by Michael Coghlan | Jan 4, 2019 | Film, Reviews, Theatre
Festival Theatre, Thu 3 Jan, 2019. Adapted by Carolyn Burns and directed by Simon Phillips, Adelaide Festival Centre presents Kay + McLean Productions’ North By Northwest. This production attempts to bring an action movie to the live stage, and it’s quite impressive....
by Dave Bradley | Oct 4, 2018 | DVDs, Film, Reviews
Defiant Screen Entertainment, Rated M 2.5 stars (out of 5) Drawn from George Harrar’s book of almost the same name, this ponderous, pseudo-intellectual psychodrama has a pretty good lead performance by Guy Pearce as a character it’s impossible to like, but the slow...
by Dave Bradley | Oct 3, 2018 | Film, Reviews
2.5 stars (out of 5) Kevin Hart is a huge name in America but remains significantly less loved elsewhere, and this unsurprisingly ludicrous comedy again demonstrates just how much of his shrieking shtick was stolen outright from Chris Tucker (from the Rush Hour...
by Adrian Miller | Sep 25, 2018 | Film, Reviews
2.5 stars (out of 5) The third Johnny English movie in 15 years is just as dismal and irksome as the others, with still-rubbery star Rowan Atkinson in gormless twit mode yet again and looning about desperate for a laugh into (yes, it’s true!) his early 60s. JE is his...
by Dave Bradley | Sep 21, 2018 | Film, Reviews
The Predator, an alien beastie that can only be described as a humanoid reptile with icky mandibles, pseudo-Rasta dreads and a seriously bad attitude, has been popular since 1987’s original Arnold-Schwarzenegger-starring Predator, and has also appeared in 1990’s...
by Dave Bradley | Sep 18, 2018 | Film, Reviews
3.5 stars (out of 5) American Jesse Peretz directs this filming of Englishman Nick Hornby’s 2009 novel, complete with his sister Evgenia as one of the co-script-adaptors and Judd Apatow amongst the producers, and the result is one of the wryest, funniest films in...
