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Movie Reviews
CJ Johnson reviews The Meddler
CJ Johnson reviews Green Room
CJ Johnson reviews The First Monday in May
CJ Johnson reviews Florence Foster Jenkins
CJ Johnson reviews Bad Neighbours 2
BAD NEIGHBOURS 2 (aka Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising).
CJ Johnson reviews A Month Of Sundays
CJ Johnson reviews Captain America: Civil War
Rod Quinn reviews Marguerite
Rod Quinn reviews Midnight Special
Rod Quinn reviews Eddie The Eagle
At every Olympic Games, both Summer and Winter, unexpected stars and personalities emerge to become household names. This usually happens when these athletes win gold medals, but in Calgary, Canada, in 1988 the biggest star was a man who finished a very long last in both the 70m and 90m men's ski-jump events.
CJ Johnson reviews The Invitation
Rod Quinn reviews Rams
Rod Quinn reviews Wide Open Sky
Rod Quinn reviews Batman vs Superman
Rod Quinn reviews Labyrinth of Lies
Rod Quinn reviews 10 Cloverfield Lane
Rod Quinn reviews Eye in the Sky
Rod Quinn reviews Grimsby
The British actor and comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has made a career out of characters that were designed to embarrass unwitting dupes and make audiences both laugh and cringe. He began with the character of the white rapper, Ali G, on TV, who then moved to the big screen; but the SBC style really hit the big time with Borat, the guileless reporter from Kazakhstan who crossed the US leaving a trail of havoc in his wake.
Rod Quinn reviews Sherpa
CJ Johnson reviews A Bigger Splash
CJ Johnson reviews The Lady in the Van
Alex Jennings plays Alan Bennett exactly as you'd always imagined him - stuffy, witty, and ludicrously British - in this adaptation of Bennett's novella, and subsequent play, which told the true story of an old lady who lived in her van in Bennett's driveway in Camden for fifteen years. Maggie Smith plays the old lady, and twenty members of the cast of Bennett's play The History Boys appear in the film.
CJ Johnson reviews The Daughter
CJ Johnson reviews The Witch
CJ Johnson reviews Hail, Caesar!
CJ Johnson reviews Son of Saul
Laszlo Nemes' Oscar-winning Son of Saul is as experimental as mainstream narrative cinema gets, and as bold. Set in Auschwitz in 1944 during the planning of a prisoner uprising, the film - and, very specifically here, the camera - follows Saul (Geza Rohrig), a Hungarian Jewish prisoner and Sonderkommando, as he tries to do one significant act of morality amongst the absolute horror of his surrounds.
CJ Johnson reviews How To Be Single
Dakota Johnson has such a fresh, engaging, likeable screen presence that she single-handedly manages to sublimate the impulse to rip your cinema seat out of the floor and hurl it through the screen while watching the horribly named How To Be Single, a Friday-Night-Girls-Night-Out Warner Brothers / New Line / MGM by-product that is impressively more contrived and vacuous than the other post-Bridemaids cash-ins that have rained down on multiplexes since that film made nearly two hundred million dollars in 2011.
CJ Johnson reviews Deadpool
Not so much a superhero movie as a super-anti-hero movie, Deadpool follows a low-rent fixer / mercenary / goon named Wade (Ryan Reynolds) who, after being transformed into an extremely pussy, pimply, putrid version of himself (but with endlessly regenerative healing powers) by a grim British villain named Ajax (the creepily named Ed Skrein), decides his hot mercenary-catering prostitute girlfriend Vanessa (Morena Baccarin) won't like him anymore, so sets out for revenge. Extreme carnage follows.
CJ Johnson reviews 45 Years
CJ Johnson reviews Brooklyn
Romantic, moving, embracing and thoroughly old-fashioned, Brooklyn is a gorgeous film centred by a major performance by Saoirse Ronan, who is making no mistakes in fulfilling the promise she showed when she received her first Oscar nomination, for Best Supporting Actress, for Atonement, in 2007, when she was thirteen years old.
CJ Johnson reviews Steve Jobs
CJ Johnson reviews Anamolisa
These days I stay until the end of the credits, not because I want to see if a Marvel movie throws me a bone, but because often end credits give you intriguing insights into a film's production, from acknowledging tax credits (so that's why so-and-so was shot in the Isle of Man) to revealing how many stunt people were involved (Mad Max: Fury Road many many; something CGI-heavy like a Marvel movie, less than you'd expect).
CJ Johnson reviews The Revenant
CJ Johnson reviews Spotlight
At least I know Boston, because I don't really know the Catholic Church, and the more entwined you are with the Catholic Church, the more (even more) you'll appreciate the dilemmas and obstacles involved in Todd McCarthy's quite brilliant telling of the year the Boston Globe "Spotlight" team - a small, deliberately isolated, independent feature team of journalists who could pretty much take as long as they wanted to research and write a story (WOW!) - published details of The Church's vile shenanigans that opened the way to greater public understanding of centuries of top-down acceptance of paedophilic abuse by its so-called "priests".
CJ Johnson reviews The Peanuts Movie
CJ Johnson reviews The Hateful Eight
Roadshow 70mm Version - Quentin Tarantino's eighth feature film is his sixth best. I know this is cool by him because when I interviewed him (link below) he asked me whether I had a favourite film of his, when I told him I had a list he asked to hear it, and when I read it out he proclaimed it a pretty good list.
CJ Johnson reviews The Big Short
Assured, brash, loud and very, very funny, The Big Short makes thrilling entertainment out of indescribably complicated financial shenanigans using any means necessary - such as offering up Margot Robbie in a bubble-bath, by having a voice-over announce chirpily, "To explain it to you, here's Margot Robbie in a bubble bath.".
CJ Johnson reviews Carol
Carol is the latest successful adaptation of the incredibly cinema-friendly fiction of Patricia Highsmith, although here her source novel, The Price of Salt, is semi-autobiography. The material has found a perfect executor in director Todd Haynes, who combines his exquisite sense of period with a very personal subversive streak, and actors Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, who both seem to be able to simultaneously act as though they are performers of the period (1950s), commentators on such performers, and honestly emotionally involved modern actors.
CJ Johnson reviews Room
CJ Johnson reviews Joy
CJ Johnson's Best and Worst Films of 2015
CJ Johnson reviews STAR WARS - The Force Awakens
CJ Johnson reviews Truth
CJ Johnson reviews Creed
CJ Johnson reviews The Program
CJ Johnson reviews Absolutely Anything
CJ Johnson reviews Secret In Their Eyes
CJ Johnson reviews Man Up
CJ Johnson reviews He Named Me Malala
CJ Johnson reviews Spectre
CJ Johnson reviews Now Add Honey
CJ Johnson reviews Sleeping With Other People
CJ Johnson reviews Mistress America
CJ Johnson reviews Bridge of Spies
CJ Johnson reviews The Lobster
CJ Johnson reviews Burnt
CJ Johnson reviews Legend
CJ Johnson reviews The Walk
The Walk
STARS: 1.5 out of 5.
CJ Johnson reviews Macbeth
STARS: 3 out of 5.
CJ Johnson reviews The Martian
The Martian
STARS: 4.5 out of 5.
CJ Johnson reviews Sicario
CJ Johnson reviews The Visit
The Visit **.
CJ Johnson reviews The Visit
CJ Johnson reviews Tangerine
CJ Johnson reviews The Duke Of Burgundy
***1/2 (out of five).
CJ Johnson reviews Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
*** (out of five).
CJ Johnson reviews Straight Outta Compton
***1/2 (out of five).
CJ Johnson reviews The Gift
***1/2 (out of five).
CJ Johnson reviews She's Funny That Way
***1/2 (out of five).
CJ Johnson reviews Holding The Man
Holding The Man ****.
CJ Johnson reviews Irrational Man
Irrational Man **1/2.
