By Glenn Dunks August 13, 2014 Directors Lucky McKee (May) and Chris Sivertson (I Know Who Killed Me) have fashioned a gory take on the mythos of American high school life in All Cheerleaders Die, a witchy horror comedy that acts somewhat like a pick-and-mix cross between The Craft, Jennifer’s Body, Jawbreaker, and Bring It […]
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Play It Again – Sophie’s Choice
August 5, 2014 
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By Glenn Dunks August 5, 2014 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 […]
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July 25, 2014 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks July 25, 2014 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 […]
Continue readingDeath takes a holiday – Still Life review
July 22, 2014 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks July 22, 2014 The life of a man with what could surely be described as one of the most depressing jobs in England is examined with fine precision in Uberto Pasolini’s Still Life. The subject matter may appear overly dour for the man who was Oscar-nominated for producing feel-good comedy The Full […]
Continue readingStill burns – Endless Love review
July 4, 2014 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks July 4, 2014 If Hollywood insists upon remaking movies left and right, then it makes more sense for them to do it to the likes of Endless Love. The original, a button-pushing romance best remembered for its famous theme song, has been remade by Shana Feste in the sun-drenched style of a clothing […]
Continue readingBloodless – Vampire Academy review
July 1, 2014 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks July 1, 2014 Rarely have I felt such disconnect between material and the actors tasked with performing it as I did with Mark Waters’ Vampire Academy. A little bit Mean Girls (which Waters directed) and a whole lot Buffy the Vampire Slayer, but sadly nowhere near as good as either, this weak […]
Continue readingThe man show – Out of the Furnace review
June 24, 2014 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks June 24, 2014 Somewhere hidden beneath the frequently indecipherable growls that make up Scott Cooper’s Out of the Furnace may just be an interesting movie. However, laboured as it is with sledgehammer-subtle metaphors and a cast of overtly gruff male actors doing insufferably one-note performances, Cooper’s second feature after the Oscar-winning Crazy […]
Continue readingPlay It Again – American Splendor
June 4, 2014 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks June 4, 2014 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 […]
Continue readingHomeland – Utopia review
May 22, 2014 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks May 22, 2014 Is there a more ironic film title this year than John Pilger’s Utopia? Rather than the idyllic paradise the word suggests, the notoriously prickly British journalist has taken the central Australian indigenous township of Utopia (a real place that has no roads or electricity to support its poverty-stricken inhabitants) […]
Continue readingPlay It Again – E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
May 13, 2014 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks May 13, 2014 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 […]
Continue readingBloody is the new black – Raze review
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By Glenn Dunks May 12, 2014 ‘Lean, mean fighting machine’ is an apt way to describe both Josh C. Waller’s Raze and the characters populating it. It’s a slickly produced, no holds barred action film that puts flesh to flesh in a violent frenzy of faux female empowerment and quickly loses whatever pulpy, sleazy grindhouse […]
Continue readingTake the money – Fading Gigolo review
April 29, 2014 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks April 29, 2014 It’s telling that John Turturro cast Woody Allen in his latest directorial effort given that the director/writer/star’s Fading Gigolo is desperate to be ‘a Woody Allen film’ for a new generation. Blithely crude in execution if not spirit, this odd-shaped romantic comedy aims for sweet, but only gets there […]
Continue readingGolden girl – Philomena review
April 23, 2014 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks December 5, 2013 (Republished April 23, 2014) Stephen Frears directs movies that are hard to actively dislike. While his more recent titles like The Queen and Mrs. Henderson Presents have tended away from the youthful dynamism of his earlier work, he nonetheless tells compelling stories with a lack of directorial fluff. Such […]
Continue readingGirl trouble – The Invisible Woman review
April 23, 2014 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks April 23, 2014 Was it a cruel joke by director Ralph Fiennes to cast Felicity Jones in the title role of his Charles Dickens’ biopic (or sorts), The Invisible Woman. As if deliberately choosing to cast the most milquetoast actor he could find to be ‘invisible’, Jones is completely unable to register […]
Continue readingPlay It Again – In Cold Blood
April 22, 2014 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks April 22, 2014 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 […]
Continue readingPlay It Again – Fargo
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By Glenn Dunks April 2, 2014 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 […]
Continue readingThe write stuff – Adult World review
