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Andrew is the co-chair of the Australian Film Critics Association, a Golden Globes voter, author of Lonely Spirits and the King. You can find him online trying to enlist people into the cult of Mac and Me.
Happy Sad Man may be the most important film you’ll see this year. Director Genevieve Bailey turns the camera on five men and shows us who they are behind their smiling faces. These are men who look…
Look, every year the Perth Festival is on there is an overwhelming amount of great events on, but if you ask me, the 2020 season is the best yet. Honestly, I have no idea how people are going to mana…
My new Netflix addiction is here. I was already addicted to David Chang’s Ugly Delicious, and I’m not ashamed to say that when I need something to kill the time, I rewatch that. I’ve gone through it c…
Movember kicks off in a few days, and since I’ve been a long time supporter and participant of the cause I thought it would be good to kick off the month with a few pieces about men’s health. With a c…
Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale reigns supreme with a total of fifteen nominations for the 2019 AACTA Awards. The colonial set film is closely followed by Hotel Mumbai and The Kingwhich have thirteen…
One of the biggest champions for the horror scene in Perth is Vanessa Gudgeon. If you've gone to a horror screening at one of the many cinemas around the city, then you'll likely have seen Van…
I’m not entirely sure why I doubted the talent of Timothée Chalamet. I adored him in Call Me By Your Name, but was yet to be equally stunned by subsequent performances, leading me to wonder whether he…
Lorene Scafaria’s Hustlers is a refreshing revitalisation of the crime genre. Driven by two great central performances from Constance Wu and Jennifer Lopez, this is a film that initially feels like it…
Phoebe Waller-Bridge is having, what they call in the entertainment industry, ‘a moment’. Having just won a bucket load of Emmy’s for the second season of Fleabag(trumping expected winner Julia Louise…
While many critics wish to celebrate the artistic side of film, it is, and always has been, a business. For businesses to survive and thrive, they need to innovate. They need to find new ways of getti…
When I watched Suburban Wildlife, about half an hour into it I knew that this was exactly my kind of film. It's a wonderfully written, intimately directed, and superbly acted film that exists than…
At a recent social event, I found myself amongst a group of relative strangers. Somehow the conversation weaved itself to the question of what we would like to do before we die. A fairly innocuous que…