CJ Johnson reviews The Man From UNCLE
***1/2 (out of five).
CJ Johnson reviews Iris
*** (out of five).
CJ Johnson reviews Trainwreck
***1/2 (out of five).
CJ Johnson reviews Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation
***1/2 (out of five).
CJ Johnson reviews I Am Big Bird: The Caroll Spinney Story
**** (out of five).
CJ Johnson reviews Mr. Holmes
***1/2 (out of five).
CJ Johnson reviews Ant-Man
***1/2 (out of five).
CJ Johnson reviews Women He's Undressed
***1/2 (out of five).
CJ Johnson reviews Ruben Guthrie
***1/2 (out of five).
CJ Johnson reviews Magic Mike XXL
Magic Mike XXL ****.
CJ Johnson reviews Love & Mercy
Paul Dano gives an astonishingly rich, award worthy performance as the younger, prime-of-creative-best Brian Wilson in Love and Mercy, a major film which easily takes a seat not only amongst the very best music biopics, but amongst those rare films that are able to dramatize the creative process. Essentially, the film boils down to the recording sessions for Wilson's (with his Beach Boys) seminal Pet Sounds album, and the many scenes set inside that studio feel as authentic and inspiring as you could hope for.
CJ Johnson reviews Minions
The French animated comedy Minions is a prequel to the monster hits Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2. I haven't seen either, no matter, Minions is an absolute hoot on its own.
CJ Johnson reviews Jurassic World
Jurassic World is as meticulously crafted as the strange, clean, efficient theme park that is the real central character of the movie. This script knows how to hit a story beat, how to let a cliff-hanger of a line lead directly to the next scene, with appropriately cued, swelling music.
CJ Johnson reviews Entourage
There is nothing inherently awful about the big screen version of HBO's Entourage television series, other than it has absolutely no reason, or justification, to exist.
CJ Johnson reviews Strangerland
Kim Farrant's debut feature Strangerland has high ambitions. It wants to be associated with Picnic at Hanging Rock, Wake In Fright, Walkabout and The Last Wave - great Australian films that explore the mysterious, creepy energy of Australia's innards - the outback, and / or the regions that lie close to it.
CJ Johnson reviews San Andreas
A Los Angeles Fire Department Helicopter Pilot gets the chance to save his marriage when the biggest earthquake in history rips open the San Andreas fault from LA to San Francisco. If that co-mingling of the personal and the devastatingly tragic makes you a little queasy, San Andreas - which, amid hundreds of thousands of deaths, is only concerned with a few actual lives - may not be for you.
CJ Johnson reviews Tomorrowland
Tomorrowland will be remembered as the film that launched Britt Robertson into movie stardom. As Casey Newton, the feisty, science-minded daughter of a NASA engineer, Robertson does everything she can to single-handedly power this awkward, confused, shambolic young adult fantasy along.
CJ Johnson reviews A ROYAL NIGHT OUT
As frivolous and weightless as a macaroon, A Royal Night Out is actually quite charming and sweet; it survives by being completely self-aware: of its own slightness, of its outlandish concept, and most importantly, of the desires of its intended audience.
CJ Johnson reviews WILD TALES
Oscar Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film Wild Tales lives up to its title. An old-school anthology film, the only connecting theme here is revenge, and the tone is very black comedy.
CJ Johnson reviews Spy
Even Rose Byrne, who has consistently been scoring the most comic goals in supporting roles in American studio comedies over the last few years, is left high and comedically dry by the script and direction of Spy, a generally unfunny, very expensive misfire that is often embarrassing to watch. Byrne manages to achieve a final moment of dignity in her last shot in the film with a subtle piece of physical comedy, but her co-star (and the star of the film) Melissa McCarthy has no such luck; her performance - and ninety-five percent of the movie - is laugh-free.
CJ Johnson reviews MAD MAX: FURY ROAD
It was only about six or seven minutes into Mad Max: Fury Road that I knew that I'd be seeing it again in a matter of days. It was a couple of minutes after that when I realised that this film was going to look freaking spectacular in 3-D (I was watching it traditionally).
CJ Johnson reviews Ex Machina
Alicia Vikander is a young Swedish actress who is going to be a very big star. I made that prediction a couple of weeks ago, reviewing Testament of Youth, in which she played an entirely believable young Englishwoman.
CJ Johnson reviews Clouds Of Sils Maria
Kristen Stewart last showed her chops head to head with Julianne Moore in Still Alice; Moore won an Oscar. I don't think Juliette Binoche is going to win an Oscar for going head-to-head with Stewart for Clouds of Sils Maria, Olivier Assayas new enigmatic, occasionally frustrating but ultimately wonderful new film, and I think the reason is that Binoche has been so wonderful, so genuine - the very embodiment of a skilfully natural actress - that we take her talent for granted these days.
CJ Johnson reviews Kumiko The Treasure Hunter
The Zellner Brothers' idiosyncratic festival darling Kumiko The Treasure Hunter is certainly original and, for the first half at least, deeply compelling. Its complementary use of location, cinematography and sound (original music by The Octopus Project, a very hip Austin ensemble) is spectacular; if sheer visual and aural ravishment is your bag - and enough to get you through a full feature film - then this one's for you, and essential to see on the big screen.
CJ Johnson reviews Unfriended
In 1999 The Blair Witch Project scared the beejaysus out of us with handheld cameras, an unknown cast (who also shot much of the footage) and not much of a budget at all. It didn�t exactly invent the �found footage� format but it was easily the most influential example of the form ever, and, helped by its massive popular success, it revolutionised the modern horror film.
CJ Johnson reviews Going Clear: Scientology and The Prison Of Belief
If you've read Lawrence Wright's book, the film version, by doco maestro Alex Gibney, may not jolt your mind, but it will entertainingly place images of into it of all the folks you've read about, especially David Miscavige and L. Ron Hubbard.
CJ Johnson reviews Testament of Youth
I must admit to never having heard of Vera Brittain's memoir Testament of Youth before this adaptation, yet I discover it's a beloved and important World War One text: beloved because its sweeping story, although completely true, is such a classically perfect tale of love and loss; important because it's a war story told be a Vera, rather than a Tom, Dick or Harry.
CJ Johnson reviews The Avengers: Age of Ultron
I don't read comics (not out of any snobbery, they're just not my thing) and I haven't gone deep-web diving into the Marvel mythology, especially as it relates to the material providing the basis for The Big Movie Event of 2015 (outside of the next Star Wars film, coming in December), Avengers: Age of Ultron. It makes for tricky reviewing, because this instalment of this franchise (the franchise within the franchise, really - the strand where Iron Man, The Hulk, Captain America, Thor, Black Widow and Hawkeye, the dude who shoots arrows, all hang out together) seems to have made the choice to really stimulate the die-hard fans rather than the casual viewer; this viewer was often deeply bored by very long scenes of expositional gobble-de-gook.
CJ Johnson reviews It Follows
Let's acknowledge that you may as well hope for a paisley moon as a truly original horror film; these days, the best horror films borrow tropes that work and give them an original spin. David Robert Mitchell's truly creepy and excellently crafted It Follows takes Romero's slow-moving zombies, combines them with the sexual metaphor of vampiric contagion, then removes the zombie, metaphor and vampiric elements, leaving us with a spooky sexually transmitted disease that follows you, in the guise of creepy, slow moving humans.
CJ Johnson reviews Banksy Does New York
Throughout October of 2013, the street artist Banksy held a "residency" in New York City, offering up a new piece every day of that month. Banksy Does New York, an HBO documentary that was not produced by Banksy (or so it is claimed), wittily, cleverly and thoroughly covers that residency, thus providing those of us who weren't in that city at that time the chance to experience just what a major and wondrous artistic event it was.
CJ Johnson reviews Mommy
I hated the title Mommy until about half an hour into Xavier Dolan's brilliant new film, when it became abundantly clear that the title was perfect. Not since Spanking The Monkey, David Russell's feature debut, has there been such an intimate examination of forty-something mother / teenage son relations.
CJ Johnson reviews Fast and Furious 7
Furious 7 is not quite as enormously entertaining an action-minded car-theft film as the last two instalments of this unlikely franchise. That said, within its own weird universe, it's pretty damn good.
