Hot Mess Coming To Cinemas And Digital Platforms
“One of the best films of 2019...it’s immediately clear that Lucy Coleman is one of the most exciting new voices in Australian cinema.” The Curb “Hot Mess was inspired by my own head spin of a crisis…
Just Mercy Review - Confronting, Puts an Unexpected Emotional Weight on Your Shoulders
I am going to start by adding to some extra context to what I am going to write. Because I found Just Mercy to be not only extremely powerful, but also emotional. I decided that I was going to review…
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood Review - Nice Guys Finish First in this Sorta-Biopic of Mister Rogers
Growing up in Australia in the mid-'90s, you were hard-pressed to find children's entertainment that didn't focus on brawling anime monsters or anthropomorphic bananas. That is where a be…
Jojo Rabbit Review - A Deep, Satirical Conversation About the Effects of Fascism
Written and directed by Taika Waititi, Jojo Rabbitstars Roman Griffin Davis as Jojo, a lonely German boy living during the end of World War II and whose world view is turned upside down when he discov…
True History of the Kelly Gang Review - The War Between Ned Kelly the Man and Ned Kelly the Idea Writ Large
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…
Underwater Review - K-Stew’s Heavy Breathing Cannot Salvage this Empty Vessel
The bottom of the ocean contains more than just a sparkling blue diamond belonging to Kate Winslet. Released under the studio formerly known as 20th Century Fox, Underwater is a sci-fi horror where…
Hour Of Power - With Katie Lees And Grace Rouvray Review
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…
A Simple Space Fringe Review - An Unforgettable Dance Comedy Experience that Can't Be Missed
A Simple Space will leave you as breathless as it’s seven acclaimed performers. Nestled in a corner of Fringe’s Woodside Pleasure Garden, you’ll leave the streets of Northbridge behind you upon enteri…
Dolittle Review - An Inexplicable Garbage Dump
Directed and co-written by Stephen Gaghan, Dolittle stars Robert Downey Jr. as Doctor Dolittle, the famed physician of animals who can also communicate with them. Queen Victoria (Jessie Buckley) is dy…
Bad Boys for Life Review: Bad Boys, Good Fun, Great Laughs
Back in 2018, I wrote about the Predator franchise, which I nostalgically love, in anticipation of the new instalment, The Predator. I was trusting in Shane Black to prevail with his entry in the seri…
Joaquin Phoenix Needs to Make His Oscar Glory a Climate Emergency Moment
If you follow Oscar lore, you'll likely be well and truly familiar with the time Sacheen Littlefeather collected Marlon Brando's Best Actor Oscar on his behalf. Brando had sent Sacheen on his…
The Peanut Butter Falcon Review - A Rare Treat About the Restorative Power of Friendship
Cinema history is thick with examples of the buddy comedy. It has become a genre unto itself. Whether it is two cops, like Lethal Weapon, or enemies turned friends in White Men Can’t Jump, the formula…