I wasn’t overly excited for Birds of Prey (and the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn), this latest DC Comics tale starring Margot Robbie as the shrink-turned-psycho Harley Quinn, fresh from her split with the Joker teaming up with a handful of other lesser known DC comic book characters. WOW – what a blast! From…

Michael Leunig is a prolific cartoonist famous for drawings of ducks, hearts and teapots. But for every cartoon full of whimsy, there’s one to punch you in the guts. On his 50th anniversary of being a professional cartoonist, a drawing of a parent pushing a pram looking at a phone while their child lay behind,…

It is fitting that the WW2 story of the Battle of Midway be told by Roland Emmerich, a director synonymous with “disaster porn” – blockbuster popcorn movies with enormous bodycounts including The Day After Tomorrow, Independence Day, 2012 and White House Down. A collector of Second World War memorabilia, here he sticks to the history…

Kristen Stewart plays Jean Seberg, an actress from the American Mid-West who found fame as Patricia in French New Wave classic Breathless in 1960. The film kicks off in 1968 as Seberg leaves her husband and young son behind in Paris while she travels to Hollywood to film Paint Your Wagon, co-starring Clint Eastwood. On…

Tom Hanks is one of the most watchable people on the planet. Over the Summer school holidays our family has been rewatching a lot of his classic movies. From Cast Away to Forrest Gump, he’s a got a face you can emotionally invest in. Throw in a random selection of other titles like Captain Phillips,…

Amidst the modern landscape of blockbuster franchises dominating the big screen , a film like The Peanut Butter Falcon can easily slip between the cracks. But this is a film that deserves to be seen by a broad audience. On paper it is a pretty unlikely recipe for a hit movie, but this is a…

I’m not sure the years have been so kind to our Bad Boys. Martin Lawrence hasn’t exactly set the world on fire with titles like Big Momma’s House…and Big Momma’s House 2, while Will Smith seems to have done alright, despite his last two blockbusters (Aladdin and Gemini Man) earning dire reviews. Still, he is…

When you have a film with Oscar winners including Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman, who star as FOX News anchors Megyn Kelly, and Gretchen Carlson respectively, alongside Oscar nominees John Lithgow and Margot Robbie, who play FOX News founder Roger Ailes and fictional new recruit Kayla Pospisil, the expectations for a sensational movie are understandably…

It would be hard to go wrong with a cast that includes Laura Dern, Meryl Streep and Saoirse Ronan. Throw in director Greta Gerwig who teamed up with Ronan for 2017’s Lady Bird a film about the turbulence of adolescence that won 2 Golden Globes, and you have the makings of a classic take on…

The voices of Tom Holland and Will Smith star in this animated take on spy classics like Bond and Bourne, with Holland’s Walter Beckett, a science geek who turns Smith’s Agent Lance Sterling into a pigeon to go undercover as they are tasked with taking out criminal mastermind Killian voiced by Aussie Ben Mendelsohn. It’s…

Nobody really expected a lot of 2017’s Jumanji reboot Welcome to The Jungle. But the update to the beloved Robin Williams film, with The Rock, Jack Black, Kevin Hart and Karen Gillan as video game avatars zipping around Hawaii was a global smash, grossing close to a Billion dollars, taking $50 million dollars in Australia,…

Much has been said about the final instalment in the Skywalker Saga. Our family has looked forward to the film by watching the previous 8 films on Disney+. There are some beauties and a shocker or two. Rise of Skywalker lands somewhere in the middle, neither the best nor the worst, but a fitting tribute…