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The Nightingale - Adelaide Film Festival Review

Travis Akbar Nov 1, 2018 3 min read
Reviews Adelaide Film Festival australian cinema australian film Australian horror Damon Herriman Indigenous Cinema Jennifer Kent Michael Sheasby Radek Ladczuk Review Sam Claflin The Nightingale

In 2014 Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook was released. The ultra-creepy Australian film was her first feature and it was the highest of quality. The film won a host of awards as did the director. It’s a h…

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In Like Flynn Review

Travis Akbar Nov 1, 2018 2 min read
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In Like Flynn, the latest offering from iconic Australian director Russel Mulcahy is a bumpy ride. Mulcahy, whose credits include Razorback, Highlander, Resident Evil: Extinction, the underrated Give…

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Red Dead Redemption 2 and the Value of an Hour

Andrew F Peirce Nov 1, 2018 16 min read
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Red Dead Redemption 2 is out in the world. It’s another mammoth video game from the minds at Rockstar studios (all 3000+of them), putting you right in the middle of 1890’s America. You use a controlle…

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Island of the Hungry Ghosts - Adelaide Film Festival Review

Andrew F Peirce Oct 31, 2018 5 min read
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Poh Lin Lee is a trauma counsellor who lives on Christmas Island with her family. Her job consists of assisting the asylum seekers who have been detained in the detention centre on the remote island.…

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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs - Adelaide Film Festival Review

Travis Akbar Oct 29, 2018 3 min read
Reviews Adelaide Film Festival Comedy Drama Ethan Coen James Franco Joel Coen Liam Neeson Netflix Review The Ballad of Buster Scruggs The Coen Brothers Tim Blake Nelson

I don’t like Coen brothers’ films. I did not like Fargo, I hated The Big Lebowski (yea that’s right, I said it, dude), I was not a fan of O Brother, Where art Thou? The Ladykillers was a complete bore…

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Hotel Mumbai - Adelaide Film Festival Review

Travis Akbar Oct 29, 2018 2 min read
Reviews Adelaide Film Festival Australian drama australian film Dev Patel Drama Hotel Mumbai John Collee Mumbai Review Terrorist Attacks

In November of 2008, four terrorists entered the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai, India. They began to massacre everyone they came across. Without going into too much detail, the siege lasted over 60…

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Halloween (2018) Review

Andrew F Peirce Oct 24, 2018 6 min read
Films Reviews David Gordon Green Halloween horror Jamie Lee Curtis John Carpenter Judy Greer Michael Myers Review

Horror films are fantastic affairs - they force us to sit with our demons, and reconcile with the feeling of finding comfort and joy from being terrified. John Carpenter's original classic brought…

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Journey Review

Andrew F Peirce Oct 24, 2018 6 min read
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The visual and aural feast that is thatgamecompany's Journeyhas made its way to the Playstation 4, allowing a new group of players the opportunity to embody mute, cloaked jawas on their trek to th…

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Beautiful Boy Review

Andrew F Peirce Oct 23, 2018 4 min read
Reviews Academy Awards Drama Oscars Review Steve Carrell Timothée Chalamet

The film watching period between October and January is one that’s full with films that simply exist to earn their talent an Oscar nomination. These are films that roll along, exist in the public cons…

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Unravel Review

Andrew F Peirce Oct 22, 2018 6 min read
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Unravel is the equivalent of looking at your very talented photographer friend’s holiday shots. Their photos of mountaintops and luscious forests look absolutely brilliant and are some of the finest p…

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Spider-Man and the Map of Markers - Playstation 4 Review

Andrew F Peirce Oct 19, 2018 6 min read
Reviews Playstation Review Spider-Man video games

Spider-Man. Peter Parker. Great power. Great responsibility. Yada yada yada. You know the drill. After three different cinematic portrayals of the web swinging New Yorker (with a massive, multi-unive…

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Jirga Review

Andrew F Peirce Oct 19, 2018 5 min read
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War stories on film are often focused on the soldiers journey, presenting their path in war as an 'us v them' mentality. So rarely do they explore what the 'other side' is going throug…

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