Come to Daddy - MIFF Review: An All Time Great
I am going to start this review by saying this: I love this movie. The credits hadn’t even been rolling for more than a second when I decided it is in my top 10 films of all time. Come to Daddy is a…
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Ophelia Review - A Welcome Recontextualisation of Shakespeare's Hamlet
The power of enduring stories is that they can be reshaped, remoulded, transmogrified, and morphed throughout time to become echoes of what they once were. Shakespeare’s Hamlet is one such story, havi…
The Pyjama Girl Case Review - Australia's Sole Giallo Film is a Depressing Affair
It’s always fascinating to see how non-Australian directors handle Australian stories. What views do they bring to Australia, and how do those views inform the Australian story they intend to tell? Te…
Palm Beach Review - A Welcome Celebration of White Privilege
For the majority of film reviewers in Australia, Palm Beach is not a film aimed at them. With a huge wealth of older reviewers having been costed out of the industry due to decreasing wages and becaus…
Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw Review - Much Noise, Little Wow
We’re eight films deep in the main Fast & Furious franchise, and thanks to some off screen squabbling between series headliner Vin Diesel and franchise kick-starter Dwayne Johnson, we’re now prese…
Fortress Review - A Minor Australian Gothic Classic
Actor and filmmaker Rachel Ward is currently collecting praise and criticism for her second feature film as director, the boomers-on-a-weekend-binge dramedy Palm Beach, which opened the Sydney Film Fe…
One Night the Moon Review - A Thematically Relevant Outback Opera
Amidst the deceptive darkness of the wide open outback, the moon hangs high in the sky like a beacon, luring a young girl from her bedroom and into a world she knows little about. Startled out of her…
City of Gold Review - The Welcome Arrogance of the Knowledgeable Critic
I first became aware of Jonathan Gold through film critics Dave White and Alonso Duralde on their podcast, Linoleum Knife. While they had discussed Gold on the show prior to his death in 2018, it was…
Booksmart Review - One Heck of a Joyous Comedy
Over the past few years, the wealth of teen girl focused comedies has been going into overdrive. With everything from Edge of Seventeen, to Easy A, to Lady Bird, to Blockers, the quality has been top…
The Ouroboros of Human Destruction: Acid Forest, Aquarela, Anthropocene: The Human Epoch Review
A stretch of forest on the border of Lithuania and Russia stands naked and bare, the leaves of the trees have been seared off by the caustic shit that cascades down from the cormorants that call the f…
Devil's Ballast Book Review - a Thrilling Tale of the Pirate Life of Anne Bonny by Meg Caddy
Buy Devil's Ballast from Booktopia here. It’s been a long while since I’ve found myself lost in a book to the point that I’ve felt fully immersed in the world with the characters. With Meg Caddy’…
Maybe It's Luck? Review - An Essential Time Capsule About Frenetic Perth Punk Rock
Perth’s Revelation Film Festival has been host to some truly brilliant Aussie rockumentaries, with Mat de Koning’s kick ass Meal Tickets and Travis Beard’s raucous Rockabul both blasting the roof off…