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Carmentis Review – Proof of a Great Director on the Rise

Andrew F Peirce
May 12, 2020
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Australia isn’t well known for its sci-fi films, but it’s clear that with his visionary short film Carmentis, writer-director Antony Webb intends to change that mentality. Made over many years in Perth, this p...

Color Out Of Space Review – Yet Another Begrudging Ride on the Nicolas Cage-Express to Camp-city

Hagan Osborne
May 11, 2020
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Taking the supernatural sensibilities of H.P. Lovecraft’s beloved 1927 sci-fi tale and transporting into contemporary America, writer-director Richard Stanley overloads Color Out of Space with enough B-Film de...

Animal Crossing: The Pleasure of Conformity

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May 5, 2020
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Finding the familiar during global uncertainty... I landed on an uninhabited island, accompanied by a bird and a hamster, guided by a racoon. The grass an unnaturally verdant primary green, peppered with tr...

Hearts and Bones Review – A Rare Thing: A Moment of Healing

David Giannini
May 4, 2020
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As humans, the way we process pain can seem mysterious. Many of us think of pain as a purely physical phenomenon.  We get injured, we bruise or bleed, we heal. But when lives are on the line, it is sadly ...

Butt Boy Review – A Film That Eagerly Disappears Up its Own Ass

Andrew F Peirce
May 2, 2020
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And they said original ideas were gone. Tyler Cornack has the status of having created a cult film in his mind with his indie-thriller Butt Boy. Taking triple duties here as co-writer/director/actor, Tyler ...

Rabbit Hole Review – Finding a Future After Spiralling Grief and Loss

Nadine Whitney
April 29, 2020
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From outré queer director and musical theatre genius, John Cameron Mitchell comes a revelatory piece of understated suburban melodrama exploring the complex nature of grief when complicated by intricate famili...

Parasite Review – 92nd Best Picture Winner: Patreon Exclusive

Andrew F Peirce
April 28, 2020
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A devilish question to ask viewers of Bong Joon-ho’s history defining Best Picture winner, Parasite, is who they believe the titular parasite to be? Is it the Kim’s? A lower-class family, eking whatever oun...

The Throwback Review – Celebration for the Fading Video Store

Andrew F Peirce
April 21, 2020
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Growing up, I used to peruse the aisles of the Canning Bridge Civic Video – a mammoth store with an obnoxious, yet comforting, yellow banner, replete with Groucho Marx and cigar, now turned into an equally mam...

Don’t Let Go Review – Acceptable Isolation Entertainment

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April 20, 2020
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Two decades ago, the earth had a pretty decent sci-fi crime thriller in the form of Dennis Quaid and Jim Caviezel starrer Frequency. It was reasonably original and great entertainment. In 2016 a TV series of F...

The Goodies: Comedy in a Crisis, and the Loss of Tim Brooke-Taylor

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April 16, 2020
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Australians of a certain age would have fond memories of watching The Goodies and Doctor Who in the hour leading up to the ABC's 7 o'clock news. While the BBC has for many years mined the revenue potential of ...
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