Luke Buckmaster reviews Frackman
Luke Frackman reviews Focus
Luke Buckmaster reviews Chappie
Luke Buckmaster reviews That Sugar Film
CJ Johnson: Letter from LA
Driving around Los Angeles, there are only two films being advertised on the city's billboards. This is astonishing, because this is the movie capital of the world and there is normally a lot of movies being promoted - usually.
Luke Buckmaster reviews Inherent Vice
CJ Johnson reviews The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel
If you liked The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, there's more of the same for you here. Indeed, The Second Best Exotic Marigold is the very definition of an unnecessary sequel, and its title tells you the truth straight up.
CJ Johnson reviews A Most Violent Year
How do you explain a talent like J.C. Chandor, who seems to come to feature filmmaking fully-formed in 2011 with Margin Call, the best financial thriller - and best non-documentary film about the Global Financial Crisis - ever made?
CJ Johnson reviews Jupiter Ascending
You get an awful lot of movie for your sixteen - or whatever - bucks with The Wachowski's Jupiter Ascending, a crazy, fun, infuriating, difficult, fun, bonkers, expensive, fun, ludicrous, romantic, fun flick. It is flawed but is full of fun.
CJ Johnson reviews Selma
Like its lead character, Ava DuVernay's Selma is a methodical, thoughtful, careful, patient, intelligent, and extremely well-spoken film about a major subject - the gaining of the black vote in the United States in the 1960s. Not a biopic of Dr Martin Luther King, it is instead a focussed study of the birth of a piece of legislation - resembling Lincoln in this regard - and, like that film, contains a lot of politics, back-room dealing, decision-making and compromise.
CJ Johnson reviews Citizenfour
Laura Poitras's Citizenfour is vital, urgent, and breathtaking, not necessarily because of any razzle-dazzle in the filmmaking, nor in any spectacular conceit, nor due to any incredibly detailed argument. It is brilliant because it captures an intimate moment of history that will reverberate through the ages; a moment that would not have been captured had not a connection been made.
CJ Johnson reviews Kingsman The Secret Service
There's a lot of spitfire razzle-dazzle but barely any wit, panache or charm in Matthew Vaughn's Kingsman The Secret Service, a huge bloated misfire of a movie that sits like a spew stain on the impeccable jacket of Colin Firth's body of work. While the bounteous fight sequences have verve and style, the rest of the film does not.
CJ Johnson reviews The Theory of Everything
The most surprising thing about The Theory of Everything, which looks from the outside like a movie about Stephen Hawking, is that it's a movie about Jane, his first wife. As gorgeously, perfectly played by Oscar nominated Felicity Jones, Jane meets an eccentric young science student at Cambridge, falls madly in love with him, and then devotes much of her life to him as he rapidly falls victim to motor neurone disease.
CJ Johnson reviews Still Alice
Julianne Moore is nominated for the Oscar for Best Actress for Still Alice, from screenwriting and directing partners Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland. She plays Alice Howland, an extremely intelligent, beautiful and successful linguistics professor, who, upon turning 50, becomes afflicted with early onset Alzheimer's disease.
CJ Johnson reviews Foxcatcher
Bennett Miller's new film, based on true events, is an extremely cold, creepy and brilliant examination of the spookiest edges of the male psyche. It is methodical, deliberate, kind of heartbreaking, but mostly simply chilling.
CJ Johnson reviews Wild
Jean-Marc Vallee follows up The Dallas Buyer's Club with Wild, another strong, urgent, raw piece of filmmaking that offers an Oscar-nominated turn for its lead actor, in this case Reese Witherspoon. Witherspoon, who has never been less than excellent in anything, plays real-life Normal Person (as opposed to Sniper, Billionaire Murderer, Brilliant Mathematician, Civil Rights Leader or Other Brilliant Mathematician) Cheryl Strayed, who, in order to cleanse her suffering from her mother's death and subsequent divorce, undertook hiking the 1,100 mile Pacific Crest Trail and then wrote a book about it.
CJ Johnson reviews American Sniper
Bradley Cooper gives an intricate, psychologically detailed performance as Chris Kyle, the deadliest sniper in US military history, in this cool, elegant biopic from Clint Eastwood, who was eighty-four when he directed it. Kyle was a slippery character.
CJ Johnson reviews Birdman
Birdman, Alejandro Gonz�lez I��rritu�s fantasia on celebrity, persona, art, criticism, family and, more than anything, theatre, is so kinetic and percussive that I left the cinema giddy with excitement. It's like a roller-coaster for cinephiles: working mainly in the confined spaces of a Broadway theatre, Gonz�lez, in an echo of Hitchcock's Rope, makes the film appear to be, with the exception of book-ending scenes, one, enormously long continuous shot.
CJ Johnson reviews Into The Woods
For many, many musical theatre aficionados, Into The Woods is a master work, one of the best pieces by the best maestro, being Stephen Sondheim, the anti-populist, intellectual, "difficult" composer and lyricist. Into The Woods is one of his biggies, featuring excellent music and songs, strong characters, and a clever storyline that subverts a bunch of fairytales.
CJ Johnson Reviews The Imitation Game
**** Spoiler Warning: this article refers to historical details that also form major plot points in "The Imitation Game".
CJ Johnson reviews Life Itself
Steve James' documentary about Roger Ebert, arguably the United States' most popular film critic, and, arguably, also its best, is exemplary. It's less a portrait of a career, more a portrait of a man, and, particularly, a man in decline.
CJ Johnson reviews The Interview
Evan Goldberg and Seth Rogen's The In Interview has a fantastic comic premise. A celebrity tabloid tv interviewer, Dave Skylark (James Franco) is highly admired by North Korean ruler Kim Jong-un (Randall Park).
CJ Johnson reviews St. Vincent
Contrived and melodramatic, Theodore Melfi's debut feature St. Vincent is a desperate, "look at me!" example of screenwriting-by-numbers.
CJ Johnson reviews The One I Love
Charlie McDowell's intriguing little three-hander is a dramatic RomCom with a Twilight Zone hue. And Twilight Zone is the right reference; besides the characters in the film likening their situation to being in an episode of that show, it's also a handy catch-call for something that is neither SciFi, Fantasy nor Horror but has a plot mechanism that falls between the cracks of those genres.
CJ Johnson reviews Annie
Annie, the stage musical, is pretty hoary, but boy is it fun. So is this somewhat inventive, relentlessly sunny update - to a point.
CJ Johnson reviews Nightcrawler
Originality. It would seem to be a basic tenant of great story-telling, but often it takes something really original to shine a light on how much recycled dross gets made.
CJ Johnson reviews Paddington
Paul King's Paddington, only his second feature, may seem worlds away from the surreal humour of the television series he's best known for directing, The Mighty Boosh, but it isn't, really. Full of stylised sets, fantastic one-liners and sight gags, and truly surreal touches, this big, charming, vibrant and heart-warming Paddington pretty much gets everything right, including the bear, and will appeal to all ages.
CJ Johnson reviews Men, Women and Children
In 2012 Henry Alex-Rubin directed the Robert Altman-esque Disconnect, a multi-character, multiple-storyline (MCMS) piece examining the way the internet was simultaneously connecting us and disconnecting us. Like many, many MCMS films that aren't made by Robert Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson or Alejandro Gonzales Innaritu, it had some issues in bringing its characters together in any believable way, but it was pretty good, and much better, more incisive, and far more entertaining than Jason Reitman's Men, Women and Children, which is remarkably similar, not nearly as good, and, at four minutes longer, feels forty minutes longer.
CJ Johnson reviews Particle Fever
Access to images of within the Large Hadron Collider is the main joy of this documentary about the Collider, what it does, and what happened when its' switch was flipped. Along the way a lot of incredibly difficult science is explained relatively well for a layperson, and, as a terrific bonus, we meet a lot of really interesting personalities from the extreme upper echelons of the scientific community.
CJ Johnson reviews The Mystery of Happiness
If you miss the (modern) golden era of Hollywood RomComs - of Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt - then Daniel Burman's The Mystery of Happiness may warm your heart immensely; it's also terrific for those who love film as travel, allowing us a gently comic, shiny and slick view of contemporary, upper-middle class Buenos Aires, which, as presented here art least, is a delightful place to be.
