Noomi Rapace
In an isolated mountain village in 19th century Macedonia, a young girl is kidnapped and then transformed into a witch by an ancient spirit.
A couple discovers a mysterious newborn on their farm. The unexpected prospect of family life brings them much joy, before ultimately destroying them.
In post-World War II America, a woman kidnaps her neighbor and seeks vengeance for the heinous war crimes she believes he committed against her.
Unfortunately, our hero has fallen victim to the sophomore slump; Jack Ryan has made a lackluster return to our screens for season 2.
Alex Lines latest festival report from Melbourne International Film Festival features reviews of The Lodge, Angel of Mine and The Unknown Saint.
Stockholm is successful in doing the impossible – making the viewer understand and even empathize with the interpersonal connection between a hostage and her captor, and vice versa.
Stockholm is based on the absurd but true 1973 bank heist and hostage crisis in Sweden as the origins of the ‘Stockholm Syndrome’.
Close is frustratingly shallow, and in its breakneck pace leaves some of its character development in the dust, while trying to wring every bit of emotion out of its quieter moments.
Bright is a film trying too hard, with an execution that leaves something to be desired. What is good gets smothered under the excess, and while it might keep some entertained it doesn’t stick with you.
While full of plot holes and shakes characters, What Happened to Monday is still a weird, yet perfect movie for a night in.
Despite some well-directed action sequences, Unlocked is mostly fleeting entertainment, inserting nothing new into a tired-out spy genre.
Two great performances are wasted in Rupture, a mess of a horror movie which sets up mysteries it doesn’t even know how to answer.
Even though I may make it look like any idiot can do it, writing reviews is far from easy. The hardest things to review aren’t the plot-heavy science fiction movies or the obscure art house efforts with impenetrable plots like you would imagine – the most difficult movies to review are the films that are just plain boring. I watched Child 44 two days ago, where I made up 100% of the audience for that screening – in the two days since, I have found myself struggling to remember quite a lot of it.
In Dead Man Down, Colin Farrell plays Victor/Laszlo (whom I’ll just call Victor henceforth), a Hungarian gangster who’s part of an organized crime syndicate. We soon find out he is not who he pretends to be. The movie opens with a talk about children, which nicely sets the mood and foreshadows some of the movie’s story.
