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Jun 302 min read
A Silence (MA) - 101 minutes
A dark and dirty family secret explodes in A Silence. Astrid Schaar (Emmanuelle Devos) has said nothing about the deeply troubling matter...
Alex First
Jun 252 min read
The Teacher Who Promised The Sea – 105 minutes
Turning back the clock to the horrors of the murderous Franco regime with a highly personal 2010 search, The Teacher Who Promised the Sea...
Alex First
Jun 252 min read
Despicable Me 4 (PG) - 95 minutes
Oh my. What a wonderful fourth movie in the franchise (six if you count the Minions’ films). How clever, creative and funny. The...
Alex First
Jun 132 min read
Inside Out 2 (PG) - 94 minutes
In 2015 Inside Out – about a young girl navigating her emotions when she moves cities – won the Oscar for Best Animated Feature. The...
Alex First
Jun 133 min read
The Exorcism (MA) - 95 minutes
A former star actor with a dark past tries to make a comeback in a supernatural horror film involving an exorcism, exposing his demons....
Alex First
Jun 112 min read
The Sitting Duck (M) - 122 minutes
A political thriller concerning a trade union official and whistleblower who wasn’t believed after a violent personal attack, The Sitting...
Alex First
Jun 93 min read
Radical (M) - 126 minutes
“The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.” Albert Einstein said that. And so it is in Matamoros, Mexico in 2012,...
Alex First
Jun 82 min read
Bad Boys: Ride or Die (MA) - 115 minutes
The fourth film in the American buddy cop action-comedy franchise that dates back to 1995 has Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett defending...
Alex First
May 282 min read
The Teachers' Lounge (M) - 98 minutes
A diligent young teacher is caught up in a seemingly never-ending downward spiral of bad practices at a school. Try as she does,...
Alex First
May 212 min read
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga - 2 hours 28 minutes
Alongside a stellar performance from Anja Taylor-Joy, the production values in the strident revenge thriller Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga are...
Alex First
May 12 min read
The Three Musketeers: Part I D'Artagnan (M) – 121 minutes
Intrigue and subterfuge abound in the rich and engaging period action drama The Three Musketeers: Part I D'Artagnan, which is based...
Alex First
Apr 303 min read
Boy Kills World (MA) - 111 minutes
As the expression goes, revenge is a dish best served cold, which suggests that vengeance is more satisfying if one bides their time to...
Alex First
Apr 263 min read
The Fall Guy (M) - 126 minutes
Action aplenty, hairy scenes and hijinks abound in the romantic comedic drama The Fall Guy. Colt Seavers (Ryan Gosling) loves his job and...
Alex First
Apr 253 min read
Golda (PG) - 100 minutes
Israel’s first and only female Prime Minister Golda Meir, who served in that capacity from 1969 to 1974, is painted as tough and...
Alex First
Apr 203 min read
Challengers (M) - 131 minutes
A hard-hitting, focused, rising tennis prodigy catches the eye of two best mates, also on the circuit, who compete for her affections....
Alex First
Apr 192 min read
Freud's Last Session (M) - 109 minutes
The father of psychoanalysis meets a feted author and they discuss whether God exists. That is the centrepiece of Freud’s Last Session....
Alex First
Apr 162 min read
Jeanne du Barry (M) - 117 minutes
A sweeping period drama, Jeanne du Barry covers the rise and fall (predominantly the former) of the primary lover of a former King of...
Alex First
Apr 102 min read
Civil War (MA) - 109 minutes
America is at war with itself, a bloody, take-no-prisoners war. The President (Nick Offerman) has declared he is on the verge of victory,...
Alex First
Apr 72 min read
The First Omen (MA) - 119 minutes
The First Omen is about the depths to which the church will go to maintain power and control. It is 1971 and a young American woman,...
Alex First
Apr 72 min read
Monkey Man (MA) - 121 minutes
Intense fight and chase scenes are par for the course in this East meets West action thriller. The film was inspired by the legend of...
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