Film

“Rise of Planet of the Apes” is more than a fitting prequel to the 1968 classic “Planet of the Apes”. It is also a cautionary tale of human greed, aggression and ignorance.The dramatic opening scenes of a rampaging chimpanzee in a biotech lab…

Last year that film was street artist Banksy’s unforgettably enigmatic Exit Through the Gift Shop. This year it is my firm belief that that film is Morgan Spurlock’s hilarious documentary POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold…

Lars von Trier courted controversy at Cannes, his misguided humour threatening to overshadow the screening of his latest cinematic offering, Melancholia. Lucky for von Trier, he has produced a film of such beauty…

Terminal illness, people smuggling and lean times aren’t normally the makings of a particularly funny film, but that is part of what makes Le Havre so special. Kaurismäki dares to poke fun at life, no matter how terrible, with warmth and humanity…

It polarized audiences at Cannes and has divided critics since it’s release, now Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life has finally arrived on our shores to no less a divisive reception, but this was always going to be the case.

As a teen Karen Carey’s soul was touched and awakened to a new level through encountering Bach’s St Matthew Passion. Fast forward several decades and Karen is now a secondary school music director at a Sydney private girls school…

The Big Picture is a French film that revolves around the successful lawyer, Paul Exben (Roman Duris) and his slowly but typically eroding nuclear family life and how a New Zealand wine plays its part in revealing his wife’s lover…

The TT3D: Closer to the Edge audience looked slightly different to the typical, fashionable film review crowd. A group of ten guys slipped into the row in front of us, at least seven of whom were wearing motor-racing jackets…

In Bill Cunningham New York, film-maker Richard Press follows photographer Bill Cunningham’s gentle, observational model in this gem of a film about the man who invented the notion of street style photography…

It is with supreme confidence that I shimmied off to the preview of Cars 2 with my eight-year-old son riding shotgun. We have come to expect greatness from Pixar – from the Pretty Much Perfect Trilogy of Toy Story, through to ‘Finding Nemo’…