CJ Johnson reviews The Mule
Tony Mahony and Angus Sampson�s The Mule, written by Sampson and co-star Leigh Whannell, is a strange, gently comedic period piece that does its period proud. Set in 1983, it tells the (supposedly true) tale of Ray, a simple bloke who makes the terrible mistake of agreeing to bring some heroin back to Australia from Thailand to appease his footy club mates.
CJ Johnson reviews Maps to the Stars
David Cronenberg's new film starts with incredible promise. Indeed, for the first few minutes I was approaching ecstasy, thinking that I was in for a Hollywood satire to (finally!) rival The Player.
CJ Johnson reviews Two Days, One Night
The Dardenne brothers have a swathe of awards and some pretty amazing films to their credit including The Kid With a Bike and L'Enfant, but Two Days, One Night will almost certainly be their most accessible film, partly because they have a true international movie star - Marion Cotillard - as their lead and partly because their thrilling, suspenseful plot is just so damn good.
CJ Johnson reviews Winter Sleep
It's imperative that you know that Winter Sleep is three hours and sixteen minutes long. That's twenty-seven minutes longer than Interstellar, and Winter's Sleep has no space ships.
CJ Johnson reviews Interstellar
Christopher and Jonathan Nolan's space opera for a post-Spielberg generation is a gargantuan spectacular, an über-film that wants to be too many things at once to get all of them right. The results are uneven, veering from astronomically enjoyable to sloppily sentimental.
CJ Johnson reviews Kill The Messenger
The unpretentious, no-nonsense adult realism of Sidney Lumet permeates the style of journalism thriller Kill The Messenger, and that's a delightful thing. Michael Cuesta's clean, smart and vivid portrait of Gary Webb, a journalist for the San Jose Mercury News who, in the mid-80s, broke a story involving the CIA, crack cocaine and Nicaraguan rebels, and then faced the consequences, is precise storytelling.
CJ Johnson reviews John Wick
Stuntmen David Leitch and Chad Stahelski's revenge bloodbath John Wick seems to have been borne out of this concept: take the best scene from The Matrix, distill it down to its essential elements, and make an entire movie out of that. Thus we have an incredibly stylish, stylised film that is almost entirely composed of Keanu Reeves firing guns into people while looking cool.
CJ Johnson reviews Fury
David Ayer has written some hardcore men-with-men films: U-571 (a submarine in war movie), Training Day, Dark Blue (an excellent and thrilling look at the LAPD during the Los Angeles riots) and End of Watch (which he also directed) among them. He likes to write (and now direct) men in uniform, in camaraderie, in crisis, and his politics always find sympathy with his men, even if they're corrupt, anti-heroic, criminal, or worse.
CJ Johnson reviews Before I Go To Sleep
Nicole Kidman and Colin Firth can do it now: they are masters of the art of screen acting. Both started off a little shakily, she a little too camera-aware (or vain, in blunter terms), he a little stiff.
CJ Johnson reviews Whiplash
Damien Chazelle�s Whiplash is an extremely confident, stylish, brash and superbly crafted melodrama that manages, in its contained story, to examine ambition, elitism, bullying, musicianship, scholarship and many other underlying themes. It is taut, rigorous and menacing.
CJ Johnson reviews Tammy
These days it seems more and more films get released straight to DVD and VOD, and not even because they're so bad as to be unreleasable. Marketing is crazy expensive and if a studio or distributor thinks a film won't cover its costs, straight to the shelf it can go.
CJ Johnson reviews Force Majeure
The most emotionally gripping experience I've had in a cinema thus far this year has been in Force Majeure, a masterpiece by young Swedish director Ruben Ostlund. A well-off young family of four from Sweden are taking a skiing vacation at a high-end French resort.
CJ Johnson reviews Gone Girl
I remember still, very specifically, my decision to cease reading Gone Girl, the huge bestseller of 2012 by Gillian Flynn: it was making me depressed. Its worldview really got to me, and I was feeling grim and prickly because of it.
CJ Johnson reviews Annabelle
Annabelle, a sequel to The Conjuring (which I have not seen), is a haunted doll movie that aspires to class, with means both legitimate and dodgy. As a period piece - it's set in the 1970s - it's tastefully done, never overplaying the costumes, sets, props or (most importantly) hairdos.
CJ Johnson reviews Life of Crime
To do Elmore Leonard right on screen, you've got to achieve the right tone, which is breezy and witty with tasteful dollops of violence. Your criminals have to be likeable, your dialogue has to sparkle unexpectedly, the story lines must be weighted appropriately (which is usually to say equally) and the style has to be consistent and unique.
CJ Johnson reviews Sin City: A Dame To Kill For
I loved Sin City (2005). I loved its amazing world, a grotesque fantasyland of noir; I loved its groundbreaking style, those indelible blacks and whites with bursts of primary colour that seemed to say so much in opposition; I loved its characters - especially Marv (Mickey Rourke), the granite-faced brute, but all of them, really, even the sick Yellow Bastard.
CJ Johnson reviews We Are The Best
Lukas Moodysson has made some terrific films, including Mammoth, Lilya 4-Ever, Show Me Love and his masterpiece (to my mind), Together, which was one of the best films, if not the best film, of 2000. His palette is wide.
CJ Johnson reviews Jodorowsky's Dune
A film for a niche market (and I'm smack-bang part of it), Jodorowsky's Dune tells the story of a great unrealised film project: a huge production of Frank Herbert's Dune by Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky, who created the "Midnight Movie" phenomenon in 1970 with El Topo and is also well remembered for 1973's The Magic Mountain (and who has recently released his first film in 23 years, The Dance of Reality).
CJ Johnson reviews What We Do In The Shadows
The biggest disappointment so far this year is What We Do In The Shadows, which is neither to say it's terrible nor even bad. But my expectations were very high - and way too high, unfortunately (and rather bafflingly).
CJ Johnson reviews Intro the Storm
When I first saw the posters for Into The Storm, I couldn't fathom why anyone would want to see it. Now I know.
CJ Johnson reviews Boyhood
By now you'll know that Boyhood was shot by Richard Linklater over twelve years using the same cast, and the central premise, which is watching a young boy grow into a late teen. The great news is that this concept forms the spine of an excellent movie whose story is served, not dictated, by it.
CJ Johnson reviews Locke
I'm not a great fan of the word "masterclass" when used in reviews, as in "so-and-so gives a masterclass in…" But there is no denying that Steven Knight's screenplay for Locke, his auteurist thriller set entirely in a single car and featuring only one on-screen performance (by Tom Hardy), is, literally, a masterclass in the craft: forget about all those screenplay books if you want to learn how to write one, and just watch this film again and again, because it's got all the elements, and they're laid out, clean and polished, for all to examine, understand, and utilise.
CJ Johnson reviews Boyhood
By now you'll know that Boyhood was shot by Richard Linklater over twelve years using the same cast, and the central premise, which is watching a young boy grow into a late teen. The great news is that this concept forms the spine of an excellent movie whose story is served, not dictated, by it.
CJ Johnson reviews Felony
You always know a really good movie in the first few minutes. It feels in control, on top of things, and you can allow it your trust, and settle back.
CJ Johnson reviews 20,000 Days On Earth
Let's face it, if you're a Nick Cave fan you're going to see 20,000 Days On Earth, the strange, melancholic, and terribly beautiful quasi-documentary from British duo Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth. If you're indifferent about Nick Cave you may still be fascinated by the construction of this fable-like creation, which tells the story of one day (the "20,000th day") in the life of Cave as he runs errands only a rock star can run.
CJ Johnson reviews Guardians of the Galaxy
Among the million pieces of alchemy that made Star Wars great was that it told the story of how a family came together - a misfit family, a family of odds and ends, a naive young farmboy, a cocky smuggler, two droids, a monkish old man, a princess and a big hairy wookie.
CJ Johnson reviews Palo Alto
We don't really need another story about California youth - I certainly don't lie awake worrying about the lives of privileged white teens in privileged white Silicon Valley - but Gia Coppola's Palo Alto - based (no, really) on a volume of short stories by James Franco - is centred by Emma Roberts, a naturally engaging young actress I've never encountered before, and you can't really look away. Without her, this may have been completely disposable; as it is, it announces a major new talent, and that's always exciting.
