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Midnight Special ***½ (2016, Michael Shannon, Joel Edgerton, Kirsten Dunst, Adam Driver, Jaeden Lieberher, Sam Shepard) – Movie Review

Writer-director Jeff Nichols boldly goes at having a crack at something a bit different in this dark and brooding 2016 sci-fi chase thriller. It’s an oddball story in which a father Roy and his eight-year-old son Alton Meyer go […]

Apr, 07

Black Mass *** (2015, Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dakota Johnson, Kevin Bacon, Peter Sarsgaard, Jesse Plemons, Adam Scott) – Movie Review

Johnny Depp is good, not brilliant, but good, cast against type as real-life diabolical sociopath Whitey Bulger, the most infamous violent criminal in the history of South Boston. Director Scott Cooper’s fascinating but uneven 2015 gangster […]

Nov, 26

Life **** (2015, Dane DeHaan, Robert Pattinson, Ben Kingsley, Alessandra Mastronardi, Joel Edgerton, Peter Lucas, Lauren Gallagher) – Movie Review

Dane DeHaan brings James Dean to Life in a snappy snap. Set in a kind of fairy tale 1955, Life is an excellent movie, with a sweet story, superlative performances and astounding visuals in a […]

Sep, 24

The Gift **** (2015, Jason Bateman, Rebecca Hall, Joel Edgerton) – Movie Review

Jason Bateman and Rebecca Hall stars as youngish married couple Simon and Robyn, whose life goes spiralling into meltdown after a chance encounter with Simon’s old high school acquaintance Gordo (Joel Edgerton). Initially, Simon doesn’t even recognise Gordo at […]

Aug, 06

Exodus: Gods and Kings *** (2014, Christian Bale, Joel Edgerton, Ben Kingsley, John Turturro, Ben Mendelsohn) – Movie Review

The Gospel according to director Ridley Scott is a typically beautifully crafted, visually stunning affair that he tries desperately hard to turn into Gladiator 2, with Moses as an action hero, and inevitably mostly fails. It’s not […]

Dec, 18

Zero Dark Thirty (2012, Jessica Chastain, Joel Edgerton) – Movie Review

The saga of the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden after the September 11 attacks in 2001 makes for an extremely powerful, intelligent, disturbing movie, but somehow it doesn’t quite hit the […]

May, 06

Ned Kelly *** (2003, Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom, Geoffrey Rush, , Naomi Watts, Rachel Griffiths, Joel Edgerton) – Classic Movie Review 1072

Director Gregor Jordan’s 2003 remake of Tony Richardson’s 1970 film Ned Kelly with a bizarrely miscast Mick Jagger this time stars Heath Ledger, Orlando Bloom and Geoffrey Rush and is in the interesting category. It […]

Apr, 09

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