Parasite Review - 92nd Best Picture Winner
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 whate…
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The Throwback Review - Celebration for the Fading Video Store
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 eq…
Don’t Let Go Review – Acceptable Isolation Entertainment
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 se…
The Goodies: Comedy in a Crisis, and the Loss of Tim Brooke-Taylor
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 reve…
Protect and Serve Review - A Dive into the Moral Dilemma of Police
“People sleep peacefully in their beds at night, because rough men stand ready to do violence, on their behalf; and they will fucking hate you for it” – Ray Mandel, Protect and Serve Protect and Serv…
Astronaut Review - A Much Needed Lift (Off)
Covid-19 hasn’t exactly brought the best out in people; there’s been violence, abuse, harassment, racism, and a shitload of fines. Seeing any positivity, especially in the mainstream media, has been s…
Love Bug Review - Digital Romance in the Time of Corona
The current immersion of the world into a state of stasis has put a hold on creative projects. Everything from Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis film to the latest Marvel flick has had the kibosh put on them while…
The Platform Review – The Best Heavy Metal Movie Ever Made
Well, if there was ever a time for movies about people locked in confined spaces slowly going nuts, it’s surely now. Or maybe it isn’t; escapist fantasy might be the order of the day when you literall…
Onward Review - A Perfectly Mindless Fantasy for These Dangerous Days
Life sucks. Everything I write might as well start like that from now until… whenever this current state of the world ends. I spent my last week of social opportunity having a good final cinema day fo…
In Fabric Review - A Reminder That Peter Strickland is Capable of Far Superior Work
Peter Strickland is a stylist who wears his influences on his exquisitely curse embroidered sleeve. Whilst his homages to the stylistic influences of Italian Giallo were successful in both Berberian S…
Bloodshot Review - A Competently Made Slice of Blandness
What does Vin Diesel do between Fast & Furious movies? Anything he wants it seems. From hunting witches, being the best secret agent and extreme sports star in the world, an alien bounty hunter or…
The Set Review - Important, Invaluable, but Not Good
Powered by JustWatch The lesson to be taken from the 1970 Australian film The Set, recently released for home audiences by Bounty Films, is that “important” is not the same as “good”. Widely rec…