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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 person…
One of the great joys about films is the way that they end up surprising you. Take the joyous Japanese food-western film Tampopo for example. On its surface, it’s just a story about how to make the be…
I caught the brilliant comedy Standing Up for Sunny at Cinefest Oz and found myself crying with laughter. It's a brilliant, genuinely hilarious film. I managed to see it with a full audience, and…
I know that there are some reviewers who relish the ability to rip into a film that they didn’t like. They may feel that the monopolisation of their time was a waste, that the filmmaker insulted them…
One of the more exciting and unexpected films to arrive on the radar of Australian cinema entertainment is the third Red Dog film, Koko: A Red Dog Story. Written and directed by Top Knot Detective wun…
Disney returns to the Elsa-Anna pool of Frozen with the creatively titled Frozen II. Directors Chris Buck and Jennifer Lee reunite to tell the continued story of sisters Anna (Kristen Bell) and Elsa (…
Rachel Griffiths directorial debut, Ride Like a Girl, will end up as being the highest grossing (domestic) Australian film of 2019. This is the retelling of the story of Michelle Payne, the first woma…
The master of suspense, Alfred Hitchcock, believed in making the audience suffer as much as possible, when crafting one of his pictures. Often quoted as saying, “There is no terror in the bang, only i…
British journalist Krishnan Guru-Murthy became one of the most ridiculed interviewers of the decade when he pushed director Quentin Tarantino on the relationship between the violence in his films and…
With Leigh Whannel’s The Invisible Man due in 2020, and with Paul Feig’s monster mash film, as well as whatever Dexter Fletcher is doing with, of all characters, Renfield, it appears that Universal st…
Directed by James Mangold, Ford v Ferrari stars Matt Damon and Christian Bale as Carroll Shelby, former race car driver turned designer and engineer, and Ken Miles, professional yet unstable driver, r…
Directed, written by, and co-starring Elizabeth Banks, Charlie’s Angels stars Naomi Scott, Ella Balinska, and Kristen Stewart as the new Angels of the Charles Townsend Agency, tasked with retrieving a…