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Adele Lim’s hilarious Joy Ride was originally titled The Joy Fuck Club, which is pithy and biting in its own way, but implies a one-dimensionality to the film which it steadfastly avoids. Yes, it is c…
I Like Movies screens at Perth's Revelation Film Festival on July 12 and 14. For Lawrence Kweller (Isaiah Lehtinen) the protagonist of Chandler Levack’s debut feature I Like Movies the title is s…
Riceboy Sleeps screens at Perth's Revelation Film Festival on July 13 and 14. Canadian director Anthony Shim’s immigrant drama Riceboy Sleeps is a film that juxtaposes emotional distance and inti…
More stunning than Avatar: The Way of Water, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse is the big-event film of the year. It is a concentrated blast of colour and soundv– the type so dense that you’ll have…
It is a truth universally acknowledged that Indiana Jones movies are best when they feature the titular hero punching Nazis. James Mangold, taking the reins from Steven Spielberg, is well aware of thi…
Master Gardener is Paul Schrader’s latest entry into his loose trilogy of solitary men that started with First Reformed (2017) and The Card Counter (2021), it is also his most romantic, or whatever ro…
Harried Parisian taxi driver Charles (Dany Boon) is not having a good day. In fact he’s not having a good anything. He is tired of being stuck inside his taxi for hours on end and barely making a livi…
This review contains mentions of abuse and sexual assault Smoke Sauna Sisterhood screens at Perth's Revelation Film Festival on July 12, 14 and 15. “For my sisters” Anna Hints’ beguiling docume…
The phenomenal success of Pixar studios has meant that audiences view it as a benchmark for family themed animation. It has also meant that when Pixar releases anything that is considered below par, a…
The saga of getting The Flash to screens is enough to be a movie in itself. Going through several writers and a couple of directors, the death of the Snyderverse, the new guard of the DCEU, James Gunn…
It’s 1988 and Newcastle P.E. teacher Jean Newman (Rosy McEwen) is surrounded by noise. A naturally rather tense woman who needs relaxation tapes to sleep, the noise is breaking her down. It isn’t just…
The first thought that comes to mind when thinking about Hasbro’s Transformers are usually giant mechanical vehicles transforming into humanoid mechanical creatures - punching and shooting other mecha…