Chronicle ★ ★ ★ ★1/2

Release Dates:  Australia 2nd Feb   USA:  3rd Feb    UK: 1st Feb   Other Countries Super powers meet super filmmakers  Teen angst is a commonly explored theme in film.  Those tricky years are fraught with sexual, emotional and self-worth issues.  Over the past year, a few films of this ilk spring to mind, Gus Van Sant’s RESTLESS, SUBMARINE, and NEVER LET ME GO.  In general, they remain...

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The Artist ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Hugo ★ ★ ½

The Artist  Release Dates: Australia  2ND February 2012USA 20th January 2012      UK 30th December 2011   Other countries Hugo Release Dates: Australia  12th January 2012  Other countries WHEN SILENCE IS GOLDEN  A film reviewer is a film lover and we happily take the good with the bad, watching the hundreds of movies a year that our passion demands.  We groan restlessly...

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Young Adult ★ ★★ ★

Release Date: Australia 19th January, 2012, Other CountriesEVERYTHING BEAUTIFUL IS MADE UGLYIn watching “Young Adult”, directed and produced by Jason Reitman, there was some personal satisfaction for me, in the disaster that had become Mavis Gary’s (Charlize Theron—“Monster,” “The Road”) life.  In being one of the unattractive skinny girls at school, I worked out that to survive you need a plan.  There was a boy in my class, surprisingly...

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The Darkest Hour ★

Releases:  Australia 19th January,  Other CountriesInvisible aliens star in an invisible plot'The Darkest Hour' should be renamed 'The Darkest 89 Minutes of Cinema'.  After recently watching one of the best sci-fi films of the past decade 'Attack the Block’, I believe there should be a moratorium on films involving aliens invading the planet.  We have seen the best and we don’t need anymore.  It seems every year we must...

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JOURNEY TWO: THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND ★★ ★

Release Dates: Australia 19th January,  USA  10th February,  UK 3rd February Other Countries IT’S A JOURNEY FOR LITTLE PEOPLEAll aboard folks, it’s another journey film.  Don those 3D glasses and we are off and running from huge lizards, flying through storms, falling through gigantic eggs, and diving into oceans to escape lava.This time around, after unlocking a secret code transmitted by his missing grandfather, Sean Anderson...

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