Goose bumps are ‘de rigueur’ for a Christmas film and Joyeux Noël provides plenty of them, says reviewer Mary-Lou Ciampa in the latest instalment of the upstart Christmas project.
Midnight in Paris is Woody Allen’s romanticised expression of love to the city and its dreamy, bohemian streak, says Suzannah Marshall Macbeth.
upstart will be celebrating the Christmas season by reviewing some of our favourite Christmas films. Get festive and contribute!
Goose bumps are ‘de rigueur’ for a Christmas film and Joyeux Noël provides plenty of them, says reviewer Mary-Lou Ciampa in the latest instalment of the upstart Christmas project.
Midnight in Paris is Woody Allen’s romanticised expression of love to the city and its dreamy, bohemian streak, says Suzannah Marshall Macbeth.
upstart will be celebrating the Christmas season by reviewing some of our favourite Christmas films. Get festive and contribute!
With the northern summer blockbuster season of 2013 winding down, Tom Midwood looks back at what Hollywood had to offer.
Goose bumps are ‘de rigueur’ for a Christmas film and Joyeux Noël provides plenty of them, says reviewer Mary-Lou Ciampa in the latest instalment of the upstart Christmas project.
Midnight in Paris is Woody Allen’s romanticised expression of love to the city and its dreamy, bohemian streak, says Suzannah Marshall Macbeth.
upstart will be celebrating the Christmas season by reviewing some of our favourite Christmas films. Get festive and contribute!
Johnny English Reborn is predictable and silly, but Suzannah Marshall Macbeth says it succeeds as a parody of the Bond spy genre and turns out to be so much more fun in the process.
The movie Red Dog is based on the true story of a dog who became famous for his travels across Western Australia’s Pilbara region in the 1970s. Suzannah Marshall Macbeth was moved by this evocative, funny story of a community brought together by a dog.
Rodrick may rule, but ‘Diary of a Wimpy Kid 2’ failed to impress as a sequel, says upstart’s Penny Evangelou.
Director Brad Furman turns what could have been a boring courtroom drama into a Hollywood hit in ‘The Lincoln Lawyer’, says Penny Evangelou.
Matt Damon is a man relentlessly trying to defy the ‘officers’ of Fate in his latest Hollywood blockbuster. It’s a somewhat thrilling ride, says Khairun Hamid.
Jeff Bridges stars in the new Coen brothers film about revenge and redemption in the Wild West. It’s a film that gives you much more than just guns and bluster, says reviewer Renee Tibbs.
Darren Aronofsky is back, and his dark and disturbed ballet film Black Swan, nominated for five Oscars, will stay with you, says reviewer James Madden.
There’s no denying its visual appeal, but does Tron: Legacy have substance beneath its style? Renee Tibbs reviews the special effects extravaganza.
A story that charts the waxing and waning love of a young couple by crossing and jumping to different time periods, Blue Valentine is not your usual film. James Madden reviews this Boxing Day release.
In ‘The kids are all right’, siblings Joni and Laser look for their biological father and bring him into their family. James Madden reviews.
The Ghost Writer is an exciting and eye-pleasing political thriller but does the plot hold any surprises? Meghan Lodwick reviews.
Clara Law’s ‘Like a Dream’, which is screening at the Melbourne International Film Festival, has stunning shots of Shanghai and a moving soundtrack. But, Sarah Green wonders, is it enough to make up for its irritating narrative?
Director Radu Mihaileanu has brought a French/Russian masterpiece to the screen, with an unusual but hilarious and moving story, says James Madden.
It’s Oscar season and our film reviewers have got the fever. James Madden checks out an advance screening of ‘The Blind Side’, a flick up for a couple of the big ones; Best Picture and Best Actress.
It’s been a long hard road for Australian director John Hillcoat’s adaptation of the Cormac McCarthy classic post-apocalyptic novel ‘The Road’. Faced with multiple production setbacks and numerous release switch-ups, Hillcoat overcomes them all, turning in a refreshingly new take on the disaster film. Minus the disaster.
Avatar has literally added a new dimension to the cinema experience, according to upstart’s film critic Michael Calle.
