By Richard Haridy May 15, 2013 There are a multitude of sordidly fascinating directions a biopic on Alfred Hitchcock could take. So, when Sacha Gervasi‘s flat and frothy Hitchcock concludes, it’s inevitably frustrating to find this film takes such a conventional path. Hitchcock opens right when the great man was at the top of his game, having just released the gloriously […]
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Television Revision: Doctor Who – Season 2
May 14, 2013 
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By Andrew Williams May 14, 2013 Television Revision is a weekly feature in which our tuned in TV critic trawls through the best the box has to offer, giving you a primer on some of history’s finest shows (and warning you away from the specific episodes – or even seasons! – that might have ruined […]
Read morePhone alone – The Call review
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By Jess Lomas May 14, 2013 In most horror films, the call comes from inside the house. In Brad Anderson’s thriller The Call it comes from the inside of a car’s trunk. It begins with Jordan Turner (Halle Berry), a 9-1-1 operator based in Los Angeles, answering teenager Leah Templeton’s (Evie Thompson) call to report an intruder. What […]
Read morePlay It Again – The Shining
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By Simon Miraudo May 14, 2013 Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has aged terribly. And yes, it takes its name from a famously misquoted Casablanca line (hey, whatever; it […]
Read moreWomen be chopping – Evil Dead review
May 13, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo May 13, 2013 We’ve crossed the Rubicon, people. I thought the wickedly funny satire The Cabin in the Woods had closed the book on this tired horror genre by tearing its tropes limb from limb. But, instead of letting it rest in peace, director Fede Alvarez had to pry it open and […]
Read morePlay It Again – Westworld
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By Jess Lomas May 8, 2013 Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has aged terribly. And yes, it takes its name from a famously misquoted Casablanca line (hey, whatever; […]
Read moreI am woman – Laurence Anyways review
May 7, 2013 0 Comments
By Richard Haridy May 7, 2013 French-Canadian Xavier Dolan is truly the definition of a wunderkind. Only 23 years old, he’s already made three critically acclaimed feature films, all of which premiered at Cannes. His latest, Laurence Anyways – a nearly three-hour opus telling the story of a transsexual man in the late 1980s and […]
Read moreNew York Stories – Some Velvet Morning / Tricked / Michael H. Profession: Director
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By Glenn Dunks May 7, 2013 There’s a wide world of cinema out there, and Quickflix’s Glenn Dunks is on the ground in New York City bringing you the titles that will soon be seen in Australian cinemas, and eventually available on home entertainment. The Manhattan Report: The Tribeca Film Festival was founded in 2002 by Robert […]
Read moreTelevision Revision: The Sopranos – Season 4
May 7, 2013 0 Comments
By Andrew Williams May 7, 2013 Television Revision is a weekly feature in which our tuned in TV critic trawls through the best the box has to offer, giving you a primer on some of history’s finest shows (and warning you away from the specific episodes – or even seasons! – that might have ruined […]
Read moreEyes on the Enterprise – Star Trek Into Darkness review
May 6, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo May 6, 2013 There’s a lot to like about Star Trek Into Darkness – J.J. Abrams‘ second foray into the cosmos aboard the once-rickety USS Enterprise – and even quite a bit to love. At times, it’s got swagger that rivals Captain James Tiberius Kirk’s own. Elsewhere, however, the screenplay’s cold Vulcan […]
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