Perspectives

Few figures on the contemporary scene are as controversial as Edward Snowden, the former intelligence officer who in 2013 revealed to the press the existence of a secret National S[Read more...]

Beginning with 1979's The Europeans, the producer-director team of Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, whose partnership was already of 15 years standing, churned out a succession of [Read more...]

Putting Tom Hanks in the cockpit as everybody's favourite aviator, US Airways Captain Chesley Sullenberger, and bringing Clint Eastwood on board to direct him certainly sounds like[Read more...]

Starring: Clive Owen, Jaeden Lieberher, Mario Bello, and Patton Oswalt. Directed by Bob Nelson. Rated PG (Mild themes, coarse language and violence). 101min. This Canadian drama te[Read more...]

When Daniel Petre wrote the ground-breaking Father Time back in 1998, it was both a reflection of his own experiences as a dad, and an outcry against cultural trends which have cau[Read more...]

While it uses animation to recount the fantastical adventures of a young boy, Kubo and the Two Strings (Focus) is not really suitable for the most youthful moviegoers.[Read more...]

It has been 57 years since the last film version of Ben-Hur hit movie theatres. That alone is, for most Hollywood types, reason enough for a remake.[Read more...]

In the world of travel guides, accounts of people travelling around the globe, and becoming acquainted with strangers are not uncommon. [Read more...]

Like the World War II-era New York socialite it profiles, Florence Foster Jenkins (Paramount), a charmingly eccentric blend of comedy and drama, has its heart in the right place.[Read more...]

For many, Jane Austen’s name is synonymous with love and romance, a somewhat false representation of the author who was equally skilled at portraying the subtle power struggles amo[Read more...]

Nearly all the characters in Jason Bourne (Universal) are under surveillance, being hacked, or in the gun sight of a government assassin.[Read more...]

The increasingly popular trend of adult colouring books has been given a boost with the release of the second book by best-selling Australian illustrator, Lorien Atwood.[Read more...]

Having worked for ten years as Senior Chaplain for Prisons in Western Australia, Paul Gill was in a good position upon retirement to write about the experiences facing chaplains an[Read more...]

The starkly beautiful minimalist masterpiece that is Ida (Music Box) adroitly navigates two horrific eras of Polish history as an aspiring nun discovers her true identity.[Read more...]

Between 1846 and 1848, Don Angelo Confalonieri undertook a mission to Aboriginal people at Port Essington, now part of Australia’s Northern Territory, where Britain established the[Read more...]

Few films released over the last several decades have embedded themselves as firmly in the public consciousness as the 1984 comedy, Ghostbusters.[Read more...]

Like its source material, Roald Dahl's eponymous1982 children's book, The BFG (Disney) comes packed with specialised terms for its own fantasy elements.[Read more...]

Just beneath the surface of The Legend of Tarzan, a Gilbert and Sullivan opera is trying to claw its way out.[Read more...]

Something like pondering leftovers discovered in the back of the refrigerator, a movie studio decided, "Hey! This hasn't gone bad!"[Read more...]

Chasing Asylum documents the lives of asylum seekers sent by Australia’s refugee policy into offshore detention centres on Manus Island and Nauru. [Read more...]