Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom Review
There’s a point in your life as a film critic that you realise that maybe, just maybe, the shit that used to not bother you, really starts to bother you a heck of a lot. 2018 has gone down as the year…
Revelation Film Festival 2018 - Best of the Fest Picks
Perth’s greatest film festival celebrates its 21st year with another cracker line-up of films, seminars, and much, much more. Yep, it’s Revelation Film Festival time again. It feels like it was just y…
Ready Player One Review - A Bazinga and a Pickle Rick Away From Being Actual Vomit
This review will contain spoilers. The eighties feels like it's the decade that spawned that pesky thing called ‘nostalgia’. The rose tinted glasses of the seventies were discovered by upstart sq…
Ozflix Major Film Category Award Nominees Announced
It feels like just yesterday that the categories for nominations for the inaugural Ozzies (aka Ozflix Independent Film Awards) were announced. Well, now we've gotten the first round of major film…
Pacific Rim Uprising Review
Ok – a quick rundown of the plot. The monstrous kaiju’s at the ending of Pacific Rim have been stopped thanks to Idris Elba’s Stacker Pentecost sacrifice. His son, Jake (John Boyega), sees the hero st…
Tomb Raider Review
In video games, the cut scenes that occur in between the shooty, punchy, player driven moments, are traditionally the moments that character development is delivered. They're the context sensitive…
Rip Tide Review
For a country that’s well known for its sun drenched beaches, with waves that roll on forever, Australia surprisingly doesn’t have that many surfing films. On top of this, the surfing films that do ex…
Independent Oz Films To be Celebrated At New Ozflix Awards - the Ozzies
Ozflix has announced the details for the inaugural Ozflix Independent Film Awards (aka the 'Ozzies') and it's got me excited. One of the things that has bothered me of late about the AACTA…
Okja Review
One of the great joys of being a film lover is the feeling of anticipating a new film from a director you greatly admire. The knowledge that soon, there will be a new story from them is a great feelin…
Their Finest Review - Lone Scherfig's Essential WW2 Drama
With the Christopher Nolan epic Dunkirk, and Gary Oldman’s capital A Acting in Darkest Hour, you’d be forgiven for having completely missed Lone Scherfig’s addition to the Battle of Dunkirk tales that…
A Fantastic Woman Review
The core story that drives A Fantastic Woman is simple. Daniela Vega stars as Marina, a transgender woman who is in a relationship with Francisco Reyes Orlando. Marina and Orlando go out one evening t…
Ellipsis Review
David Wenham makes his feature length directorial debut with the off-the-cuff Ellipsis. This on the fly, speedily captured flick, lives on the improvisational skills of the two lead actors, Emily Barc…