The South Korean feature Parasite (Neon) is a bit of a roller-coaster ride. The film begins as a sly comedy, then takes a surprising turn that leads on to a bloody, operatic climax laden with grim social commentary about class conflict.

The late, great Mike Willesee was the voice of Australian current affairs programmes for decades – a familiar sound and sight on iconic shows such as 60 Minutes, A Current Affair, and The Mike Willesee Show, and originally one of the nation’s most devoted sceptics.

Margot Robbie stars in a scene from the movie "Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey". Photo: Warner Bros/CNS. By John Mulderig The DC Comics adaptation Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey (Warner Bros) is presumably intended as a tart treat. Instead, it comes across as a sour exercise in random mayhem. Margot Robbie plays Quinn, the psychiatrist who fell for Batman's nemesis, the Joker, while treating...

Scarlett Johansson, Azhy Robertson and Adam Driver star in a scene from the movie "Marriage Story". Photo: Netflix/CNS. By John Mulderig At first blush, the title of the drama Marriage Story (Netflix) may strike some as ironic. This is, after all, at least on the surface, an engrossing study of the divorce process in contemporary America. Yet thoughtful viewers, especially those guide...

The young pilgrims gathered with a sense of respect and expectation on Day Two to hear Archbishop of Perth, Timothy Costelloe SDB, give his workshop address at the 2019 Australian Catholic Youth Festival, “Listening to God, how do we know what God is saying?”

After lying dormant for more than a decade and a half, the action-comedy franchise that gave us Bad Boys in 1995 and the imaginatively titled sequel Bad Boys II eight years later makes an unwelcome reappearance.

1917 (Universal) is a great movie about the Great War. By turns harrowing and lyrically beautiful – and deeply humane throughout – director and co-writer (with Krysty Wilson-Cairns) Sam Mendes’ gripping historical drama displays both the horrors of trench combat and the endurance of fundamental decency and spiritual striving.

According to the ‘Old Boys’ (the Aquinas College Alumni) Br Clery is an institution, a brother who has become an icon of a complex set of values that represent aspiration, education, and the increasingly complex role that the Church has played in the formation of young Australian men.

In The Two Popes (Netflix), their glossy but highly speculative account of supposedly real events, screenwriter Anthony McCarten and director Fernando Meirelles ill-advisedly try to extol Pope Francis (Jonathan Pryce) by trashing retired Pope Benedict XVI (Anthony Hopkins).

Both the filmmakers and the central voice cast of the much-loved 2013 original are reunited in Frozen II (Disney). They deliver an exuberant animated musical adventure that’s suitable for a wide demographic.