4
The Oath Review
Like standing in the eye of a hurricane, assessing every
piece of debris flashing past your face, it often a fool’s errand to try and
critique a crisis as it’s unfolding. The hurricane in question is one Presi...
4
1.5
Book Week Review
Please take this
opening sentence as an extension of my hand to shake yours.
I have always been
interested in watching more Australian films, with my recent decision to start
movie reviewing allowing me the...
3
Happy Death Day 2U Review
It’s always a risky proposition to
stick more than one genre into a blender and expect something good to come out at the end. Two genres?
Easy done. A pinnacle of the ‘two-genre’ fare is the horror-comedy cate...
4
Cold Pursuit Review
The basic narrative thrust of Cold Pursuit is as Liam Neeson as they come – the son of a snowplow
driver is killed by a drug dealer, so the snowplow driver heads off on a path
of revenge to take out the dealer...
Alliance Film Festival 2019 Line-Up Announced
Gosh.
The line-up for the 30th Alliance French Film Festival has been announced, and well... here's a list of some of the films that will be shown at the event:
Coralie Fargeat's horror masterpiece Reven...
3.5
Green Book Review
Sitting down to watch Green
Book in this current atmosphere of ‘cancel culture’ and supreme ‘woke-ness’
is to sit down with a film that you’ve possibly already made your mind up
about. Well, that is, if you si...
4
Instant Family Review
On paper, Instant
Family has all the ingredients for being a mess. It’s directed by Sean
Anders – he of That’s My Boy, Daddy’s Home and Daddy’s Home 2 fame. It has a comedic lead turn from Mark Wahlberg.
And, ...
5
Vice Review
In nature documentaries, there are always two narratives working at once. You have the prey – a terrified gazelle fleeing across the Savannah, pulling every trick it knows in a bid to simply stay alive. Then, ...
4.5
Can You Ever Forgive Me? Review
Before sitting down to watch Can You Ever Forgive Me?, do yourself a favour and push everything you know about Melissa McCarthy out of your mind. Yes, she’s been sidelined into outlandish, over the top comedic...
3.5
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs – Adelaide Film Festival Review
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. No
Coun...