A dark modern fairy tale crossed with an international spy thriller, Hanna is an exhilarating film that draws on a range of cultural anxieties surrounding
Year: 2011
Film review – Mr. Popper’s Penguins (2011)
At least a film about penguins being kept in a New York apartment provides a new spin on the animals running amuck theme. The penguins’
Film review – Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 (2011)
Ten years after the first film was released and fourteen years after the original novel was published, the Harry Potter saga comes to a close.
DVD review – Reign of Assassins (2010), Region 4, Madman
Set during the Ming Dynasty in China, Reign of Assassins is a period martial arts film, with more of a focus on swordplay than hand-to-hand
MIFF 2011 Blog-a-thon: Feature and short film picks
It’s almost Melbourne International Film Festival time, so I’m starting up the MIFF diary yet again. This year I’ll be seeing and reporting on a
Film review – Taxi Driver (1976)
In 1983 director David Cronenberg curated a science fiction retrospective for the Toronto Film Festival and his provocative selections included Martin Scorsese’s 1976 masterpiece Taxi
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