Samson & Delilah Review - Sadly Timeless
Every now and then a film comes along that, for you, will never become irrelevant. The themes that it carries, the messages it sends, the honesty and compassion it expresses just align with what you f…
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The Nightingale - Adelaide Film Festival Review
In 2014 Jennifer Kent’s The Babadook was released. The ultra-creepy Australian film was her first feature and it was the highest of quality. The film won a host of awards as did the director. It’s a h…
In Like Flynn Review
In Like Flynn, the latest offering from iconic Australian director Russel Mulcahy is a bumpy ride. Mulcahy, whose credits include Razorback, Highlander, Resident Evil: Extinction, the underrated Give…
Island of the Hungry Ghosts - Adelaide Film Festival Review
Poh Lin Lee is a trauma counsellor who lives on Christmas Island with her family. Her job consists of assisting the asylum seekers who have been detained in the detention centre on the remote island.…
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs - Adelaide Film Festival Review
I don’t like Coen brothers’ films. I did not like Fargo, I hated The Big Lebowski (yea that’s right, I said it, dude), I was not a fan of O Brother, Where art Thou? The Ladykillers was a complete bore…
Hotel Mumbai - Adelaide Film Festival Review
In November of 2008, four terrorists entered the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in Mumbai, India. They began to massacre everyone they came across. Without going into too much detail, the siege lasted over 60…
Halloween (2018) Review
Horror films are fantastic affairs - they force us to sit with our demons, and reconcile with the feeling of finding comfort and joy from being terrified. John Carpenter's original classic brought…
Journey Review
The visual and aural feast that is thatgamecompany's Journeyhas made its way to the Playstation 4, allowing a new group of players the opportunity to embody mute, cloaked jawas on their trek to th…
Beautiful Boy Review
The film watching period between October and January is one that’s full with films that simply exist to earn their talent an Oscar nomination. These are films that roll along, exist in the public cons…
Unravel Review
Unravel is the equivalent of looking at your very talented photographer friend’s holiday shots. Their photos of mountaintops and luscious forests look absolutely brilliant and are some of the finest p…
Spider-Man and the Map of Markers - Playstation 4 Review
Spider-Man. Peter Parker. Great power. Great responsibility. Yada yada yada. You know the drill. After three different cinematic portrayals of the web swinging New Yorker (with a massive, multi-unive…
Jirga Review
War stories on film are often focused on the soldiers journey, presenting their path in war as an 'us v them' mentality. So rarely do they explore what the 'other side' is going throug…