Set during the Australian Government’s full-scale intervention into the indigenous communities of the Northern Territory, Charlie's Country follows the Charlie of the title as he struggles to reconcile his way of living in the bush with the new regime. With heavier enforcement of longstanding but ignored laws, Charlie’s friends lose their car and hunting weapons; struggling to subsist on the allowance the government gives them.
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Selected review of films in cinemas now.
Very Good Girls (2013)
Lilly and Gerri are best friends on their way to college, but still burdened with their virginity. In their last summer at home, they meet street artist and hipster douche David, who displays a cultivated disinterest in the girls. Gerri is keen to see him again, but Lilly proves his true target and is slowly seduced by his charms. But will the two girl’s friendship last this all-too-predictable love triangle?
Read MoreThe Selfish Giant (2013)
Friends Arbor and Swifty are expelled from their local school, after a run-in with bullies. Arbor wants to make some cash, and help his troubled family, by working for local scrap merchant and criminal named Kitten; Swifty is more interested in training and racing Kitten’s horses. Taking advantage of their naïveté, Kitten uses the boys to collect scrap and make money through illegal means. When Arbor is cheated, both boys resort to dangerous means with tragic consequences.
Read MoreA Most Wanted Man (2014)
Günther Bachmann is an agent and handler who specialises in building intelligence networks using small time terrorists to take down bigger fish. When a way to take down the biggest fish – philanthropist and terror money man Dr. Abdullah – arises, Bachmann targets Chechen asylum seeker and honest Muslim Issa Karpov. Using every dirty trick in the book, Bachmann gets his man – but at what cost?
Read MoreThese Final Hours (2014)
The world is about to end, and James must make a decision to stay with his lover or enjoy his final hours at a friend’s party to end all parties. What he encounters during his journey to said celebrations is not pretty; with the population reverting to a state of barbarism. James saves Rose, a young girl separated from her father, and decides to perform one last, good act in reuniting them.
Read MoreThe Expendables 3 (2014)
Aging mercenary Barney Ross is back working for the CIA, only to discover that his nemesis and former brother in arms Conrad Stonebanks is back too – in the latter’s case, from the dead. Cue Barney’s mission to put the team back together, with some young new specialists, and capture Stonebanks for a trial in the Hague. But things do not go as planned, leading to a showdown in the fictional Central Asian nation of Asmenistan.
Read MoreLife After Beth (2014)
The delightful Life After Beth documents the return of girlfriend Beth from the grave, as a not quite there zombie and the consequences for her family and boyfriend Zach. Initially relieved to have her back, Zach begins to notice that things are not quite right with Beth, as she doesn’t seem to remember the circumstances of her death. Things are then further complicated when other beloved family members begin to return from the grave.
Read MoreChild of God (2014)
This clumsy adaptation of Cormack McCarthy’s novel follows Lester Ballard, as he is evicted from his East Tennessee farms and begins to roam the surrounding countryside and terrorise the local community. Picked up by the Sheriff and released, Lester finds it impossible to live a life unspoiled by trouble or his own base desires; stealing chickens, spying on lovers, and trying to kill the man who bought his farm.
Read MoreSnowpiercer (2013)
Seventeen years after a failed climate change experiment, the world is frozen and remnants of humanity cling to life aboard the train of the title. Circling the world in an endless loop, the train is rigidly divided by class and carriage, with the worst conditions experienced by those in the tail of the train. Enter Curtis, a man ready to start a revolution and accomplish the impossible by making it all the way to the front of the train, capturing the eternal engine.
Read MoreThe Manor (2014)
‘The Manor’ is a strip club and hotel owned by the father of the director Roger Cohen, and an institution around which the family have arranged their lives for three decades. Younger brother Sammy manages the club and dates stripper Gillian, while eldest brother Sammy is less comfortable working there. The family is ruled over by father Roger, while loving mother Brenda slowly wastes away from an eating disorder.
Read MoreThe Unknown Known (2014)
The Errol Morris documentary The Unknown Known consists almost entirely of a wide ranging interview with former US Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld. Best known as the Bush administration SECDEF at the beginning of the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, Rumsfeld is also a veteran Republican politician and came within a whisper of being Ronald Reagan’s Vice President. The film covers his entire career, but focuses on his now infamous memo in which contemplated the “unknown unknown” and the “unknown known.”
Read MoreGuardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Interplanetary scavenger Peter Quill finds himself a wanted man, after recovering an artefact coveted by genocidal villain Ronan. Pulling together a rag tag team of an alien and alienated step-daughter slash assassin, a super-intelligent racoon (or something), a sci-fi Ent, and a hulking widow bent on revenge, Peter embarks on a quest to save the galaxy. The results are fantastic.
Read MoreSex Tape (2014)
After many years of marriage and two kinds, Annie and Jay decide to spice up their bedroom gymnastics (sadly, literally) by making a sex tape. Forgetting to delete said sex tape, they embark on a quest to remove it from a series of devices it has accidentally been uploaded to, eventually having to break into a porn mega-server to prevent their secret from getting out. Along the way, they drag in a set of increasingly creepier characters into their deepening insanity.
Read MoreLucy (2014)
Bystander Lucy is caught in a drug deal gone wrong, and promptly turned into a drug mule for a shady Taiwanese cartel. But all is not right with the new drug; and Lucy begins to experience an exponential increase in her brain power. Utilising these newly found magical powers, Lucy strikes out on a quest for revenge, struggling to come to terms with the new conditions of her existence.
Read MoreMichael Kohlhaas (2013)
The titular protagonist of Michael Kohlhaas is a small but wealthy merchant and horse breeder, who has raised a family in the sleepy surrounds of Cévennes. However, old arrangements are not respected when a new baron succeeds to the coronet, and Kohlhaas’ trade is disrupted by an illegal tax. Leaving two of his horses in the custody of the baron and seeking justice, Kohlhaas finds none. A man of principle, he has no choice but to rise up against his master.
Read MoreVenus in Fur; La Vénus à la fourrure (2013)
Director Thomas is struggling to find a lead for his new play; a stage adaption of Sacher-Masoch’s Venus in Fur. After a long day of auditions, Thomas’ evening is completely disrupted as actress Vanda arrives at the theatre to audition for the part. Initially reluctant, Thomas gets progressively swept up in the performance until his own part in the play becomes too close for comfort.
Read MoreWords and Pictures (2014)
Renowned artist Dina Delsanto begins work at a prestigious prep school after a long period of artistic difficulty, and encounters fiery English teacher/failing writer Jack Marcus. His immediate attraction and her distance creates a school wide debate on the artistic superiority of words or pictures. This is coupled with a routine teen drama as individual, bright students get caught up in the debate.
Read MoreDawn of the Planet of the Apes (2014)
With the human race almost wiped out by a genetically engineered virus, a rapidly evolving group of apes find themselves at peace and home perched atop a dam outside San Francisco. But that peace is not to last, as survivors from the city arrive to get the dam back into operation; and both parties must navigate a delicate balance to avoid a war that might wipe both of them out.
Read MoreThe Two Faces of January (2014)
Wealthy, mysterious couple Colette and Chester MacFarland encounter American student Rydal Keener slumming it as a tour guide in 1962 Athens. Charmed by Rydal’s easy manner and street smarts, they strike up a friendship. But all is not as it seems, and soon the three are shackled together by a sloppy cover-up and pursued by the law.
Read MoreThe Rover (2014)
Set after an unexplained collapse of civilisation, The Rover follows a mysterious loner as he attempts to recover his stolen car from a gang of criminals. Circumstance pairs him up with the gang leader’s brother, who was left for dead, and the two embark on a journey of single-minded vengeance.
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