Beauty and the Beast (2017)

For Disney fans, a live action remake of Beauty and the Beast is either a new sacrament …or sacrilege.

Miss Hokusai (2015)

Miss Hokusai is the anime equivalent of Mr Turner, offering a roundabout biopic of its nation’s most recognised artist.

Gore Verbinski’s deliberate pacing transforms this waterlogged horror into social satire.

A Cinematic Life aligns Australia’s (second) favourite critic’s biography with cinematic history

Kong: Skull Island isn’t interested in saying anything more substantive than, “Whoa, did you see that!?”

There’s a glimmer of a great idea in Death Parade, but it’s ultimately little more than a unique curio.

An action-comedy perfectly suited to chucking on while kicking back on the couch at home.

I understand why critics love this film, but Ciro Guerra’s diptych portrait of the imperilled Amazon never struck a nerve with me.

While Puella Magi Madoka Magica is indebted to magical girl tropes, it offers an immeasurably darker take on that material than you could imagine.

T2: Trainspotting succeeds because it plays like a darker, sadder, tireder, older version of the original film.