Allied (2016)

Well, isn’t the life and career of Brad Pitt satisfyingly cyclical? Amidst the media frenzy of his divorce from Jennifer Aniston all those years ago, his big screen venture comprised of a fairly middling romantic spy drama with a twist of deception. Cut to 2016 and the media frenzy of his divorce from Angelina Jolie,…

Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them (2016)

Shhh, quiet, can you hear that? That’s the sound of the Harry Potter cinematic army roaring back in to the theatres en mass  for the first time in five years! It’s been a long wait, and though this new adventure in the wizarding world does not in any way involve a certain young boy with…

American Pastoral (2016)

By all accounts, the journey to adapt Philip Roth’s 1997 novel American Pastoral to the big screen has been a long and arduous one. With development starting way back in 2003, the rights for the film had been switched from studio to studio without ever really getting off the ground, that is, until Paramount Pictures…

Arrival (2016)

Welcome to week two of Amy Adams appreciation fortnight. For the last few years, it seems that there has been a trend for the latter half of the year to bring us a science-fiction adventure that breaks out of it’s genre confines and finds appeal with the mass audience. Of late, films like Gravity, Interstellar…

Nocturnal Animals (2016)

Today marks the first in the two part series of Amy Adams appreciation fortnight. The much anticipated Arrival, well, arrives in theatres at the weekend, but before the actress dons her sci-fi hat, audiences first get to see her in Tom Ford’s second directorial effort Nocturnal Animals, seven years after his debut success A Single Man. Would…

The Light Between Oceans (2016)

You know it’s October/November when you find yourself entering the movie theatre to watch a fourth big screen novel adaptation in a row. This time between the summer blockbusters and awards season is a time full of releases that don’t really fit in to any particular category, and with a mixture of genres encompassed in…