Based on the book by economist Steven Levitt and journalist Stephen Dubner, ‘Freakonomics’ is a collection of four mini-documentaries (each with a different director), loosely tied together by discussions between Levitt and Dubner. The subject matter covered by each director… (READ MORE)
Transformation is the underlying theme of this beautifully shot and delicately paced film starring George Clooney in the lead role as, Jack ‘The American’. Jack is an assassin of expert skill and craftsmanship, who has become increasingly disenchanted with his… (READ MORE)
Every year, as soon as I read Gracia’s ever-wondrous tales about MIFF (the Melbourne International Film Festival), I know that BIFF (the Brisbane International Film Festival) won’t be too far away … It’s about the same time that I start… (READ MORE)
Moon is set at a point ‘in the future’, but combines new technology with old-school science fiction movie styling to make it a movie which could almost be set in ‘any time’. Astronaut Sam Bell (Sam Rockwell) is due to… (READ MORE)
Anna Wintour, as the editor-in-chief of Vogue for over 20 years, has become a one-woman legend in the fashion world. Like many incredibly successful fashion ‘legends’, Wintour tends to polarise people’s opinions of her. Some see her as a hard-nosed,… (READ MORE)
Black Dynamite is a former CIA agent who is called back into service when ‘the man’ attacks his family, gets children addicted to drugs and takes the fight to African-American men in a very personal way. Set in the 1970’s,… (READ MORE)
Tragedy has a way of defining portions of our lives, almost in reverse. First comes the end of something – how things were before something terrible happened, and secondly comes the beginning – the start of something after that terrible… (READ MORE)