The 14 Directives of the sisterhood watched a number of films that are centred on choreographed ironic violence that failed to engage. I’ve also watched a number ‘female empowerment’ films — some of which are highly celebrated. One of these even was initiated by our...
When Eddie breaks into a luxury SUV, he steps into a deadly trap set by William, a self-proclaimed vigilante delivering his own brand of twisted justice. With no means of escape, Eddie must fight to survive in a ride where escape is an illusion, survival is a nightmare, and justice shifts into high gear.
Eye Outside no value here; this comment is about a key technique, and setting aside my aversion to the acting stance that Hopkins has settled into. I don’t think it quite earns the right to be a genre, but we do have ‘containment’ films, where...
Vulgar, taunting texts blow up the phones of a teen and her boyfriend. Who's sending them — and why? This twisty documentary reveals the shocking answer.
What’s known and unknown a story here that many folks find interesting: in a tiny US town, hundreds of disturbing text messages are sent to a teen couple, and then later focusing on the girl. School chums are suspected, accused. Turns out to disturbingly be...
An Interpol-issued Red Notice is a global alert to hunt and capture the world's most wanted. But when a daring heist brings together the FBI's top profiler and two rival criminals, there's no telling what will happen.
Cleopatra’s Omelet formula film with no merit whatever. Three highly paid characters more or less being themselves, which doesn’t add to much. There is some travel, and some action as per what the bosses like. Enough viewers seem to as well. Ms Gadot is pretty...
Settle into your chair and be transported to a place both familiar and alien; where a giant shop-girl can barely fit in her store, there's a weird green pod in every bedroom, and terrifying wood nymphs provide a heartbroken woman with the anatomically correct fruit everyone seems to covet. In the end we are left, like Alice, with the Red King's conundrum: are we dreaming them or are they dreaming us?
Nipple Dreams is quirky, erotic from an unusual direction, and quite sad until the end. I see some few summaries on the web, very few, and they get it all wrong. The narrative is not quite non-linear, but needs some untangling. The black and white scenes...
Trying to leave their troubled lives behind, twin brothers return to their hometown to start again, only to discover that an even greater evil is waiting to welcome them back.
Visual Music like Jodorowsky but instead of Chilean mysticism, African voodoo, or what we think so through prior films. Something culturally like ‘Snatch’, ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’, and ‘Kill Bill 2’ rolled together. Grand cinematic skill but in the small. Like another recent film (‘The...
When intelligence agent Kathryn Woodhouse is suspected of betraying the nation, her husband – also a legendary agent – faces the ultimate test of whether to be loyal to his marriage, or his country.
Section 39 am designating this as the first ‘four’ of 2025. I allow myself only two films from a year that have this recommendation. They are the films that I think either changed filmdom, or changed me and it is rare that a mainstream film...
Five years after the events of Jurassic World Dominion, covert operations expert Zora Bennett is contracted to lead a skilled team on a top-secret mission to secure genetic material from the world's three most massive dinosaurs. When Zora's operation intersects with a civilian family whose boating expedition was capsized, they all find themselves stranded on an island where they come face-to-face with a sinister, shocking discovery that's been hidden from the world for decades.
Clones really dislike David Koepp’s work, with one exception. He seems to absorb the world of the filmmaker, and amplifies his (always his) vision. In this case, we have a few set pieces that deliver no unexpected situation whatever — just sequences of narrow escapes...
A brilliant, eccentric detective must solve a murder in the White House residence — where the staff and guests at a state dinner are all suspects.
Layers history of film centres on an understanding of noir and how it has become a game between filmmaker and viewer. Central to that is the detective story. The pinnacle of that genre is Agatha Christie but no film has translated well until now. I...
Sophie’s Choice little family has watched this since the beginning, which I believe was before the COVID lockdowns. It is part of a franchise in other nations — this is the Australian version. I’ve dipped into a few of the other nations and found the...
