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Month: August 2020

Scot F·August 31, 2020·4 min read

Poppy’s I Disagree and More – An Artist Coming for the Jugular of Capitalism

On January 10 2020 recording artist and YouTube enigma Poppy released her third studio album, I Disagree. It was a...
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Anthony Horan·August 31, 2020·5 min read

I Am Woman Review – Helen Reddy Biopic is a Confident and Assured Debut for Unjoo Moon

Powered by JustWatch Screen biographies of music artists have been coming thick and fast in recent times. Olivia Newton-John, INXS,...
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Andrew F Peirce·August 30, 2020·6 min read

Adam (آدم) Review – Maryam Touzani’s Debut is a Delicate Ode to the Beauty of Motherhood

Powered by JustWatch The curiously titled Adam (آدم) is the first film from Morrocan director Maryam Touzani, nominated for Un...
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Andrew F Peirce·August 29, 2020·4 min read

Slim & I Review – A Joyfully Endearing Documentary that Celebrates a Pair of True Blue Aussie Icons

Kriv Stenders never sleeps. When he’s not telling tales of Red Dog in the Pilbara, he’s bringing Australian soldiers stories...
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Nadine Whitney·August 28, 2020·4 min read

Sequin in a Blue Room Review – A Stimulating Tale of Finding Yourself in the Digital Age

The first feature film from director Samuel Van Grinsven pulls no punches in identifying that it is a homosexual film....
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Nadine Whitney·August 28, 2020·12 min read

The Pact Director Peter Blackburn on Theatre, Creativity in Lockdown, and Support

Accomplished Melbourne stage director Peter Blackburn has worked on some of the best loved plays in contemporary Australian theatre. When...
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Andrew F Peirce·August 24, 2020·13 min read

A Chat with Nathan Phillips – Blood Vessel, Acting in Australia, and Living with Yowies

Powered by JustWatch Nathan Phillips is a man who’s battled it all: from a maniac in the outback in Wolf...
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Nadine Whitney·August 22, 2020·5 min read

La Llorona Review – A Subtle and Persuasive Horror Masterpiece

Jayro Bustamante’s new slow burn horror film La Llorona is less interested in what most would call traditional horror and...
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Andrew F Peirce·August 22, 2020·7 min read

Tenet Review – 2020 Strikes Again, Delivering Nolan’s First Bona Fide Dud

Powered by JustWatch Tenet is exhausting.  Featuring lead performances from John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Kenneth Branagh, and Elizabeth Debicki,...
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BD Kooyman·August 20, 2020·24 min read

Super Boys, Wonderful Toys, and Elfman Noise: The Superhero Movie Class of 1989-1992

Last year, Avengers: Endgame, the twenty second entry in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, earned $2.798 billion worldwide and thus becoming...
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Josh Margolin’s THELMA is a marvellous, witty, smart, and wholeheartedly charming affair. A sublime mixture of comedy and affection for

Thelma is a Hilarious, Charming, and Huge-Hearted Triumph

"What would Tom Cruise do?" Nadine Whitney reviews Josh Margolin's THELMA for The Curb.

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LAST SUMMER is an indictment of bourgeois morality and respectability in keeping with Catherine Breillat’s sensibilities. Starring Léa Druker and

With Last Summer, Catherine Breillat Once Again Provokes Ideas of Hypocrisy and Morality - The Curb

Last Summer screens at the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 11, 13, and 19. Director, author, and provocateur Catherine Breillat returns to the screen after a near ten-year hiatus with Last Summer (L’été dernier), an interpretation of the Danish film, Queen of Hearts (Dronningen) ...

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KNEECAP is fecking fantastic and searingly smart. It certainly should come with a warning of “Do Not Try This at

Kneecap is the Craic – It’s Brave, Bold, Ridiculous, and Relentless - The Curb

“Every word of Irish spoken is a bullet fired for freedom.” Fuck up it is! Rich Peppiatt’s hyper-kinetic Kneecap is A Hard Day’s Night for the North of Ireland and the hip hop generation. A little bit true and a lot untrue version of the formation of the Irish language hip hop West Belfast t...

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