Kangaroo: A Love-Hate Story Review
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…
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
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…
Island of the Hungry Ghosts - Adelaide Film Festival Review
Andrew F Peirce
5 min read
Poh Lin Lee is a trauma counsellor who lives on Christmas Island with her family. Her job consists of assisting the asylum seekers who have been detained in the detention centre on the remote island.…
Halloween (2018) Review
Andrew F Peirce
6 min read
Horror films are fantastic affairs - they force us to sit with our demons, and reconcile with the feeling of finding comfort and joy from being terrified. John Carpenter's original classic brought…
Journey Review
Andrew F Peirce
6 min read
The visual and aural feast that is thatgamecompany's Journeyhas made its way to the Playstation 4, allowing a new group of players the opportunity to embody mute, cloaked jawas on their trek to th…
Beautiful Boy Review
Andrew F Peirce
4 min read
The film watching period between October and January is one that’s full with films that simply exist to earn their talent an Oscar nomination. These are films that roll along, exist in the public cons…
Unravel Review
Andrew F Peirce
6 min read
Unravel is the equivalent of looking at your very talented photographer friend’s holiday shots. Their photos of mountaintops and luscious forests look absolutely brilliant and are some of the finest p…
Spider-Man and the Map of Markers - Playstation 4 Review
Andrew F Peirce
6 min read
Spider-Man. Peter Parker. Great power. Great responsibility. Yada yada yada. You know the drill. After three different cinematic portrayals of the web swinging New Yorker (with a massive, multi-unive…
Jirga Review
Andrew F Peirce
5 min read
War stories on film are often focused on the soldiers journey, presenting their path in war as an 'us v them' mentality. So rarely do they explore what the 'other side' is going throug…
Backtrack Boys Review
Andrew F Peirce
4 min read
Full disclosure - this film will have you crying within the first five minutes. And odds are, you won't stop crying til the credits roll. Not only is Backtrack Boys an immensely powerful film, it&…
Valiant Hearts Review
Andrew F Peirce
4 min read
World War One is sadly under represented in video games. It’s a war that - to steal from a film critic I follow - is simply not ‘sexy’. It’s a war without the same level of firepower or artillery as W…