CJ Johnson reviews The Expendables 3
Stallone must go after Bad Guy Mel Gibson, who isn't allowed to play good guys anymore. Stallone is worried his team of old guys will die, so he gets Kelsey Grammar, some sort of muscle pimp, to get him a team of young guys.
CJ Johnson reviews A Most Wanted Man
Anton Corbijn's third feature is a modern masterpiece in a minor key; a rare example of the director, scriptwriter and creative team producing an original artistic work that it is completely, and successfully, committed to having nothing less than full integrity in relation to the intentions, style, tone and voice of the underlying source material.
CJ Johnson reviews Lucy
Luc Besson does not need to pitch. His production company, EuropaCorp, is a unique powerhouse, a hugely cashed-up independent studio with a creative lock on a particular style of English-language EuroTrash shoot-em-up that makes squillions of dollars in all corners of the globe.
CJ Johnson reviews The Selfish Giant
It's always something special when a director finds, and gets a brilliant performance out of, an exciting and natural child actor, and that specialness can become magic when a director finds two such kids who can effortlessly play off each other. Such is the overwhelming attribute of Clio Barnard's The Selfish Giant.
CJ Johnson reviews Snowpiercer
Joon-ho Bong's Snowpiercer is an exotic and very flawed wildebeest, an often inspired, sometimes lethargic adaption of a French graphic novel, funded mainly by the Korean government and starring a strange panoply of British thespians but with the couldn't-be-less-British American (Captain America himself!) Chris Evans in the lead. It will not be to everyone's taste, but there are those who will go bonkers for it.
CJ Johnson reviews Hercules
If you go see the new version of Hercules, take your laundry. It's the perfect movie to have on in the background while you fold it.
CJ Johnson reviews Venus in Fur
Every good movie offers its own pleasures. Roman Polanski's adaptation of David Ives' play offers us a unique set of them: the moments an actor transitions.
CJ Johnson reviews Once My Mother
On the face of it, it would seem Sophia Turkiewicz has spent her entire career making films about her mother and herself. Her 1978 short, Letters from Poland, and her 1984 feature, AFI-nominated Silver City, were both inspired by her mother's story, as was her discarded short Helen.
CJ Johnson reviews Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
I now have a fresh concern: that my infant daughter, when she's old enough to pick her own video content, will watch the first two episodes of this new Planet of the Apes franchise in the wrong order. Being a smart little girl, she will naturally watch the apes enjoy their Dawn and then their Rise, and,sacré bleu! "Daaaddy!".
CJ Johnson reviews All This Mayhem
The less you know about Tas and Ben Pappas, the skateboarding brothers from Melbourne who are the subject of Eddie Martin's excellent documentary, the more you'll have your eyes opened - first to the intricacies and idiosyncrasies of this unique sport, then specifically to this tale of two brothers who flew too close to the sun.
CJ Johnson reviews Calvary
Writer / director John Michael McDonagh has stated numerous times that the idea for Calvary was borne during a heavy drinking session with star Brendan Gleeson, and unfortunately the sort of slapped-dash nature of a night on the tiles is ever-present in the finished film's maddeningly vague and unfunny "black comic" screenplay, its often facile direction, and even its desperately uneven cinematography. It's a self-satisfied mess.
The concept of Teller's eighty minute documentary Tim's Vermeer is simplicity itself: a man (Tim Jenison) sets out to prove a theory of how the Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer achieved his particular - spectacularly beautiful, phenomenally "lit" - style of painting. But what it turns out to actually be about is Tim Jenison, and what it means to be a member of the new (techno) rich in the United States of the 21st Century.
CJ Johnson reviews The Last Impresario
Sydney-based filmmaker Gracie Otto has fashioned an enormously entertaining documentary about Michael White, the British theatrical producer best known (or unknown, according to the poster's clever tag - "The most famous person you've never heard of") for The Rocky Horror Show, O Calcutta, Sleuth, and the movies Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Rocky Horror Picture Show and My Dinner With Andre.
CJ Johnson reviews Yves Saint Laurent
On the one hand a completely conventional biopic, on the other a rather ravishing love story, the quite incredibly literally-minded Yves Saint Laurent - the first of two films about the designer, who died in 2008, due out this year - earns its strongest stripes where it should: in the realm of style.
CJ Johnson reviews 22 Jump Street
Two ongoing jokes throughout the sequel to '90s cops-in-high-school reboot (and massive hit) 21 Jump Street are that sequels should be more expensive, repetitive, and slightly less good than the original, and that the relationship between Jonah Hill's Schmidt and Channing Tatum's Jenko is, essentially, a love affair masquerading as a buddy partnership. Both (extremely overstretched) gags aren't nearly as clever as they may have sounded on paper, and both give license to directors Phil Lord and Christopher Miller to at least try to have their cake and eat it too: in the first instance, by delivering a sequel that is more expensive, repetitive, and slightly less good than the first one, and in the second, by making, essentially, one big gay joke under the guise of a buddy-movie satire.
CJ Johnson reviews The Two Faces of January
Adapted from a Patricia Highsmith novel by director Hossein Amini, this old-school, old-fashioned, old-feeling melodramatic thriller has the comfy, cozy vibe of a dog-eared novel discovered on the shelves of a vacation rental, although it pales in comparison to the vastly more thrilling Strangers On A Train and The Talented Mr. Ripley, the two best Highsmith adaptations.
CJ Johnson reviews Under the SKin
Unquestionably the boldest feature film to be released into the mainstream cinema thus far this year, Jonathan Glazer's third feature Under The Skin borders on "experimental". Combining relentlessly precise sequences with those shot surreptitiously - ensnaring people on the street into the story - this science fiction / horror hybrid manages the seemingly hopeless task of telling a very clear story in a completely oblique manner.
CJ Johnson reviews The Trip To Italy
There is no definitive recipe for a good - or great - sequel, but many of the good ones are pumped-up, bigger versions of the first that don't lose what we loved about the first in the first place; see The Road Warrior, The Empire Strikes Back and The Godfather, Part II. Michael Winterbottom's follow-up to comic masterpiece The Trip is precisely that.
CJ Johnson reviews Child's Pose
The trouble with reviewing a film as good as Child's Pose is to revel in superlatives and over-hype the poor thing. Know straight off then, that Calin Peter Netzer's third feature is astonishingly written (with Razvan Radulescu), shot and performed.
CJ Johnson reviews Godzilla
Japan has never stopped making Godzilla movies but the US studios only try occasionally. The last attempt, Roland Emmerich's in 1998, was the worst film of that year - by a long shot.
CJ Johnson reviews Bad Neighbours
Full of endless genuinely funny lines, most tossed off and probably improvised, Neighbors, called Bad Neighbours in markets that have grown up with the Aussie soap Neighbours and which enjoy the letter 'u', and not a remake of the John Belushi / Dan Aykroyd Neighbors (but somewhat inspired by it), is a loose, free-wheeling, cameo-studded jaunty romp that achieves its single, noble aim: to make you laugh.
CJ Johnson reviews Fading Gigolo
Not only is the role of Murray in Fading Gigolo Woody Allen's best role - and performance - in decades, the film's initial scenes crackle with the economy, wit and simplicity of Allen's lightest soufflés. Unfortunately, writer and director John Turturro intends a deeper tale than these initial bites of joy suggest, and, stretching the metaphor, the main course has none of the bite of the hors d'oeuvres.
CJ Johnson reviews Transcendence
The idea is a terrific one for these times: once we build a really fine AI (artificial intelligence), isn't it likely that it will exponentially outgrow our intelligence, or at least reasoning abilities, far quicker than we imagined, and when it does, won't it essentially be our god?
CJ Johnson reviews The Invisible Woman
The internet has a lot to answer for, that's for sure, and one of those things is that it's a lot harder these days to carry on a serious affair with a young cutie when you're one of the most famous people in the world. But back in Charles Dickens' day, you could get up to all sorts of hanky-panky and, if you were careful, keep it at least somewhat secret.