March 20, 2014 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks March 20, 2014 Finally, pornography peddling poets get a film all their own in Scott Coffey’s frisky comedy, Adult World. Amy (Emma Roberts) is a wannabe poet superstar, the kind who thinks she’s the next great artiste and who wouldn’t commit suicide by sticking her head in the oven because that would […]
Continue readingGuts and bolts – I, Frankenstein review
March 20, 2014 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks March 20, 2014 In what can only be described as a mess from start to finish, Stuart Beattie‘s I, Frankenstein takes the famed Mary Shelley story and adapts it into an ugly catastrophe. Devoid of any appeal that isn’t concentrated around star Aaron Eckhart’s impeccably-sculpted muscles, this effects-laden lump of cinematic coal […]
Continue readingPlay It Again – Around the World in 80 Days
March 5, 2014 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks March 5, 2014 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 […]
Continue readingHayao technology – The Wind Rises review
February 25, 2014 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks February 25, 2014 “Artists are only creative for ten years,” says the lead character of Hayao Miyazaki’s The Wind Rises. Given the Japanese animation legend has been writing and directing for 35 years – his debut was 1979’s The Castle of Cagliostro – that’s a particularly glum career assessment and likely the […]
Continue readingRemember Paris – Le Week-End review
February 18, 2014 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks February 18, 2014 Getting the jump on the Before franchise’s ‘senior citizen’ edition is Le Week-End, director Roger Michell’s mature side-step from previous works like Notting Hill. As if to further accentuate the similarities to Richard Linklater’s trilogy, Le Week-End even casts beautiful Julie Delpy-lookalike Lindsay Duncan, who stars with Jim Broadbent […]
Continue readingPlay It Again – Ben-Hur
February 18, 2014 2 Comments
By Glenn Dunks February 18, 2014 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 […]
Continue readingScusi for partyrocking – The Great Beauty review
January 22, 2014 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks January 22, 2014 Italy is a nation at war with itself in The Great Beauty. This recent Academy Award nominee sees revered director Paolo Sorrentino strike a delicate balance between the old, nostalgically traditional way of life with the jolting energy of contemporary culture, as the two somewhat uncomfortably merge together. For […]
Continue readingNew York Stories – Philomena / Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
December 5, 2013 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks December 6, 2013 The Manhattan Report: The two films we’re discussing today are an interesting look at the dynamics of awards season. Philomena and Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom are two of Harvey Weinstein’s horses in the Oscar race, but he is a smart man and he knows his audiences. Philomena, for […]
Continue readingNew York Stories: How I Live Now / Charlie Countryman
November 20, 2013 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks November 20, 2013 The Manhattan Report: The two films reviewed this week share little in common (certainly not quality) except that they both flopped at the US box office. In the case of Kevin Macdonald’s WWIII teen drama How I Live Now, it’s especially disappointing. With The Hunger Games ruling the roost […]
Continue readingNew York Stories – Blue is the Warmest Colour / 12 Years a Slave
November 6, 2013 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks November 6, 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: There’s something quite satisfying about living in a city in […]
Continue readingNew York Stories – Romeo and Juliet / All Is Lost / CBGB
October 23, 2013 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks October 23, 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: Last weekend saw the release of J.C. Chandor’s All Is […]
Continue readingNew York Stories – Enough Said / The Wind Rises / After Tiller
September 25, 2013 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks September 25, 2013 The Manhattan Report: The biggest film fest in the biggest city is about to kick off with the 51st annual New York Film Festival. Like seemingly every other festival on the planet, New York’s has grown rapidly over the recent decades since the wave of independent filmmaking of the […]
Continue readingNew York Stories – Adore / The Lifeguard / Touchy Feely
September 11, 2013 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks September 11, 2013 The Manhattan Report: Look, I don’t mean to make readers jealous, but living in New York – hell, even visiting for a brief time – offers you some really great cinema-going opportunities. Currently playing over two whole months at the Museum of the Moving Image is a full career […]
Continue readingNew York Stories – The Grandmaster / Ain’t Them Bodies Saints / Short Term 12
August 28, 2013 0 Comments
By Glenn Dunks August 28, 2013 The Manhattan Report: By now we’re sadly all aware that mobile phones are part of the theatre-going experience. Chatting couples, rowdy teens, and questioning seniors are all frustrating, but if I had a dollar for every time a familiar ringtone jingle has buzzed during a quiet sequence or for […]
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