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Letterkenny Review – Parks and Recreation for People Who Day Drink

Travis Johnson
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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
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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...

Escape and Evasion Review – Josh McConville Impresses in Ambitious Aussie War Film

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Following on from dark urban fantasy The School, writer and director Storm Ashwood cants in a very different direction with Escape and Evasion, which sees Josh McConville (1%, The Merger) as Seth, a former spe...

Hearts and Bones Review – A Humane Look Into the Ownership of Stories

Travis Johnson
October 3, 2019
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Filmmaker Ben Lawrence showed an affinity for damaged people with his acclaimed documentary, Ghosthunter, and that empathy for injury and vulnerability carries over to his first fiction feature, Hearts and Bon...

Below Cinefest Oz Review – A Stripped-Back, Pitch-Black Sci-Fi Farce

Travis Johnson
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Every so often you come across a film that fits your sensibilities so closely that you suspect it’s somehow fallen through a crack in reality from a neighbouring universe in which you yourself are a filmmaker....

The Clear Eyed Cynicism of Breaker Morant

Travis Johnson
August 22, 2019
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It’s the laconic cynicism of Breaker Morant that always appealed to me. History and general consensus, both critical and popular, puts Peter Weir’s Gallipoli in pole position as Australia’s Greatest War Movie ...

Fortress Review – A Minor Australian Gothic Classic

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Actor and filmmaker Rachel Ward is currently collecting praise and criticism for her second feature film as director, the boomers-on-a-weekend-binge dramedy Palm Beach, which opened the Sydney Film Festival th...

Tackling Casual Classism: the Last Allowable Prejudice

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So, turns out classism, particularly in the arts, is a major trigger for me. I mean, sure, it's always been a bugbear. I'm constantly amazed at the assumption of relative wealth, privilege and access in th...

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Based on the 2015 novel by Nicholas Searle, The Good Liar reunites Gods and Monsters and Mr. Holmes director Bill Condon with acting legend Sir Ian McKellen for the fourth time – and the equally legendary Hele...

Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan Review – A Boots-On-The-Ground Aussie War Story

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Powered by JustWatch It’s been 40 years since Australian cinema explored the combat soldier’s experience of the Vietnam War. While David Caesar’s Dirty Deeds (2002) featured a brief...
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