Author Archive for Sean Rom

Sean Rom is a Sydneysider who works for an animation studio and spends his spare time writing. He is a lover of film, music, books, arty stuff in general really, talking in the third person, your mum jokes and general inappropriateness

Review: Tomorrow When The War Began
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Review: Tomorrow When The War Began

Sean Rom reviews Stuart Beattie’s adaption of John Marsden’s best-selling series, Tomorrow When the War Began.

Review: The Kids Are All Right
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Review: The Kids Are All Right

“the film is a light, soaring joy, brimming with casual brilliance and unavoidable wisdom”

World Press Photo 10
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World Press Photo 10

Seam Rom visits the World Press Photo 10 Exhibition at Sydney’s State Library

Review: Mother and Child
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Review: Mother and Child

Sean Rom reviews Colombian filmmaker, Rodrigo Garcia’s latest film.

Review: Shrek Forever After
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Review: Shrek Forever After

Perfectly competent, reasonably amusing and completely unimaginative.

Film: The White Ribbon/Das weiße Band- Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte
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Film: The White Ribbon/Das weiße Band- Eine deutsche Kindergeschichte

Sean Rom reviews The White Ribbon by world renowned Austrian filmmaker, Michael Haneke.

Film Review: Welcome
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Film Review: Welcome

Sean Rom reviews Philippe Lioret’s Welcome – a film about the struggles of illegal aliens in the North of France with the capacity to change minds and lives.

Film Review: The Rebound
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Film Review: The Rebound

“This sporadically amusing, entertaining and rather fresh-feeling film is considerably a bit more imaginative then what the genre usually offers up.” Sean Rom reviews the romantic comedy, The Rebound.

Film Review: Green Zone
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Film Review: Green Zone

“A movie not sufficiently cerebral and conversely, not dumb enough to be entertaining.” Sean Rom reviews the latest Matt Damon blockbuster, Green Zone.

Film Review: Crazy Heart
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Film Review: Crazy Heart

“Jeff Bridges gives a towering performance that is the finest of any actor this year, male or female.” Sean Rom reviews the Oscar-nominated film, Crazy Heart.

Film Review: Shutter Island
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Film Review: Shutter Island

“If the sum of its parts do not quite equate to the word ‘masterpiece’, Scorsese can be forgiven for giving us a film this rich in ideas and imagery.” Sean Rom on Shutter Island.

Film Review: Daybreakers
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Film Review: Daybreakers

Daybreakers tells the story of “a plague [that] has turned the majority of humans into vampires”. Yes, there’s social commentary and “beautiful art direction”, but as Sean Rom reports, it could have been a better film.