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To an extent every biopic is a work of imaginative fiction. What the director and writer choose to include and exclude, the primary focus on the subject, the details that are exaggerated or in part fa…
The set-up is familiar; a group of teens start messing around with an occult object and bad things begin to happen. Despite this being the premise of dozens of possession horror films, Danny and Micha…
How do you satirise a period of history where “truth” or the appearance of it was so close to satire that they were often indistinguishable? Soda Jerk decided the best way was to take the immediate pr…
Carla Simón’s almost neo-realist second feature Alcarràs is an elegy to a dying way of life in Catalonia. It is far from rose tinted although shot with impeccable beauty. A family who relied on the tr…
Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to wade through the distinctly overlong and uneven Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, or MI7. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) returns after the eve…
Adele Lim’s hilarious Joy Ride was originally titled The Joy Fuck Club, which is pithy and biting in its own way, but implies a one-dimensionality to the film which it steadfastly avoids. Yes, it is c…
Sophie Linnenbaum’s feature film The Ordinaries is set in an imagined dystopia where the world is a film set and three strata of society emerge: Main Characters, Supporting Characters, and Outtakes. A…
Fantasia International Film Festival is entering its twenty-seventh year and is one of the most important genre festivals in the world. This year sees a variety of excellent new films and a retrospect…
I Like Movies screens at Perth's Revelation Film Festival on July 12 and 14. For Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) the protagonist of Chandler Levack’s debut feature I Like Movies the title is s…
Riceboy Sleeps screens at Perth's Revelation Film Festival on July 13 and 14. Canadian director Anthony Shim’s immigrant drama Riceboy Sleeps is a film that juxtaposes emotional distance and inti…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Indiana Jones movies are best when they feature the titular hero punching Nazis. James Mangold, taking the reins from Steven Spielberg, is well aware of thi…
Master Gardener is Paul Schrader’s latest entry into his loose trilogy of solitary men that started with First Reformed (2017) and The Card Counter (2021), it is also his most romantic, or whatever ro…