Tagged Three Stars 2015

Broadway and musicals are a perfect couple. However, problems arise when you decide to add another to the relationship: the medium of film. On stage, energy is easy to sustain - and that is likely where The...

Somewhat overlong and not as incisive as it could be, Cobain: Montage of Heck is nonetheless a satisfying portrait of a troubled genius. Cobain's turbulent story is told mostly through a collage of...

Tab Hunter Confidential is a fascinating and comprehensive biography that successfully conveys Hunter’s golden-boy status and subsequent career. Through its logical structure, rare film clips and...

It would be difficult to find a more earnest film than Blackbird, which is forthright, incisive and often heart-meltingly sweet. It is precisely this earnestness that holds our interest during the...

Tiger Orange combines able execution with an enticing story to make a gentle and romantic film. Chet’s shy reticence contrasts vividly with Todd’s promiscuity, creating a shrewd central fraternal...

What starts as a road trip soon turns into something much less laid-back and much more mystifying in William Eubank’s enigmatic sci-fi. Rising star Brenton Thwaites offers a solid performance, as do...

The ambition of Sri Lanka’s first LGBT film is staggering; it is no wonder that Frangipani is occasionally overpowered. The film’s complexity is regrettably controverted by an underdeveloped,...

The teen dystopian book adaptation trend continues with a vengeance in Insurgent. This tricky middle tome of the Divergent series, where (seemingly) lots happens with an impressive crash, bang and wallop on...

Out To Win will interest its audience, and perhaps even provoke awareness. It's a fascinating documentary which scrutinises the intersecting, conflicting, and mutually revealing powers of prejudice and sport....

Princess Kaguya is beautiful, and that presents a problem: our protagonist has her life planned, wrapped and presented to everyone else, her restless energy and passion gradually receding into the darker...

Home is an enjoyable family movie. All the ingredients for DreamWorks magic are present: imagination, expert animation and plenty of comic charm. While perhaps not as precise as the creators may have hoped...

Suite Française shows the civilian casualties of war, taking attention far from the frontline to an untroubled countryside. Williams and Schoenaerts display a compelling chemistry in their doubly...

There's nothing about Run All Night that you haven't seen before in a dozen other Liam Neeson movies, though this one's assured execution makes it an entertaining watch at least. While Neeson could (and...

Still Alice is increasingly immersive, with dynamic camerawork and layered soundscapes replicating Alice’s perceptions for the audience, and conveying her alarmingly rapid decline. In comparison,...

Based on Kody Keplinger's teen novel, The DUFF aims to be this generation's Mean Girls. Labelled a 'Designated Ugly Fat Friend’, Bianca Piper (Mae Whitman) enlists popular jock Wesley 'Wes' Rush (Robbie...