The Road Movie Review
When the Lumiere brothers crafted Arrival of a Train in La Ciotat, they would never have envisaged that the format they worked with would be used to tell the story of Russia as captured via dash cam f…
Andrew F Peirce
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.
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Boorloo, Western Australia
Aquaman Review
Andrew F Peirce
4 min read
Look, it’s a fools errand to try explain where the DC movie universe is up to at the moment. Either, you’re up to speed with the frayed narrative threads or you’re like me and you decided it was easie…
Vice Review
Andrew F Peirce
5 min read
In nature documentaries, there are always two narratives working at once. You have the prey – a terrified gazelle fleeing across the Savannah, pulling every trick it knows in a bid to simply stay aliv…
Mortal Engines Review
Andrew F Peirce
4 min read
About ten minutes into Mortal Engines, I became convinced I would never find out what a mortal engine actually is. Is it the giant behemoth city that is London on wheels? Or maybe it’s the centipede l…
Arctic Review
Andrew F Peirce
3 min read
A man is stranded in the great white nothing of the Arctic. We meet him digging into the frozen ground, ploughing a legible SOS into the snow. His watch beeps, and he puts down his shovel and moves on…
Can You Ever Forgive Me? Review
Andrew F Peirce
4 min read
Before sitting down to watch Can You Ever Forgive Me?, do yourself a favour and push everything you know about Melissa McCarthy out of your mind. Yes, she’s been sidelined into outlandish, over the to…
Best Albums of 2018
Andrew F Peirce
9 min read
The year is almost over, and short of some masterpiece dropping out of nowhere, the best albums of the year are out there already. While I'm not as fluent in the world of music at large as I used…
Creed II Review
Andrew F Peirce
3 min read
Creed II is a film of no consequence. Working as a sequel to not just one, but two films (Ryan Coogler’s continuation of the Rocky saga with Creed, and Rocky IV),this entry in the boxing saga feels de…
Best Australian Films of 2018
Andrew F Peirce
18 min read
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australian film
Dancing the Invisible
Ellipsis
Finding the Line
Ghosthunter
Gurrumul
Have You Seen the Listers?
I Used to Be Normal
Island of the Hungry Ghosts
Jill Bilcock
Jirga
Living Universe
Lost Gully Road
Pulse
RocKabul
Strange Colours
Sweet Country
The Merger
The Pretend One
Upgrade
West of Sunshine
Another year, another great round of Australian cinema to dig into. Just like with 2017 and 2016, Australia has managed to produce some of the best cinema that there is to offer. Without going on too…
Kangaroo: A Love-Hate Story Review
Andrew F Peirce
4 min read
The old myth of riding a kangaroo to school is shot dead in the dark of the night in the opening moments of Kangaroo: A Love-Hate Story. Said kangaroo springs into the air as the bullet pierces its ne…
Boy Erased Review
Andrew F Peirce
6 min read
Watching Boy Erased in Australia is a curious affair. It’s written and directed by one of the great modern Aussie minds – Joel Edgerton (working with the production company he started with his brother…
Red Dead Redemption 2 and the Value of an Hour
Andrew F Peirce
16 min read
Red Dead Redemption 2 is out in the world. It’s another mammoth video game from the minds at Rockstar studios (all 3000+of them), putting you right in the middle of 1890’s America. You use a controlle…