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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, di…
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 a…
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 most…
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 i…
Irish Director Lorcan Finnegan flew in to introduce his film, Vivarium, at its Australian premiere at Melbourne International Film Festival, and when he said it was a “mind-bending” film, he wasn’t ly…
The power of enduring stories is that they can be reshaped, remoulded, transmogrified, and morphed throughout time to become echoes of what they once were. Shakespeare’s Hamlet is one such story, havi…
It’s always fascinating to see how non-Australian directors handle Australian stories. What views do they bring to Australia, and how do those views inform the Australian story they intend to tell? Te…
For the majority of film reviewers in Australia, Palm Beach is not a film aimed at them. With a huge wealth of older reviewers having been costed out of the industry due to decreasing wages and becaus…
Amidst the deceptive darkness of the wide open outback, the moon hangs high in the sky like a beacon, luring a young girl from her bedroom and into a world she knows little about. Startled out of her…
Savage Youth is like someone distilled the joyful, open road youth of American Honey, with the caustic neon drenched vibrancy of Spring Breakers, and dashed in an unhealthy dash of misguided whiteness…
Based on the 2015 novel by Nicholas Searle, The Good Liar reunites Gods and Monsters and Mr. Holmes director Bill Condon with acting legend Sir Ian McKellen for the fourth time – and the equally legen…
International Fallscould easily be called The Loneliness of the Long Distance Stand Up Comic, given its honest portrayal of a touring comedian who visits the ice box of America to give his final perfo…