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There’s been precious few films this year that have left me well and truly bothered at their end. Godzilla: King of the Monsters left me quite bothered by its misguided attempt to instil ethics to its…
This review discusses sexual assault. Written and directed by François Ozon, By the Grace of God stars Melvil Poupaud, Denis Ménochet, and Swann Arlaud as three middle-aged survivors of sexual abuse…
Will we celebrate petrol-guzzling car-racing films thirty years from now? Perhaps the only sport where catching on fire is a possibility, the hardscrabble attempt by the Ford Motor Company to beat Fe…
There’s a point in the first episode of Perspective Shift that equally broke my heart and frustrated me. Daniel Monks, actor, director, writer, all round talented guy, is talking about the lengthy pro…
Written, directed, and edited by Mike Flanagan, Doctor Sleep stars Ewan McGregor as Dan Torrance, last seen as a child in Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining, and now a middle-aged alcoholic who has been co…
Directed by Paul Feig, Last Christmas stars Emilia Clarke as Kate, a young woman in London burning the candle at both ends and struggling every step of the way. Her life starts to turn around when she…
I’d long wondered what Martin Scorsese’s fascination with Italian-American gangsters was. Why had he dedicated so much of his career to telling the mostly true stories of some of the most violent, cor…
Happy Sad Man may be the most important film you’ll see this year. Director Genevieve Bailey turns the camera on five men and shows us who they are behind their smiling faces. These are men who look…
American Son is a Broadway play that has made the transition to film, with only four characters, it stars Kerry Washington (Fantastic 4, Django Unchained), Steven Pasquale (Rescue Me, AVP: Requiem), J…
Directed by Tim Miller, Terminator: Dark Fate stars Linda Hamilton returning as Sarah Connor, now reluctantly helping a mysterious future warrior named Grace (Mackenzie Davis), sent back in time to pr…
In comparison to the Australian film industry, the size of the American film industry is unfathomable. But the creativity of it is lacking. Remakes, revamps and sequels dominate the US market. With fr…
I was fortunate to pop along to the preview screening of Yuli – a beautiful and moving biopic about Cuban ballet dancer, Carlos Acosta (nicknamed Yuli by his father). As I write this, it’s World Ball…