Cinemas Need You Now More Than Ever
What are we to do when the place where films are born ceases to be? A film can be made by people, but it merely gestates in the ether until it is released into the world and exists as it is in the onl…
I’ve Never Seen… Predator: But I Sure Do Have an Opinion on It
People have opinions man, and they sure are shitty. Well, that’s what you can take away from the raging roar from the angry internet who is eagerly grabbing their pitchforks to burn down the steeple…
Adelaide Screenwriter Indianna Bell Receives Major American Film Festival Honour
Austin Film Festival Announces the 25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2020 List It’s with great pride and excitement that I share the news that South Australian screenwriter, Indianna Bell, has been named…
Cornerstone Films, Genesius Pictures and Distribution Executive Lisa Garner Launch Sydney Based 'The Reset Collective'
Cornerstone Films, Genesius Pictures and Distribution Executive Lisa Garner have formed The Reset Collective, a vertically integrated Australian content company encompassing a new model distribution a…
Hostage Review – Kerry Mack and Judy Nunn Impress in Lost Aussie Cautionary Thriller
The re-emergence of Frank Shields 1983 thriller Hostage (aka Savage Attraction) from Umbrella Entertainment comes at a fascinating time in history. Based on Christine Maresch’s book of the same name,…
Animal Crossing: The Pleasure of Conformity
Finding the familiar during global uncertainty... I landed on an uninhabited island, accompanied by a bird and a hamster, guided by a racoon. The grass an unnaturally verdant primary green, peppered…
Hearts and Bones Review - A Rare Thing: A Moment of Healing
As humans, the way we process pain can seem mysterious. Many of us think of pain as a purely physical phenomenon. We get injured, we bruise or bleed, we heal. But when lives are on the line, it is sa…
Butt Boy Review - A Film That Eagerly Disappears Up its Own Ass
And they said original ideas were gone. Tyler Cornack has the status of having created a cult film in his mind with his indie-thriller Butt Boy. Taking triple duties here as co-writer/director/actor,…
The Parents are Fighting Again - Universal, AMC, and the Remains of Cinema
The parents are fighting again. Right, so, there’s a spat between struggling American cinema chain AMC and Universal studios that’s going on like two furious cats ready to rumble. Universal, in need…
Cook's Legacy and the Modern Polly's Folly
Given that acceptance of Aboriginal existence pre-colonisation has been so much later than it should have been, I found it apt that I gave my opinion on the anniversary of Cook's first time visiti…
Rabbit Hole Review - Finding a Future After Spiralling Grief and Loss
From outré queer director and musical theatre genius, John Cameron Mitchell comes a revelatory piece of understated suburban melodrama exploring the complex nature of grief when complicated by intrica…
Parasite Review - 92nd Best Picture Winner
A devilish question to ask viewers of Bong Joon-ho’s history defining Best Picture winner, Parasite, is who they believe the titular parasite to be? Is it the Kim’s? A lower-class family, eking whate…