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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.
If there’s one thing that Daniel Espinosa’s Life makes clear, it’s how thin the line between fear and hope is. For the six astronauts on the International Space Station who have the task of assessing…
In November of 2018, Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul voiced his frustration with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, stating that he was “(I’m) totally going to quit it”, and tha…
International Fallscould easily be called The Loneliness of the Long Distance Stand Up Comic, given its honest portrayal of a touring comedian who visits the ice box of America to give his final perfo…
I’ll get the acknowledgement to Don Mancini out of the way, the creator of Child’s Play just a touch over thirty years ago. Mancini is a man who, through dedication and persistence, has continued the…
Woodstock at Fifty: A Venue for the End of the World is director Aidan Prewitt's look back at one of the most famous, influential music festivals in the world - Woodstock. Aidan looks at the peace…
There’s been a rise in stories about millennial Sydney-siders struggling to live in the ever increasingly costly city. Early this year, the black and white Jarmusch-esque dramedy Chocolate Oyster expl…
The latest PwC Australian Entertainment & Media Outlook report paints a dire image for the next five years of cinematic entertainment in Australia. In the report, President and CEO of the HOYTS Gr…
Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Never Look Away borrows the life of artist Gerhard Richter and supplants it into the life of Kurt Barnert. The film opens with a young Kurt (Cai Cohrs) being taken o…
Almost a year ago, Perth filmmakers Kori Reay-Mackey and Dan Thom launched a gofundme campaign for their short film, Residue. Now, a year on, Residue is complete and finalised, and having seen the…
One of the joys of watching films for the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival, is that you're inevitably presented with some magical, hidden gem of cinema. It just so happens that the first of man…
Australia was never kind enough to Yahoo Serious. Our rejection of the absurd meant that the man who gave us cinematic classics such as Young Einstein and Reckless Kelly was never fully given his well…
This review contains spoilers. Look, I don't know much about Pokémon other than people catch these wild creatures, trap them in electric balls of some kind, and then, when they wish to fight anot…