Following up her acclaimed but little seen 2016 family adventure film Swallows and Amazons, not to mention her plethora of television directing work on The Crown and Call the Midwife, filmmaker Phillipa Lowthorpe resurrects the origins of the UK Women's Liberation movement for Misbehaviour. Detailing a story that's worthy of a longer format than the 106 minutes it's afforded … [Read more...] about Misbehaviour – British Film Festival Review
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Richard Jewell – Film Review
Throughout his directorial career, Clint Eastwood has often subverted the ideals of heroism - specifically American heroism. From disrupting the view of the Western hero in Unforgiven (1992) to the unlikely saviour of Sully (2016), Eastwood has long dissected the concept of what it means to be a hero, and his experimentation within this process only continues with Richard … [Read more...] about Richard Jewell – Film Review
A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood – Film Review
As someone who has next to no knowledge of Mr. Rogers - and I'd wager I'm in a similar boat as the majority of Australian viewers on this - his personality is something of an anomaly when viewed in A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood. And that's not a criticism in any manner, and certainly not because we live in a rather cynical world, but because Mr. Rogers' inherit goodness … [Read more...] about A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood – Film Review
Fisherman’s Friends – Film Review
Fisherman's Friends, one of those predictable feel-good true story tales that recounts the type of event better suited to a morning show segment rather than being extended for 112 minutes, ticks so many boxes in terms of what narrative beats to hit that it feels more design-by-committee rather than an organic telling. Given that it is based on a true story though it's … [Read more...] about Fisherman’s Friends – Film Review
The Report – Film Review
A damning account of the CIA's use of enhanced interrogation, i.e. torture techniques, on suspected terrorists following the attacks of September 11th, The Report is an uncompromising film that adopts a documentary-type mentality in order to relay its story as unsensationally as possible. The titular report, dubbed "the torture report", is constantly at the centre of Scott Z. … [Read more...] about The Report – Film Review