Safari Review
What is the image that comes up in your mind when you think of safari hunters? A white man with a large gun standing next to a fallen beast? Maybe they’re dressed in camouflage with a smile on their f…
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Spookers Review
Let’s get this out of the way first up – Florian Habicht’s documentary Spookers is the best documentary in 2017. It’s been a great year for documentaries, but this film about the most successful scare…
A Ghost Story Review
Film reviews often exist in a vacuum. They are written surrounding a films release, they're read in that small window where the films social media relevance is at its prime, and then they disappea…
Meal Tickets Review
Filmed over ten years and encompassing different cities, across different countries, Meal Tickets is a documentary about evolving personalities. In particular, the evolving personality of artists from…
Transformers: The Last Knight Review
Transformers: The Last Knight marks the fifth entry into this cacophonic Michael Bay helmed film series. Those who embarked on the journeys of Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and Sam Witwicky (he of the Witw…
Dave Made a Maze Review
There’s something refreshing about sitting in a cinema and not knowing what it is you’re about to watch. A minute or two before the lights dimmed, we were told the title of what we were watching – Dav…
Transformers: Age of Extinction Review
Way back in 2014, Michael Bay released his fourth - and then, due to be last - Transformers film, I wrote this pretty awful review which was blatantly ignorant and really, quite stupid. It was in the…
Kedi Review
The internet is, quite obviously, obsessed with cats. So much so that it can be a minefield trying to navigate social media or YouTube without being hit with a gif of a cat doing something cute or nef…
Loving Review
The true story of Richard and Mildred Loving is one that is ripe for a film adaptation. On paper, one can easily conjure up a saccharine version of this film beat for beat: a story of a couple in love…
The LEGO Batman Movie Review
The grand imagination of Will Ferrell and his son was brought to life in 2014's much loved The Lego Movie. What could easily have been a feature length advertisement for little plastic blocks inst…
Lion Review
It’s very easy for an inspirational true story to be translated into a film in a very preachy, sentimental manner. Boost the manipulative score at the right moments, implement a voice over to help con…
Long Weekend - Blu-Ray/DVD Review
If you haven’t seen Long Weekend – a true classic in Australian cinema – then this new Umbrella release is the way to go. One of the stereotypes of Australia as a country is that everything is out to…