Category: Movie Review

Principal Cast : Angourie Rice, Rachel Taylor, Julia Ormond, Vincent Perez, Susie Porter, Shane Jacobson, Ryan Corr, Nicholas Hammond, Noni Hazlehurst, Luke Pegler, Celia Massingham, Alison McGirr, Trent Baines.Synopsis:  A group of workers at a Sydney department store deal with their lives, their loves, and the growing immigration and integration throes of Australia in the 1950’s.  ***** Director Bruce Beresford tackles racial integration in Sydney’s bristling fashion circuit in the late 1950’s, as the notion of immigration comes to the fore in this genteel retelling of Madeline St John’s novel.…

Principal Cast : Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Taviri, Fernando Grediaga, Jorge Antonio Guerrero, Marco Graf, Daniela Demesa, Diego Cortina, Carlos Peralta, Nancy Garcia, Veronica Garcia, Jose Manuel Guerrero Mendoza. Synopsis:  A story that chronicles a year in the life of a middle-class family’s maid in Mexico City in the early 1970s. ****** It’s been five long years between films for director Alfonso Cuaron, the man behind such cult favourites as Children of Men, Y Tu Mama Tambien, the mid-90’s Great Expectations remake (which I hated) and 2013’s space-borne Gravity. The arrival of…

Principal Cast : Sandra Bullock, Trevante Rhodes, Jackie Weaver, Rosa Salazar, Daniella Macdonald, Colson Barker, Lil Rey Howery, Tom Hollander, BD Wong, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Sarah Paulson, John Malkovich, Vivian Lyra Blair, Julian Edwards, Parminda Nagra, Rebecca Pidgeon, Amy Gumenick, David Dastmalchian.Synopsis:  Five years after an ominous unseen presence drives most of society to suicide, a mother and her two children make a desperate bid to reach safety. ******** The latest global Netflix phenomenon is Bird Box, a clever little film starring Sandra Bullock based on the 2014 novel by Josh…

Principal Cast : Cher, Nicolas Cage, Olympia Dukakis, Vincent Gardenia, Danny Aiello, Julie Bovasso, Louis Guss, John Mahoney, Feodor Chaliapin Jr, Anita Gillette. Synopsis:  Loretta Castorini, a bookkeeper from Brooklyn, New York, finds herself in a difficult situation when she falls for the brother of the man she has agreed to marry. ******** Few films manage to capture the lustre of romance and the human condition to perfectly as Moonstruck. It’s one of those rare examples where the story, characters and performances all manifest into a masterclass of subgenre perfection, as close to…