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Travis writes about all things cinema. Find more of his work at http://www.celluloidandwhiskey.com/

The Platform Review – The Best Heavy Metal Movie Ever Made

Travis Johnson
April 2, 2020
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Well, if there was ever a time for movies about people locked in confined spaces slowly going nuts, it’s surely now. Or maybe it isn’t; escapist fantasy might be the order of the day when you literally can’t (...

The Set Review – Important, Invaluable, but Not Good

Travis Johnson
March 18, 2020
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The lesson to be taken from the 1970 Australian film The Set, recently released for home audiences by Bounty Films, is that “important” is not the same as “good”. Widely recognized as Australia’s first queer-t...

True History of the Kelly Gang Review – The War Between Ned Kelly the Man and Ned Kelly the Idea Writ Large

Travis Johnson
January 23, 2020
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Early on in the proceedings of Justin Kurzel’s iconoclastic take on Australia’s favourite outlaw legend, young Ned Kelly (Orlando Schwerdt) watches furtively as his mother, Ellen (Essie Davis doing a feral rif...

Hour Of Power – With Katie Lees And Grace Rouvray Review

Travis Johnson
January 21, 2020
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Katie and Grace’s Hour of Power January 23 -25. 2020 The Flight Path Theatre, Marrickville NSW Reviewing stand up comedy is a tricky bit of business, comedy as a whole being an extremely subjective ar...

Two Heads Creek Review – Classist Ocker Comedy Fails to Impress

Travis Johnson
January 6, 2020
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There’s a style of comedy fairly common in Australian culture that really gets my back up, and it’s classist ocker comedy. You know the type: take a small Australian community – generally rural but occasio...

Nekrotronic Review – Ozploitation Ghostbusters Has Rough Edges but Has a Fierce Desire to Entertain

Travis Johnson
January 6, 2020
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A few years on from their gleefully gross zombie flick Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead, sibling directing team Kiah and Tristan Roache-Turner bring us their second feature, Nekrotronic (also known as Nekromancer in...

The Mandalorian and Mousehouse Monoculture: Reconciling with a Complete Pop Culture Diet

Travis Johnson
November 27, 2019
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So, I’ve been going on a bit of a tear lately, railing against Disney in general, Disney+ in particular, and their resolutely average flagship show, The Mandalorian, which has come to be, in my personal mythol...

Mainstream Nerd Culture and the Dilemma of Success

Travis Johnson
October 28, 2019
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Weird how the nerd nation have suddenly decided that box office and profitability are the most important metrics after all these years of living in the genre ghetto. I mean, we spent decades having our cult...

Letterkenny Review – Parks and Recreation for People Who Day Drink

Travis Johnson
October 22, 2019
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Australia only getting apprised of the brilliant Canadian comedy series Letterkenny a full seven seasons into its run is grounds for dissolving the Commonwealth. Right now, all six episodes of 2016’s Season...

The Furies Review – A Punchy, Rollicking, Blood-Soaked Slasher

Travis Johnson
October 17, 2019
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If you want to trace its lineage all the way back you wind up, cinematically speaking at least, at 1932’s The Most Dangerous Game, but The Furies, the debut feature from writer and director Tony D’Aquino reall...
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