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Andrew is the author of Lonely Spirits and the King. You can find him online trying to enlist people into the cult of Mac and Me.
Each year, a post appears on a news website sounding the alarm that Australian cinema is dead. It’s dying! It’s all going down and you better start selling the furniture now because how else will you…
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I’ll be clear from the get go - it’s hard for me to objectively review Pick of the Litter. After working eight years a vet nurse, and having worked alongside organisations that train guide dogs, I’ve…
As a course correct after five very successful Michael Bay directed Transformers films (making a gross figure of $1,449,356,365at the box office), Travis Knight’s Bumblebee is a strange affair. It’s b…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…