Hail, Caesar!

‘Hail, Caesar!’ (Thanks Screen Queensland for the free tickets). I love every Coen Brothers movie for different reasons; their films are so packed with detail, strange tangents, odd characters, abrupt endings and so on that even when they don’t always quite hit the mark their work is still leagues ahead…

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The Wolf of Wall Street

The Wolf of Wall Street Manic, crazed, obsessive, extreme, indulgent – these words describe not just Jordan Belfort’s life as depicted in the film, but the entire film itself. It’s as if Scorsese, DiCaprio and just about everyone else were on some sort of drug through out the making of…

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Her

Her Another mind fuck from Spike Jonze and this time he’s showing us the pitfalls and promises of what it would be like to have a relationship with a computer program. Theodore (Joaquin Phoenix) seems destined to a single life after his relationship to his rather lovely partner ends, and…

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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty Ben Stiller directs and stars in this remake of the 1947 film and while he aims high, ultimately the film fails to achieve velocity. There’s lots of grand visuals and amazing stunts and daring-do but somehow it all just doesn’t come together. Perhaps it…

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