THE Marvel Comics company must be more than marvelling at how successful their movie franchise has been over the past 10 years or so: X Men trilogy, Spiderman trilogy, Daredevil, Ghost Rider, more Batman films, Wolverine coming up soon and plans for a number of the popular comic books to be brought to big-screen life...
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THE PAINTED VEIL – An exploration into forgiveness
THE PAINTED VEIL: Starring Edward Norton, Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber...
Read More »PARIS
CITIES such as Paris live as vividly in our imagination as in reality...
Read More »GONE BABY GONE
THE Boston neighbourhood of Dorchester is a gritty, working-class area lined with the wreckage of broken families and dreams...
Read More »HOW SHE MOVE – Morale of the young lifted through dance
Sometimes film reviewers become more expert in areas that they don't necessarily aspire to...
Read More »LARS AND THE REAL GIRL
Most reviewers (and some internet bloggers who really like the film) offer warnings not to be put off by any film synopsis that readers come across...
Read More »THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES – A realm of fantasy
THE SPIDERWICK CHRONICLES is a very satisfying magical adventure for all except the very young and the very impressionable - it has the elements of fairy tales and nightmares...
Read More »NIM’S ISLAND
NIM'S Island is a family-action adventure yarn that is an adaptation of a story written by Wendy Orr who had a role in writing the film's script...
Read More »HEY HEY IT’S ESTHER BLUEBURGER – Charming tale of exuberance
THIS is an accomplished first film for writer-director Cathy Randall, drawing on her Sydney school experiences after she moved from South Africa to Australia aged 7...
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