Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Review
There’s a point in your life as a film critic that you realise that maybe, just maybe, the shit that used to not bother you, really starts to bother you a heck of a lot. 2018 has gone down as the year…
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
Revelation Film Festival 2018 - Best of the Fest Picks
Andrew F Peirce
7 min read
Perth’s greatest film festival celebrates its 21st year with another cracker line-up of films, seminars, and much, much more. Yep, it’s Revelation Film Festival time again. It feels like it was just y…
Ready Player One Review - A Bazinga and a Pickle Rick Away From Being Actual Vomit
Andrew F Peirce
10 min read
This review will contain spoilers. The eighties feels like it's the decade that spawned that pesky thing called ‘nostalgia’. The rose tinted glasses of the seventies were discovered by upstart sq…
Pacific Rim Uprising Review
Andrew F Peirce
6 min read
Ok – a quick rundown of the plot. The monstrous kaiju’s at the ending of Pacific Rim have been stopped thanks to Idris Elba’s Stacker Pentecost sacrifice. His son, Jake (John Boyega), sees the hero st…
Tomb Raider Review
Andrew F Peirce
7 min read
In video games, the cut scenes that occur in between the shooty, punchy, player driven moments, are traditionally the moments that character development is delivered. They're the context sensitive…
Rip Tide Review
Andrew F Peirce
3 min read
For a country that’s well known for its sun drenched beaches, with waves that roll on forever, Australia surprisingly doesn’t have that many surfing films. On top of this, the surfing films that do ex…
Okja Review
Andrew F Peirce
5 min read
One of the great joys of being a film lover is the feeling of anticipating a new film from a director you greatly admire. The knowledge that soon, there will be a new story from them is a great feelin…
Their Finest Review - Lone Scherfig's Essential WW2 Drama
Andrew F Peirce
6 min read
With the Christopher Nolan epic Dunkirk, and Gary Oldman’s capital A Acting in Darkest Hour, you’d be forgiven for having completely missed Lone Scherfig’s addition to the Battle of Dunkirk tales that…
A Fantastic Woman Review
Andrew F Peirce
5 min read
The core story that drives A Fantastic Woman is simple. Daniela Vega stars as Marina, a transgender woman who is in a relationship with Francisco Reyes Orlando. Marina and Orlando go out one evening t…
Ellipsis Review
Andrew F Peirce
6 min read
David Wenham makes his feature length directorial debut with the off-the-cuff Ellipsis. This on the fly, speedily captured flick, lives on the improvisational skills of the two lead actors, Emily Barc…
Best Film Posters of 2017
Andrew F Peirce
8 min read
Articles
Citizen Kane
Drive
Green Room
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2
James Jean
Jason Edmiston
JC Richard
Jessica Seamans
Jonathan Burton
Kilian Eng
La La Land
Martin Ansin
Matt Ferguson
Mike Saputo
Mondo
mother
Nightmare on Elm Street
Oliver Barrett
Personal Shopper
Pinocchio
Piper
Plan 9 From Outer Space
posters
Rory Kurtz
Sara Deck
The Aviator
The Thing
Tula Lotay
Videodrome
Wonder Woman
2017 continued the trend of great film posters, whether they be commissioned, official or just regular fan art, there was something great out there for everyone. In 2017, I completed my Top 100 Mondo…
Phantom Thread Review
Andrew F Peirce
4 min read
Born from a fever dream, Phantom Thread is the story of a dressmaker falling in love with a waitress. Fairly basic stuff really. It’s also a Paul Thomas Anderson film. And it’s also set in the 1950’s.…