Welcome to the GWP Roundtable. Each week the GWP team will be thrown a question and their magnificent film brains will be milked for opinions. With the announcement of the lineup of the Sydney Film Festival (SFF), this week’s question is: What are your must see films for the SFF 2013?
Star Trek Into Darkness is a cosmic fireball of epic proportions. It’s fun to watch but it’s mostly just empty space dust.
Drift is a film that is superb on the water but a little wobbly on dry land.
Spring Breakers is one of the most potent pieces of satire and filmmaking to hit the screen so far this year.
After a superb first half you could probably walk from the cinema satisfied with The Place Beyond the Pines. It’s a shame to forsake that satisfaction by witnessing a well laid plan completely fall apart.
…a finale that’s so spectacular a health warning should be issued for dislocated shoulders from excessive fist-pumping.
It’s a “game over man” moment. It’s as if these people are hoping that their tweet will be some divine intervention that will send you bolting to the cinema door.
High above the scorched landscape of planet Earth that has been destroyed by alien invaders called ‘Scavs’ there sits a flash living space featuring a large glass-bottom pool where the film’s characters frolic. You know…
After a seven year absence the director of Freddy versus Jason, Bride of Chucky and Warriors of Virtue (yes, the Kung-Fu kangaroo film), Ronnie Yu is back … and as mediocre as ever with Saving…
Amnesia, long lost lovers, slimy villains; sounds like a soap opera but it’s all packed into Trance, the new film from filmmaker Danny Boyle. While Boyle’s frenetic direction excels, the film is always one long…
Warm Bodies constructs the Frankenstein like zom-rom-com that isn’t as grotesque as the idea sounds. It’s humorous, sweet and has unexpected depth that superbly elevates it well above the genre bending gimmick it could rest…
It’s simply dumb.
For those about to rock, we salute you.
Schoenaerts and Cotillard hold their own when they are apart but are superb together. The two actors genuinely interact with each other as soul mates.
A bad omen at the start of any film is when main plot details are dropped by a news report and in the opening seconds of A Good Day to Die Hard there’s a news…
The world of Las Vegas magicians is ripe for parody but The Incredible Burt Wonderstone feels like a joke that has been waiting to be told since the 1980s and they’ve mangled the punch line…
I Give it a Year is so obsessed with how clever it thinks it is that it completely sinks the romantic comedy pirate ship it sets forth to be. Nat (Rose Byrne) and Josh (Rafe…
It’s sad that in Oz the Great and Powerful Disney have chosen to pillage from the 1939 film and L. Frank Baulm’s novels to create a prequel that plays out like fan fiction written for Playboy magazine that almost completely negates the material it’s based on.
… the director’s chair on one of the world’s biggest film franchises is open.
Surprisingly the sporting and road trip elements of Save Your Legs serve only as passports to the story of mateship tucked away within the film.
Exactly fifty years ago, The Leopard won the Palm D’or at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival, and this is why. Read more →
So now on to some reasons WHY Singin’ in The Rain (co-directed by greats Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen) is so beloved … Read more →
Kern Saxton, the writer, producer, editor, director and star of 'Sushi Girl' sat down with Graffiti With Punctuation to share his pick for a Five Star Film. Read more →
TK: "I think that 'Fargo' is a superb film." Read more →
Before Sunset is an incredible film on every level, impeccably written, directed and acted, and it is embarrassing to admit that I only watched it for the first time just this month. Contrary to my belief, it proved to be even better than Before Sunrise, a film I would also award five stars. Read more →
Waking with a start, my tired eyes struggled to focus. Wait, where am I? I asked myself, and… am I late for something?
Given all the traveling I do, you’d think I’d be good at it. This month, by the time I get back to LA after Cannes, I will have sat in a plane seat for about
Why didn’t The Cabin In The Woods show at my local cinema but Andre Rieu’s Maastricht Concert is? I mean, Mama and Evil Dead (2013) are barely getting a release over here yet did fairly well in the US.
Film geek ladies and gentleman, I am once again thrilled to announce the addition of another fantastic contributor to the ranks of Graffiti with Punctuation.
One of the best films of this barely embryonic century is a 62-minute stick figure animation. And you’ve probably never seen it.
