Category: Film Reviews
Emma — Palace Cinemas — February–March 2020
Review by Michele E. Hawkins. Jane Austen’s beloved novel Emma, published in 1815, is once again brought to the screen, ...
The Lighthouse: Sometimes horror, sometimes comedy, regularly cryptic, but always entertaining and original
With the cinema domination in the 2010s of superhero franchises, remakes and reboots, immediate sequels, belated sequels cashing in on ...
Bad Boys for Life — Dendy Cinemas — February 2020
Seventeen years after the release of Bad Boys II, Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are back, still paired as police ...
The Peanut Butter Falcon — Dendy Cinemas — February 2020
Review by Michele E. Hawkins. Zak (played by Zack Gottsagen) is a young man who dreams of becoming a champion ...
A Beautiful Day in the Neighbourhood — Palace Cinemas — January–February 2020
For some three and a half decades, Fred Rogers was the host of a daily children’s television programme, “Mr Rogers’s ...
A Lovecraftian film with gloop ahoy and an unhinged Nicolas Cage? ‘Color Out Of Space’ me up!
What is a “Lovecraftian” film? Not being an expert on the works of the before-his-time author HP Lovecraft, and yet ...
Documentary ‘For Sama’ immerses the viewer into the war experience in Syria in an empathetic fashion
Journalist Waad al-Kateab was an economics student at Aleppo University at the start of the 2011 war President Assad waged ...
The Good Liar — Palace Cinemas — January 2020
Review by Michele E. Hawkins. Roy Courtnay (Ian McKellen) is a ruthless con artist who with a partner, Vincent (Jim ...
Jojo Rabbit — Palace Cinemas — January 2020
In 1943 Germany, 10-year-old Jojo (newcomer Roman Griffin Davis) holds imaginary conversations with his idol, the nation’s dictator, one Adolf ...
Timely ‘The Biggest Little Farm’ doco is a work of immense joy, and offers how we might learn not merely to get along with Mother Nature but to become best friends
When a promise to their rescue dog, Todd, that he was with his forever family leads filmmaking husband John Chester ...
