The premise: based on Federico Fellini’s semi-autobiographical film of 1963, “8½”, and the Broadway musical, Nine is the account of womanising, though highly regarded, Italian film maker Guido Contini’s (Daniel Day-Lewis) efforts to produce a film for which he hasn’t even written a script.
Needless to say it’s not the best position to be in, especially [...]

I don’t know if was me, and hoping the underdog – even if the “underdog” in question was a hardened killer – would win out in the end, or if it was the way that Public Enemies portrayed the life of the infamous 1930s US bank robber, but I almost left the screening under the [...]

The critics can get it wrong, as La Vie en Rose goes to show.
Following the recent three star review by the Sydney Morning Herald the prospect of seeing this Edith Piaf (portrayed by Marion Cotillard) biopic made me a little apprehensive. I mean three stars… that’s really slumming it at the Herald.
This is how they [...]