The Ricci Revival - In Christina Ricci We Trust
In times of seclusion and quarantine, the most comforting thing can be a familiar face. Christina Ricci is a face that has been part of my life since the beginning, one of the earliest films I remembe…
The Platform Review – The Best Heavy Metal Movie Ever Made
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 literall…
Onward Review - A Perfectly Mindless Fantasy for These Dangerous Days
Life sucks. Everything I write might as well start like that from now until… whenever this current state of the world ends. I spent my last week of social opportunity having a good final cinema day fo…
WA Made Film Festival Rundown - A Celebration of the Strong WA Filmmaking Community
As film festivals around the world were announcing postponements and delays due to the unfurling pandemic, something new and exciting was emerging in the sleepy little death toll town of Perth. As rai…
Mojo's Bar is Closed but With Your Help They Can Reopen When the Time is Right
As Covid-19 keeps small business and communities closed, we'll be pushing fundraising campaigns to try help build awareness of places in need. If you are a business, artist, organisation, or comm…
In Fabric Review - A Reminder That Peter Strickland is Capable of Far Superior Work
Peter Strickland is a stylist who wears his influences on his exquisitely curse embroidered sleeve. Whilst his homages to the stylistic influences of Italian Giallo were successful in both Berberian S…
Bloodshot Review - A Competently Made Slice of Blandness
What does Vin Diesel do between Fast & Furious movies? Anything he wants it seems. From hunting witches, being the best secret agent and extreme sports star in the world, an alien bounty hunter or…
The Set Review - Important, Invaluable, but Not Good
Powered by JustWatch 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 rec…
Longest Day in Chang'an Review - An Inventive Imagining of Tang China that Deserves a Wide Audience
In 8th century China, ex-Sleuthhound captain Zhang Xiaojing (Lei Jiayin) is given a 24 hour reprieve from his death-row prison cell to aid the newly formed Peacekeeper Corps foil an imminent terrorist…
“The Gentleman’s War is Over”: Breaker Morant at 40
Of all the directorial careers to emerge from the Australian film industry, Bruce Beresford’s pre-Hollywood run of films from 1972 to 1981 may be the most fascinating. Beresford’s first two films, The…
St Maud Review - This Film Will haunt You Long After its Flames Have Extinguished
St Maud is a disturbing first feature by writer/director Rose Glass. In an effort that is nuanced, and intelligent Glass delivers a horror film that is both unsettlingly original yet also harkens to a…
The Hunt Review - A Suitably Broad and Over the Top Violent Horror Comedy
After being unceremoniously dumped from Universal’s release schedule last year following a series of mass shootings in the US, Craig Zobel’s entertaining horror-comedy The Hunt will finally get in fro…