Best Australian Films of 2017
2017, just like 2016 before it, was another stellar year for Australian cinema with a bunch of truly superb films. The quality was stretched across theatrical and streaming, with some of my top 20 fil…
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Get Ready Player One! The Future Is Not As Bleak As We Thought
The long awaited sequel to Ridley Scott’s classic sci-fi Blade Runner made its way to screens in 2017. Director Denis Villeneuve ushered the sequel – creatively titled Blade Runner 2049 – onto our scr…
AACTA and the Australian Cinema Conundrum
So, the 7th annual AACTA Awards ceremony came and went. The ceremony was spread out over two days, with a delayed screening running on Channel 7, followed by a repeat screening to be run on Foxtel at…
Accountability at the Alamo Drafthouse: Devin Faraci, Tim League and the Issue with Problematic Icons
In the lead up to The Art of Mondo book being released, I had written up a list covering my top 100 Mondo screen prints. Ranging all the way back to 2006 through to just a few months ago, the list cov…
Revelation Film Festival - 20 Years of Unique Films
Based in just about the middle of nowhere is the Sleepy Little Deathtoll Town that is Perth. We’re technically the most isolated city in the world, with some of our biggest claims to fame being the bi…
Best Australian Films of 2016
2016 was another solid year for Australian cinema with some fantastic dramas, comedies and documentaries all being produced by great Australian talent. It was also the year that we decided to launch a…
In Which Andrew Tells... Why Cinema Will Never Die.
In Which Andrew Tells… is a series of articles about a certain topic, film or event, where Andrew - the unlikely voice of reason - tells that particular topic, film or event a hard truth. Whether that…
In Which Andrew Tells... How to Create Equality in Cinema.
In Which Andrew Tells… is a series of articles about a certain topic, film or event, where Andrew - the unlikely voice of reason - tells that particular topic, film or event a hard truth. Whether that…
Best Film Prints of 2015
Five Things You Learn as a Vet Nurse.
A year ago I left my career as a vet nurse behind and moved on. Whilst we mostly cover film and television here, I feel it's worthwhile sharing this post where I talk about five things I learned i…
The Fault in Our Ability to Accept an Open Ending
A while ago, I ran a blog called Your Acting's Like the End of the World. Now I have a website it makes some sense to bring some of the 'articles' across to provide a little more content o…