CJ Johnson reviews Mr. Peabody and Sherman
The Dreamworks Animation movie Mr. Peabody and Sherman, improbably imported from the Peabody's Improbable History segments of the '60s cartoon The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, starts out very promisingly, with wealthy, über-intelligent dog Peabody and his adopted son Sherman time-travelling at the French Revolution, with much fun had in that hilarious maelstrom of decapitation.
CJ Johnson reviews The Grand Budapest Hotel
Wes Anderson's masterful The Grand Budapest Hotel is not really about that (fictional) hotel, but about its concierge, M. Gustave H., who actually spends most of the movie not actually in The Grand Budapest Hotel, but having adventures in the most playful Europe you've ever seen on-screen.
CJ Johnson reviews Noah
My initial hesitation about Noah was the source material. Amidst a lot of silly stories in the bible, that of Noah is one of the silliest.
CJ Johnson reviews Nymphomaniac
A solitary, mature gent (Stellan Skarsgard) finds a bruised and slightly bleeding woman (Charlotte Gainsbourg) in an alley at night. He takes her to his rather depressing flat, puts her in bed with a nice cuppa tea, and listens sympathetically and attentively, occasionally offering his own insights and queries, as she tells him her life story through the prism of her sex addiction, with particular emphasis on her relationship with Jerome (Shia LaBeouf).
Nick Dent reviews I, Frankenstein
He may be constructed from 12 different pieces from eight different corpses, but the monster (Aaron Eckhart) in I, Frankenstein looks more or less like a dude with a few nasty scars. And when he takes off his shirt in front of beautiful scientist Dr Terra Wade (Yvonne Strahovski), the look on her face says: hmm, Dr F.
Nick Dent reviews Pompeii
The destruction of Pompeii in AD79 retains its hold on the modern-day imagination because the volcanic ash that smothered its inhabitants also preserved their forms, freezing them for eternity at the moment of death. In this movie about Pompeii, it's a different kind of detritus - computer-generated imagery - that threatens to smother the cast.
Nick Dent reviews The Monuments Men
Nick Dent reviews 300: Rise of an Empire
Nick Dent reviews Non-Stop
Nick Dent reviews Tracks
CJ Johnson LAST LOOKS, FINAL CHECKS: POTENTIAL OSCAR UPSETS
Well, tomorrow they're not gonna matter more than a hill o'beans except to the winners, but it's Oscar Day, so some final thoughts are due.
Nick Dent reviews Vampire Academy
Looks like the returns are diminishing on 'Twilight'/'Harry Potter' ripoffs. 'Vampire Academy' did dreadful business when it opened in the US earlier this month, despite being based on a popular series of novels for young adults.
Nick Dent reviews Gloria
This delicious Chilean film will resonate with anyone who has found themselves back on the singles scene much later in life than they'd expected. Gloria (Paulina Garcia) is in her late fifties and divorced.
Nick Dent reviews Wolf Creek 2
Greg McLean's 2005 debut feature Wolf Creek was a slasher movie of style and originality. Its main virtue was surprise: McLean took his time endearing us to his three backpacker heroes before dropping them abruptly into the clutches of madman Mick Taylor (John Jarratt).
Nick Dent reviews Nebraska
At last year's Cannes Film Festival 78-year-old Bruce Dern was named Best Actor for playing Woody Grant, an old duffer from Billings, Montana, who is convinced he has won a million dollars in a mail-order marketing scam. While long-suffering wife Kate (June Squibb) talks about putting Woody in a home, his son David (Will Forte) volunteers to drive the old man across the mid-West to collect his non-existent winnings, taking the opportunity to drop by Woody's hometown.
Nick Dent reviews Dallas Buyers Club
Like bourbon in the barrel Matthew McConaughey is improving with age. Since stepping away from sappy romantic comedies the Texan-born actor has taken roles in saltier fare - 'Bernie', 'Magic Mike', 'Mud' - playing unpredictable, ego-driven men.
Nick Dent reviews Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom
The making of this biopic of Nelson Mandela, based on his autobiography, preceded the former South African president's death last year at age 95. Perhaps if it had been made posthumously it would have taken a few more chances.
Nick Dent reviews Labor
Twelve-year-old Henry (Gattlin Griffith) lives in a small town with his woebegone mother Adele (Kate Winslet), who is divorced from Henry's dad. Adele is agoraphobic; Henry is keenly aware that he's fulfilling the roles of both son and husband.
Lynden Barber reviews The Great Beauty
By some odd coincidence The Great Beauty is the second film opening this week to show the influence of the great Italian director, Federico Fellini. In this case, the creative debt is unmissable.
Lynden Barber reviews The Wolf of Wall Street
Any mounting fears that the veteran American director Martin Scorsese was all washed up are swept aside by The Wolf of Wall Street, a kind of Goodfellas with white collar criminals instead of gangsters, a movie so relentlessly entertaining its three hours go past in a rush.
The film is brilliantly made, relentlessly amusing and superbly well acted across the board (Australian Margot Robbie is a particular revelation as Belfort's second wife), and yet I suspect I will be like many viewers in wondering in its aftermath if I really should have enjoyed it as much as I did.
Lynden Barber reviews Inside Llewyn Davis
Had the Coen brothers made a film about the New York folk music scene of the early 1960s a decade and a half ago, we might have expected a wacky send-up of obnoxiously righteous musicians performing relentlessly corny and outmoded routines. That film however has already been made.
Lynden Barber reviews Her
I's a commonplace that good science fiction is not so much about the future as the present, an extrapolation of current trends that brings our problems and dilemmas into sharper focus. According to this view, George Orwell's 1984 was more about totalitarianism in 1948, the year he wrote the novel, than a serious attempt at prediction.
Lynden Barber reviews Frozen
'Frozen' is the latest Disney animation drawn from a well-known folk legend, in this case Hans Christian Anderson's 'The Snow Queen', where a young woman discovers she has the power to turn the world into ice. The original story's protagonist was an evil villain, so Disney, sensing this would be trouble in a film, has reworked the tale as the story of an exiled princess trapped by her magic powers and her younger sister's attempts to rescue her from her ice palace.
Lynden Barber reviews August: Osage County
'August: Osage County' is classic "Oscar bait" - a production based on a successful stage play featuring an all-star cast thesping for all its worth. The play in this case, was written by Tracy Letts (who is male) and won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for drama.
CJ Johnson reviews The Spectacular Now
James Ponsoldt's The Spectacular Now, based on what must be an extremely well-observed novel by Tim Tharp, is simply the best teen drama, or coming of age film, I've seen in years. Perfectly performed by young actors with an incredibly mature balance of naturalism and spark, the film is funny, immensely charming, moving, and inspiring.
CJ Johnson reviews Enders Game
Ender's Game, based on the Nebula and Hugo Award-winning 1985 science fiction novel - critically acclaimed in some circles and derided as facist in others - by Orson Scott Card, is a very, very strange movie indeed. A big-budget extravaganza that often looks Dr.
CJ Johnson reviews Carrie
In the wake of the spate of revenge attacks upon school bullies that have come to be known, tragically matter-of-factly, as "school shootings", a revamped, updated Carrie had all the potential in the world to be unbelievably current, edgy, creepy, meaningful, tragic and horrifying. Instead, and completely surprisingly given the pedigrees of the director and leading cast, this adaptation of perhaps Stephen King's best book is strictly by the numbers, ticking off the book's scenes one by one, almost absurdly faithfully, without any directorial flair, texture or point of view.
CJ Johnson reviews 20 Feet from Stardom
The early money's on Morgan Neville's 91-minute '20 Feet From Stardom' to win Best Documentary at this year's Oscars (well, those hosted in January 2014 for movies released this year). To do so, it would mean handing the gold statue to the second music documentary in a row - last year's recipient was Searching for Sugar Man.
CJ Johnson reviews The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Put aside the Oscar and the ten million dollars per role for a moment, and pity poor Jennifer Lawrence. Pity her for putting her all into bringing fine performance work to a teen romantic action franchise while being surrounded by male co-stars who, if they're giving their all, simply don't have enough to give.
