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Powered by JustWatch In 1999, Heath Ledger arrived on cinemas screens as a fully formed film star with a one-two punch of stellar films. His laid-back looks and easy-going ocker attitude made hi…
Powered by JustWatch Rightio: Let’s get this over with. Existential cynicism; fractured romance; projective introspection; all of the hallmarks which transform Charlie Kaufman into a misanthrop…
Powered by JustWatch Writer and director Cory Finley burst onto the scene almost out of nowhere with his 2018 debut Thoroughbreds. His career started as a playwright, and impressed Oscar winners…
Powered by JustWatch 2016’s Train to Busan is one of those movies that people got interested in regardless of its international beginnings. It has all the trappings of a modern hit: zombie horro…
Powered by JustWatch In Australia, Winter is coming to an end, and as the warm seasons roll on, so do the refreshing comforts of the Summer months. Cold beers taste better on a searing hot day,…
Every so often, two similar films arrive in the same calendar year. In 1997, Dante’s Peak and Volcano erupted onto screens. In 1998 there were triple bill double ups with Armageddon and Deep Impact se…
Powered by JustWatch This review contains discussions of death and trauma. I’ve written this review countless times in my head over the years since my first viewing of Toa Fraser’s Dean Spanley…
On January 10 2020 recording artist and YouTube enigma Poppy released her third studio album, I Disagree. It was a transformative record that offered a dizzying blend of melodic pure pop, nu metal, in…
Powered by JustWatch Screen biographies of music artists have been coming thick and fast in recent times. Olivia Newton-John, INXS, The Easybeats and even Molly Meldrum have scored their own dra…
Powered by JustWatch The curiously titled Adam (آدم) is the first film from Morrocan director Maryam Touzani, nominated for Un Certain Regard at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival. This delicate and…
The first feature film from director Samuel Van Grinsven pulls no punches in identifying that it is a homosexual film. The title card claims the film’s orientation and doesn’t wait for the audience to…
Jayro Bustamante’s new slow burn horror film La Llorona is less interested in what most would call traditional horror and more concerned with a political spectre that hangs over the country of Guatema…