Best Australian Films of 2020
2020, as has been heavily documented, was a difficult year for cinema as a whole. Australian cinema in particular was hampered by shuttered cinemas and confusing release schedules, with many iconic fi…
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The Xrossing Review - Impressive Microbudget Indie Amplifies Tension in the Perth Suburbs
Right across Australia, emerging filmmakers are finding their voices through microbudget feature films. I’ve written at length about Lucy Coleman’s masterful weaving of three thousand bucks into the s…
100% Wolf Review – A Howling Great Time of an Aussie Animation Treat
Powered by JustWatch From Photon Creative’s fauna-focused series, Tales from Sanctuary City, to the iconic Emmy award winning series Bluey, there’s been a steady increase in the amount of Austra…
High Ground Review - A Frightfully Tense Meat Pie Western Steeped in Indigenous Australian History
Powered by JustWatch The emerging Indigenous Australian New Wave film movement has seen two monumental films about Indigenous Australian history written and told from non-Indigenous perspectives…
A Sunburnt Christmas Review – A New Aussie Chrissy Classic is Born
Powered by JustWatch Across three films, (Snowtown, Acute Misfortune, Measure for Measure), Daniel Henshall has perfected the piercing stare. It’s a look that tears open your soul and glares int…
Wonder Woman 1984 Review – Wishmaster Series Gets a Dull Superhero Reboot
Powered by JustWatch Wonder Woman 1984 (or, as is titled in the credits WW84) takes place in the height of eighties America. Greed, for lack of a better word, is good, and as a social currency,…
Promising Young Woman Review - Does to the Patriarchy What Get Out Did to Racism: Tears. It. Down.
Powered by JustWatch Content warning: Promising Young Woman is a film that discusses and has depictions of sexual assault. While this usually would be a reason to avoid the content, I do highly…
The Dressmaker Review - One of the Most Iconic, Defining Entries in the Australian Film Pantheon
Powered by JustWatch Deep in the background, as the obligatory Aussie film drone shot opens Jocelyn Moorhouse’s masterful Western The Dressmaker, you can faintly hear the iconic whistle of Ennio…
I’m Not Dead Yet and I’ve Got Something to Say
Content Warning: This post contains discussions of death, suicide, and mental illness. Not dead yet. This has become my go-to response when people ask me ‘how I’m going?’ After a spate of heightened…
Maslin Beach Review - Beach Bound Boredom Sinks a Forgettable Aussie Film
In writer/director Wayne Groom’s recount of the making of Maslin Beach, he mentions that ‘in 1983, when I set down my future goals, my major goal was to produce, write and direct a feature film’. Read…
An Ideal Host Review - Robert Woods Debut Delivers a Promising Homegrown Pot Luck Genre Flick
An Ideal Host screens at Perth's Revelation Film Festival on 11/12/2020 and 12/12/2020. Visit the website for details and tickets. As the filmic world adjusts to a new, morphing landscape, where…
The 2020 AACTA Award Predictions: A Babyteeth Sweep is On the Cards
We’re going to have to get used to the obligatory mention of the current pandemic when it comes to articles about awards discussions and the like, given how much of a disruption this whole Covid thing…