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For mainstream Hollywood, 2016 was the worst year in memory
Blockbusters disappointed but plenty of great work came from directors willing to go out on a limb – and there's one local production all Australians should see.
Jake Wilson was born in London and grew up in Melbourne. He got his start reviewing movies for various websites and has been writing for the Age since 2006.
Blockbusters disappointed but plenty of great work came from directors willing to go out on a limb – and there's one local production all Australians should see.
Robert Zemeckis' latest film is an intricately woven throwback to Old Hollywood.
Iggy - real name James Osterberg - has a surprisingly sharp memory for a punk legend but isn't the greatest of raconteurs.
Celebrities were not the only ones sucked in when Laura Albert wrote as an abused young man.
The fifth instalment in the series is short on action, unconvincing and bogged down by boring discussions of vampire politics.
It's not the kind of kids' film that adults can bear to sit through, even if Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake and John Cleese have lent their star power.
It's no masterpiece but Jason Bateman's quirky film is far better than other recent films in the genre.
Modern literary novels are risky for filmmakers to adapt, especially those explicitly concerned with the act of reading.
Mel Gibson the filmmaker is a divided soul – committed to Christian principles of peace and forgiveness, yet fascinated by violence of the most horrific kind. The pattern continues in Hacksaw Ridge.
Ben Affleck's high-functioning autistic savant Christian Wolff has unique maths skills that are in demand in the world of organised crime.
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