CJ Johnson reviews Blackfish
Whatever your feelings on the imprisonment and exploitation of sea mammals for profit - ambivalence, acceptance, unease or indignation - the sober, level-headed and extremely well constructed documentary Blackfish is sure to open your eyes a little wider, introduce you to some aspects of the industry that you didn't know, and perhaps, of you're of the ambivalent or accepting camps, change your point of view. I'm in the indignant camp and it still taught me an awful lot about this despicable industry.
CJ Johnson reviews Filth
At a slender 97 minutes, 'Filth', adapted faithfully from Irvine Welsh's terrific 1998 novel, is 95 minutes too long. From the opening monologue by James McAvoy's Bruce Robertson, decrying Scotland as the place that gave the world "deep fried Mars Bars", you know you're in terrible hands all around.
CJ Johnson reviews Enough Said
Nicole Holofcener's films have a distinct voice, and if you respond to it, you may well find 'Enough Said' extremely satisfying. I did not, and instead found it suffered from the same irritations her other films, including 'Friends With Money', 'Please Give' and 'Lovely and Amazing', have arisen in me.
CJ Johnson reviews Fruitvale Station
Ryan Coogler's 'Fruitvale Station' is an intriguing film; it might be said that it's a minor examination of a major subject, or at least an intimate one. It could even be described as somewhat experimental, in that it certainly eschews the kind of dramatic structure screenwriting manuals would preach.
Lynden Barber reviews All is Lost
With the critically acclaimed space survival story 'Gravity' riding high at the box office, now is a perfect time for the release of another extraordinary story of human endurance.
This time the backdrop is the ocean and the solitary human desperately trying to cling onto life is Robert Redford, playing an unnamed lone yachtsman who wakes one morning to find his boat's hull has been punctured by a floating shipping container, damage that threatens to scupper both him and the boat within an alarmingly short period.
Lynden Barber reviews Sister
This Swiss drama is solidly in the realist tradition exemplified by Belgium's Dardenne brothers and British veteran Ken Loach, but it's written and directed by relative newcomer Ursula Meier. It's a typically unvarnished story for its genre, about citizens living at the poorer end of the social scale, in this case a young woman named Louise (Lea Sioux) and her younger brother, Simon (Kasey Motet Klein), living in an ugly block of flats in the shadow of a ski resort.
CJ Johnson reviews The Counselor
Incoherent to the point of being incomprehensible, Ridley Scott's new film 'The Counselor', from a first-time screenplay by novelist Cormac McCarthy, represents a low point for both of these highly acclaimed artists. It's a total mess.
CJ Johnson reviews Captain Phillips
'Captain Phillips', Paul Greengrass' film of the pirate hijacking memoir by Vermont-based Richard Phillips, 'A Captain's Duty: Somali Pirates, Navy SEALS, and Dangerous Days at Sea', is compelling, consummate filmmaking. From the first shot to the last, you feel that tremendous security you get when you are sure that the filmmaker is in total control of his material.
CJ Johnson reviews A Hijacking
Not to be confused with - though totally understandably to be confused with - Paul Greengrass' film Captain Phillips, Tobias Lindholm's A Hijacking takes a cold, almost procedural approach to what happens when a Danish cargo ship is taken hostage by Somali pirates. Playing out as much in the boardrooms of the Danish parent company as it is on the cargo vessel itself, the film is a real eye-opener: when this stuff happens, there's no-one to call for help.
CJ Johnson reviews Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa
Steve Coogan's character "Alan Partridge" may not be the longest-running comic creation of all time, but I bet he's up there for crossing the most genres. He was born on the BBC4 comedic radio program On The Hour, moved into the ensemble of television news spoof The Day Today, then took on his own (fake) chat show, Knowing Me Knowing You in 1995.
CJ Johnson reviews Mystery Road
Ivan Sen's Mystery Road is, in terms of story beats, a completely conventional - indeed, by-the-numbers - police procedural. It opens with the discovery of a body; proceeds to introduce us to a lone cop, just returned to his old beat, who, under-resourced and mistrusted by the community, must not only deal with the baffling mystery and unresponsive and antagonistic locals but also with the indifference, and potential corruption, of his own police department.
CJ Johnson reviews Prisoners
Denis Villeneuve's Prisoners is a nasty piece of work. Indeed, it is about as bleak and unforgiving as mainstream, studio moviemaking gets.
CJ Johnson reviews Diana
A foolhardy concept from its very inception, Diana, which imagines the relationship, in the last three years of her life, between Diana, Princess of Wales, and heart surgeon Hasnat Khan (Naveen Andrews) is chock full of dialogue that no actor can possibly make work. If we are to believe this film, Diana and Hasnat's early courtship, held essentially in secret at Kensington Palace, was composed of her making gags about the bounty of royalty (asked if she has any more wine, she replies "This is a Palace - we don't run out of anything"), while he parried with poetic quotes and ludicrous, high-faultin' babble (on surgery: "You don't perform the operation - the operation performs you.").
CJ Johnson reviews Thanks for Sharing
Sex addiction is not funny, I guess, if Thanks for Sharing, a grossly misjudged misfire of a movie, is anything to go by. Wildly inconsistent in tone, it is impossible to know whether the film aspires to comedy; it's certainly not funny, but I think it's trying to be, when it's not trying to shock us into submission: okay, we get it, it's a disease, we should feel sorry for these people!.
Lynden Barber reviews Gravity
There are few movies you can call breathtaking without fear of contradiction, but the space adventure Gravity is one of them. No film since 2001: a Space Odyssey has given its audience such a sublime sense of the endlessness and loneliness of space.
Lynden Barber reviews Lovelace
Lovelace is a biopic about Linda Lovelace, played here by Amanda Seyfried, the American woman who starring role in the 1972 movie Deep Throat turned her into the world�s first major hardcore porno star and a poster girl for the sexual revolution.
Lynden Barber reviews Stories We Tell
Canadian actor-turned-filmmaker Sarah Polley is doing a fantastic job of being impossible to pin down or predict. Having made a total of three features since she turned to directing with the acclaimed Alzheimer's tale, Away From Her, starring Julie Christie, her latest is even more different to that film and its follow-up on adulterous temptation, Take This Waltz, than they were from each other.
Lynden Barber reviews The Turning
Most Australian films these days fail abysmally at the local box office, almost regardless of their quality. Tim Winton's The Turning - to give its mouthful of an official title - is an attempt at bypassing that fate by presenting itself as a special event, both in terms of its unusual form and the way it's being released into cinemas.
Lynden Barber reviews I'm So Excited
Two films opening this week are from flamboyant European filmmakers with instantly recognisable styles, Spain's Pedro Almodovar and France's Michel Gondry.
The least exciting ironically is named I'm So Excited.
Lynden Barber reviews Mood Indigo
French filmmaker Michel Gondry originally amassed a dedicated fan base with his irresistible music clips for, among others, Bjork and Daft Punk. Their appeal lay in a sense of child-like invention and playful charm, much of it deriving from props made from cardboard, sticky-tape and whatever other physical objects happened to come to hand � a refreshingly old-fashioned aesthetic in an era of digital domination.
CJ Johnson reviews Paranoia
Excruciating dialogue is only the tip of the iceberg of this film's dunderheadedness, but it's the sin that keeps on giving throughout the way too many 108 painful minutes it takes to get through it. When the words aren't just corny, cliched and labored, they're so ludicrously expositional it's embarrassing.
CJ Johnson reviews The Gatekeepers
Dror Moreh's documentary is remarkable not for stylistic innovation but for the very fact it exists. Dror interviews six subjects: Ami Ayalon, Avi Dichter, Yuval Diskin, Carmi Gillon, Yaakov Peri and Avraham Shalom.
CJ Johnson reviews The Rocket
Kim Mordaunt's debut fiction feature, following his absolutely stunning feature documentary Bomb Harvest, takes lessons learned from that film and spins a story into the mix. Bomb Harvest looked at the horrendous scar of unexploded bombs that absolutely blanket Laos, dumped mercilessly and relentlessly by the Americans during the second world war, and which continue to harm civilians nearly half a century later, the most at risk of whom are the poorest and least educated.
