The musical is a rare film genre these days with La La Land one of the few recent examples. It seems the broad theatrical acting, cheesy scenarios and often clunky combination of real world drama and song-and-dance fantasy stretches credulity a little too far for the more cynical modern audience. It’s a credit largely to the song writing genius of
Read moreIn 2005 Love Actually set the benchmark for rom-coms featuring a large sprawling cast of name actors playing characters whose personal and professional lives intertwine in a quirky, amusing and sometimes bittersweet fashion. Love Actually was also a Christmas movie and successfully infused its romantic tales with the elation and pain of Christmas. Love, The Coopers attempts something similar with
Read moreGreenberg and Frances Ha director Noah Baumbach’s latest film While We’re Young is an insightful, sporadically funny comedy/drama about artistic integrity, the disappointments of middle age and the cultural clash between Generations X and Y. Oddly this film has been sold as a light relationship comedy but it’s a more substantial film than that. Ben Stiller and Naomi Watts star
Read moreLovelace dramatises the life of Linda Boreman better known as Linda Lovelace who achieved notoriety as the star of iconic 1970’s porno movie Deep Throat and later became a prominent feminist and anti-porn campaigner. Focusing mainly on the events surrounding the release of Deep Throat, Lovelace is a well-made but ultimately unsatisfying drama that skates across the surface of Linda’s
Read moreEpic, the latest big-budget animated adventure from Blue Sky studios which gave us the Ice Age films among others, is based on William Joyce’s book The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs. In a storyline that may prove confusing for littlies, Mary Katherine or MK (Amanda Seyfried) returns to her family home to visit her ultra-nerdy scientist dad (Jason
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