Tag: movie review
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Movie Review : Love and Friendship
Midway through watching this movie, I came to two realisations (and then some more). The first was had the purists been present they would have glared me down to stop me from laughing. For Jane Austen isn’t universally acknowledged as the provider of a wholesome laugh. While I do acknowledge there are many sophisticated, clever […]
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The Man Who Knew Infinity
I should have known about Srinivasa_Ramanujan, the subject of the Man Who Knew Infinity. It is the story of an unknown genius who turned mathematics inside out. But even my mere degree (a statistics major) is not required to appreciate this film. It is Ramanujan’s story that is utterly compelling. An unlearned man, he teaches himself mathematics and then […]
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The Daughter – Movie Review
The Australian movie The Daughter is like a wedding present, something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue. Based on Henrik Ibsen’s play, The Wild Duck, it tells a story both familiar and unfamiliar through a cast of well known actors including Sam Neill, Geoffrey Rush, Miranda Otto and Anna Torv followed by Paul Schneider […]
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Far From Men : Movie Review
Set in the early days of the Algerian War of Independence, Far From Men stars the masterful Viggo Mortensen in a movie that is more than a buddy film, more than a war film and more than a chase film. Based on a short story by Albert Camus, the movie begins with Daru (Mortensen) a school […]
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A Most Wanted Man : Review
Unlike the re telling of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, Le Carres A Most Wanted Man pares the book back to its essentials holding the audience taut right up until the unexpected ending. Phillip Seymour Hoffman in one of his last roles is mesmerising as the washed up Gunter Bachmann who runs a small counter terrorism unit in Hamburg whilst managing internal agency rivalry, the CIA and the German constitution!
Andrew James Whalan 