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Ad Astra Review – Yet Another Space Odyssey About Abandonment

Hagan Osborne
September 19, 2019
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Given the slew of movies focusing on stranded astronauts with parent issues, you’d be forgiven for thinking that people only go into space to avoid their families. As fascinated as filmmakers are by the dar...

The Farewell Review – Chris’s Take

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September 19, 2019
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Written and directed by Lulu Wang, The Farewell stars Awkwafina as Billi, a young woman from New York with Chinese heritage who, after learning her grandmother Nai Nai (Zhao Shuzhen) has lung cancer, travels b...

Suburban Wildlife Review – Generation Z Angst in the Suburbs of Sydney

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September 17, 2019
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Like a comedian recycling his own jokes, I’m going to riff on the opening of my Hot Mess review as I set the scene for why Suburban Wildlife is a good film. Hot Mess and Chocolate Oyster are the step-aunt and ...

The Farewell Review – Jonathan’s Take

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September 17, 2019
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Families are peculiar… we laugh, we fight, we cry across all manner of cultures and ethnicities around the world, and yet there are core universal, familial values that anyone can connect and respond to. Wheth...

Downton Abbey Review – An Elaborate Film with Impeccable Performances

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September 12, 2019
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Believe it or not, a clown with an appetite for children is not the most frightening figure in cinema’s right now. Quite the opposite. Pennywise would sooner retreat to a sewer than face the unamused cur...

Dragged Across Concrete Review – A Tremendous and Impactful Film

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September 4, 2019
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In 2015 S. Craig Zahler came out with Bone Tomahawk, his directorial debut. While I was disappointed that Timothy Olyphant dropped out of the original cast, I was absolutely delighted when I watched the film. ...

Buoyancy Cinefest Oz Review – A Brutal Exploration of Modern Slavery

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I’ll preface this review by saying that of late, I’ve been attempting to watch films with as little prior knowledge as possible. After all, trailers and plot synopses give away so much of the film, dictating h...

The Nightingale Review – An intense, Breathtaking and Essential piece of Australian Film.

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September 2, 2019
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The Babadook’s Jennifer Kent returns for her second directorial feature with The Nightingale - an incredibly raw depiction of Colonial era Tasmania that is relentless in its discomfort and makes for an extreme...

Mac and Me Review – An Unfairly Maligned Hopeful Film

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In 1988, director Stewart Raffill released his follow up to the moderately successful The Philadelphia Experiment. Raffill’s career has never been one to garner awards attention, having delivered mostly genre f...

Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood Review – This Might Just be the Coolest Film of 2019, and That is Not Okay.

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Quentin Tarantino is at a stage in his career where he could film someone clipping their toe-nails and have it be called a masterpiece by the film community. And going by the number of feet featured in histori...
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