CJ Johnson reviews Stoker
Stoker is an acquired taste. It's completely stylized in an over the top way.
CJ Johnson reviews Jobs
Ashton Kutcher is extremely good as Steve Jobs in Joshua Michael Stern's Jobs, which covers the computer pioneer's life from just after college to when he rejoined Apple in 1996 after having been forced from the company in 1985. The movie itself, however, is wildly uneven.
CJ Johnson reviews What Maisie Knew
Steve Coogan probably won't sweep too many awards for his performance in What Maisie Knew, but there is a quiet scene between his character Beale and daughter Maisie (the extremely strangely named Onata Aprile) that is the best piece of screen acting I've seen this year. He never quite loses his Coogan-ness, but there is no more doubting he's a sterling dramatic actor.
CJ Johnson reviews Frances Ha
If, like me, your most thrilling adventures were had in art houses seeing the golden age of American Indies in the eighties and nineties - the early Spike Lees, Michael Moores and Kevin Smiths, the Linklaters and Sayleses and, indeed, the early Baumbachs - then Noah Baumbach's new film Frances Ha will take you back to a very sweet place before its actual storytelling qualities take you in. Shot almost entirely with a static camera, in long takes (and very often aping the early-indie style of an entire scene simply being one still, long take), in black and white that looks like film stock from c.1991, the film is almost certainly an homage to those days, and those films.
CJ Johnson reviews Upstream Color
Shane Carruth is an extraordinary filmmaker. His second feature proudly follows his debut Primer (2004) in its audacity, intellect and astonishing originality.
CJ Johnson reviews Red Obsession
As much an examination of contemporary Chinese character, ambition and taste as it is of the Chateaux and wines of Bordeaux, Red Obsession, from writer-directors David Roach and Warwick Ross, is a globe-trotting, hugely informative and thoroughly entertaining documentary that has been intricately crafted with as much care as the thousands of wines we see onscreen.
CJ Johnson reviews Greetings From Tim Buckley
Daniel Algrant's curio Greetings from Tim Buckley will appeal to fans of Jeff Buckley, fans of Tim Buckley, musicians, admirers of music makers, Brooklynphiles, and the general public in that order. It's a love letter to two men and their music, honest and passionate in its intentions, if slow and meandering in its execution, but with a powerful emotional resolution.
CJ Johnson reviews The World's End
After game-changer Shawn of the Dead and the riotously funny Hot Fuzz, The World's End, the latest from writers Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright, directed by Wright, and starring Pegg and Nick Frost, is a serious misfire, unfunny, unexciting, uninvolving and, perhaps the worst sin of all, incredibly self-indulgent to the detriment of the audience's enjoyment.
CJ Johnson reviews 100 Bloody Acres
There was a time when a low-budget Antipodean "gore comedy" from a debut director (or in this case, pair of directors) would have been schlocky and cheap looking, with poor production values and comedically handspun gore, in spite of whatever inherent wit or ingenuity it may have had. The early films of Peter Jackson and Australian efforts such as Body Melt and Turkey Shoot had their various charms but "slick" they were not.
CJ Johnson reviews The Way, Way Back
It certainly doesn't break the mould, but coming-of-age drama The Way, Way Back, from writer / directors Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, is sweet, gently funny, and full of terrific attention to detail.
CJ Johnson reviews Behind the Candelabra
Michael Douglas is excellent as Liberace and Matt Damon is astoundingly good as his much younger lover Scott in Steven Soderbergh's self-proclaimed last film, although it has now been revealed that he's directing ten episodes of a television show soon.
CJ Johnson reviews What's In A Name?
There's been a particular type of play around for a long time: it involves (usually) a couple of couples, usually affluent or academic in some way, who, due to booze or simply some comment best left unsaid, begin to reveal more and more about how they all actually feel about each other, and, by the end of the night, destroy their relationships, as lovers, friends, whatever, simply by speaking too much of the truth. The earliest one that springs to mind is J.B.
CJ Johnson reviews Only God Forgives
Nicolas Winding Refn's follow-up to Drive is a hyper-stylized and incredibly sombre mood piece that is unashamedly influenced by, to the point of possibly being an homage to, the work of Stanley Kubrick, particularly The Shining, 2001 and Eyes Wide Shut, while also evoking Derek Jarman (particularly Edward II), Pier Paolo Pasolini (particularly Salo) and David Lynch (particularly Fire Walk With Me). Unfortunately it is not close to being as memorable, or interesting, as any of those films.
CJ Johnson reviews This Is The End
This is the End is one of the most fun movies I've seen in ages. It's a silly extravaganza, a huge bunch of nonsense, but, boy, it's entertaining.
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Ricardo Ferretti was appointed on an interim basis in August 2015. The Brazilian played for and has coached several Mexican clubs, leading Toluca to CONCACAF Champions' Cup glory in 2003.
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Cody Eakin, Jamie Benn and Ray Whitney scored goals early in the third period to break open a tie game and help the Dallas Stars cruise to a 5-1 victory over the Vancouver Canucks on Thursday night.
Vernon Fiddler and Erik Cole also found the back of the net and Kari Lehtonen returned from a three-game absence due to a groin injury to stop 37 shots for the Stars, 6-1-0 in their past seven games.
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"We obviously know how tight the standings are," said Benn, who also added an assist for his second straight two-point night after a seven-game stretch with just two assists. "We had our game in hand tonight and we got the two huge points that we needed."
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Derek Roy, traded from Dallas at the deadline, scored for Vancouver, which had a chance to clinch a playoff spot with a win. The Canucks lead the Northwest Division by four points over Minnesota.
"We just made some mistakes in the third that ended up in the back of our net," Vancouver coach Alain Vigneault said. "They got some momentum and in the third, they obviously made plays and we didn't. The plays that we didn't make ended up in the back of our net."
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The All-Star point guard had 21 points and seven assists as the Oklahoma City Thunder, despite shooting 2 of 18 from three-point range, beat the Phoenix Suns 103-96 on Sunday night.
Kevin Durant collected 33 points and 10 rebounds for the Thunder, which won its fifth straight home opener and defeated Phoenix for the 11th straight time. The Suns (2-1) last beat Oklahoma City (2-1) in December 2010.
Westbrook, sidelined after first tearing the lateral meniscus in his right knee during the second game of last season's playoffs, then having a medical setback, returned three to five weeks ahead of the team's previously announced timetable.
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Westbrook was 5 of 16 from the field and 11 of 14 on free throws.
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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - The Johnson County District Attorney is deciding whether to file trespassing and theft charges against five teens that broke into Deanna Rose Farmstead in south Overland Park.
Police said the kidnapped goat was a victim of a teen prank, but the Farmstead and the federal agency USDA said it is no laughing matter.
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She was found unharmed.
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Does anyone know a site for identifying BikeE models. detailed dimensions and specifications. Thanks
www.bikee.org has some specs. Note, though, that several versions of the CT frame were sold (US made and imported) and several different seats were offered with different back heights, bases, and mounting hardware. The longer (XL) frame is preferable, in my opinion, even if you don't specifically need the leg length,-- weight distribution is better front to back. Fewer of the RX and FX models were sold. And even fewer NX.
An AT/XL with sweet seat (taller back) is a good entry level recumbent, if you can find it cheap. But if I were looking for a "first" recumbent used, anything over $350 is pushing it, for a BikeE. YMMV
I've got one with a XL frame. Ride is pretty nice.
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We call him Gordon, The Big Blue Express Locomotive.
He has an XL frame (blue anodized) short back seats & rear suspension.
IMHO, the best recumbent design because in about 2 minutes, the bike can be fit to any size rider.
No other recumbent can even come close to doing that trick!
My 9 year old just took off on it the other day & I can't get it back!
You won't find this one on eBay or CL anytime soon.
I got it today but have yet to ride it. It is an AT model with the bikee computer, an electric horn the seatbag and the 3-7 rear wheel. I'm very excited.
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