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Little Woods Review - One of Tessa Thompson's Finest Performances Yet

Andrew F Peirce May 6, 2019 4 min read
Reviews Drama James Badge Dale Lance Reddick Lily James Little Woods Nia DaCosta Review Tessa Thompson

Films are a reflective medium. They present our world – our lives – back at us through skewed perspectives with a fresh realisation of how our society operates. Ever since the dawn of celluloid, cinem…

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Celia Review - Ann Turner's Singularly Unique Trifecta of Horror

Travis Johnson May 5, 2019 3 min read
Reviews australian cinema australian film Australian horror communism horror Review

Released in 1989, filmmaker Ann Turner’s debut feature Celia is another entry into the “fantastical coming of age” subgenre, which includes the baroque, playful fantasy of Jim Henson’s Labyrinth (1986…

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Long Shot Review - A Political Stoner Comedy That Surprisingly Works

Andrew F Peirce May 1, 2019 4 min read
Reviews charlize theron Drama Jonathan Levine June Diane Raphael Long Shot Review romantic comedy Seth Rogen

Seth Rogen takes co-lead duties in Long Shot, as the only-in-Hollywood named Fred Flarsky, a hyper-indie journalist who routinely tells big business to ‘go fuck themselves’ via whatever thousand plus…

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Miranda Tapsell - Challenge Accepted

Travis Akbar May 1, 2019 8 min read
Articles Australian culture Indigenous Australia Indigenous Cinema Indigenous culture Miranda Tapsell Racism Top End Wedding

Neil Patrick Harris would be proud. The legen… wait-for-it… dary Barney Stinson persona that Harris wore so well in How I Met Your Mother has been taken up by none other than – Larrakia actress Mirand…

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Thunder Road Review - Meet Jim Cummings, the Voice of Modern Independent American Cinema

Andrew F Peirce Apr 26, 2019 3 min read
Reviews Comedy Crystal Arnaud Independent cinema Jim Cummings Nican Robinson Review Thunder Road

Meet Jim Cummings: this generation’s Steven Soderbergh and Kevin Smith and David Gordon Green. A voice that has arrived to shake up and rattle the cage of independent American cinema. One that aims to…

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1985 Review - A Powerfully Quiet Film

Andrew F Peirce Apr 26, 2019 4 min read
Reviews Cory Michael Smith Drama LGBTIQ cinema Michael Chiklis Review Virginia Madsen Yen Tan

Yen Tan’s 1985 may be presented in black and white, giving the illusion that this is a story that takes place long in the past, but this is a narrative that is still startlingly relevant in today’s so…

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Top End Wedding Review - Save the Date for Miranda Tapsell's Hilarious RomCom

Travis Akbar Apr 26, 2019 2 min read
Reviews Gwilym Lee Joshua Tyler Kerry Fox Miranda Tapsell Review Top End Wedding Wayne Blair

Yes, bloody yes, Lauren (Miranda Tapsell) exclaims after overly excited fiancé-to-be Ned (Gwilym Lee) bends down mid-sentence to ask her one simple question. Will you? Well I, too, say yes, bloody yes…

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What Australia Can Learn from the Destruction of Notre Dame

Andrew F Peirce Apr 16, 2019 4 min read
Articles Indigenous Australia Indigenous culture

Worldwide cultural heritage was harmed with the devastating destruction of the 850-year-old Notre Dame cathedral in Paris. Footage of the spire burning and collapsing is horrifying to watch, with so m…

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Breaking Habits Review - Stoner 'Nun' Doc Lacks Punch

Andrew F Peirce Apr 15, 2019 3 min read
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It’s a story that sounds too bizarre to be real: a successful business woman transforms her life after her marriage of seventeen years is suddenly brought to an end. In a bid to rebuild her life, she…

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Hellboy Review - A Dud Reboot That Should Have Stayed Buried

Travis Akbar Apr 15, 2019 3 min read
Reviews comic book film Daniel Dae Kim David Harbour gore Hellboy Milla Jovovich Neil Marshall Sasha Lane

As much as I shouldn’t be, I’m comparing Neil Marshall’s Hellboyto the Guillermo Del Toro efforts of the mid 2000’s. I just can’t help myself. What Del Toro did with those films was create a wonderful…

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Missing Link Review - A Weak Entry in Laika Studios Filmography

Andrew F Peirce Apr 15, 2019 4 min read
Reviews Animation Chris Butler Hugh Jackman kids film Laika studio Missing Link Review Zach Galifianakis Zoe Saldana

Laika Studios fifth film, Missing Link, is clear evidence of the natural evolution of stop motion animation that made the studio a force to be reckoned with ten years ago with their debut film, Corali…

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Us Review - Another Warped Original Film from Jordan Peele

Travis Akbar Apr 12, 2019 2 min read
Reviews Elizabeth Moss horror Jordan Peele Lupita Nyong'o Review Us Winston Duke

Jordan Peele, the genius behind Get Out comes back to scare the bejesus out of us with, well, Us. All he had to do to scare me though was just make a movie about people eating toffee apple. That is gr…

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