful version and the appearance of … [Read more...] about Emma – Film Review
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Portrait of a Lady on Fire – Brisbane International Film Festival Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn_-YoG69Sw A love story whose tragic finale is conveyed in the film's opening shot yet is still utterly painful when it's ultimately conjured, Portrait of a Lady on Fire is a beautiful, masterfully still film. A period piece that details the lives of two 18th century women over the course of one fateful week, Celine Sciamma's dramatic romance … [Read more...] about Portrait of a Lady on Fire – Brisbane International Film Festival Review
The Roadhouse by Kerry McGinnis – Book Review
The Roadhouse by Kerry McGinnis is her eleventh novel, a suspenseful mystery set in the Australian Outback region, which Kerry loves and knows so well. It begins when Charlie Carver, who is already questioning her acting abilities and her chances of finding work in Melbourne, learns of her cousin, Annabelle’s, suicide. She decides to fly home to be with her mother, who … [Read more...] about The Roadhouse by Kerry McGinnis – Book Review
Five Feet Apart – Film Review
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nP3ddhlpct4 Just as emotionally manipulative as fellow teen fare like A Walk To Remember and If I Stay, but less as effective as Me, Earl and the Dying Girl and The Fault in Our Stars, Five Feet Apart is typically schmaltzy and insultingly pedestrian, but, as cinematic history has demonstrated, deliver on exactly what you promise - which … [Read more...] about Five Feet Apart – Film Review
If Beale Street Could Talk – Film Review
https://youtu.be/N4m3t3G3Zqc The success Barry Jenkins earned off the reception of Moonlight is something of a double-edged sword. Whilst that film's (eventual) Best Picture Oscar win no doubt helped his adaption of James Baldwin's If Beale Street Could Talk get off the ground, it also means this film will be viewed under a harsher microscope, given that we know as to … [Read more...] about If Beale Street Could Talk – Film Review