Happy Death Day 2U Review
It’s always a risky proposition to stick more than one genre into a blender and expect something good to come out at the end. Two genres? Easy done. A pinnacle of the ‘two-genre’ fare is the horror-co…
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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2019 AFCA Awards and Film Criticism
Andrew F Peirce
8 min read
On February 15th at The Backlot Theatre in Melbourne, the 2019 Australian Film Critic Association awards were handed out. Heading into the ceremony, Sweet Country lead the pack with nine nominations,…
The Combination Redemption Review
Andrew F Peirce
4 min read
At the core of David Field’s The Combination Redemption is a performance by Taylor Wiese that is conjured from the guts of hell itself. All muscles and beard, Wiese’s Bryan is a gut churning echo of t…
The Combination Review
Andrew F Peirce
3 min read
Watching David Field’s The Combination over ten years after its released, it’s difficult to see exactly why this film was as contentious as it was when it first landed. This isn’t to say that a film a…
Cold Pursuit Review
Andrew F Peirce
2 min read
The basic narrative thrust of Cold Pursuit is as Liam Neeson as they come – the son of a snowplow driver is killed by a drug dealer, so the snowplow driver heads off on a path of revenge to take out t…
Burning Review
Andrew F Peirce
3 min read
A barn burns in the middle of the night while a motherless calf simply exists in a nearby shed. A long lost friend magically reappears and asks Lee Jong-su to care after her cat while she visits Afric…
The Hate U Give Review
Andrew F Peirce
3 min read
I first came to The Hate U Give via the simply superb audiobook as read by Bahni Turpin. Her embodiment of the narrator, sixteen year old Starr Carter, was perfect, allowing the book to feel like it w…
Storm Boy Review
Andrew F Peirce
5 min read
This review will contain spoilers. In the year 2019, Colin Thiele’s classic novella, Storm Boy, will be celebrating its 55th anniversary. To honour this momentous occasion, there has been a video gam…
Australian Film Critics Association 2019 Award Nominations
Andrew F Peirce
2 min read
While the Awards season rages on, it’s worthwhile shining a light on what’s going on in Australia. The annual AFCA Film Award nominations have been announced, and there’s a wealth of great films up fo…
The Kid Who Would Be King Review
Andrew F Peirce
3 min read
You may have thought we were done with Arthurian legends given the dud-showing at the box office Guy Ritchie’s cockney, bar brawling King Arthur had when it crash landed in 2017, but Joe Cornish is he…
Andrew's Top 50 Films of 2018
Andrew F Peirce
22 min read
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australian film
Columbus
documentary
Downrange
Drama
Faces Places
First Reformed
Happy End
Hearts Beat Loud
horror
In the Fade
Island of the Hungry Ghosts
Jane
Jane Goodall
Lady Bird
Leave No Trace
Let the Corpses Tan
Love Simon
Michael Haneke
Mission Impossible Fallout
On Body and Soul
Padman
Phantom Thread
Pick of the Litter
Private Life
Revenge
Roma
Shirkers
Shoplifters
Skate Kitchen
Strange Colours
Sweet Country
Terror Nullius
The Cleaners
The Endless
The Insult
The Other Side of Hope
The Rider
The Shape of Water
The Wife
Tully
Upgrade
Vice
Widows
Won't You be My Neighbor?
You Were Never Really Here
Best of lists are always strange beasts. We sift through a year of ‘stuff’ trying to find value and quality, only to put it in some kind of arbitrary order. These lists always play like a competition…
Green Book Review
Andrew F Peirce
9 min read
Sitting down to watch Green Book in this current atmosphere of ‘cancel culture’ and supreme ‘woke-ness’ is to sit down with a film that you’ve possibly already made your mind up about. Well, that is,…