Film Review: Storm Boy (2019)
Based on Colin Thiele’s children’s book, which gave us the Australian classic from 1976, Shawn Seet’s remake of Storm Boy is a decent adaptation which…
Film Review: Loro (2018)
Italian maestro Paolo Sorrentino returns to our screens with Loro, an uneven but wickedly entertaining take on Italy’s bizarre former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi….
Film Review: The Favourite (2018)
In modern filmmaking there are few directors who have stamped as unique a footprint as Yorgos Lanthimos. This idiosyncratic Greek is impossible to ignore,…
Film Review: Cold War (2018)
Cold War is about damaged people in a damaged country in a damaged world. Polish director Paweł Pawlikowski’s monochrome follow up, and in some…
Film Review: Bumblebee (2018)
Ever since Transformers arrived on cinema screens in 2007 the series has been the great example of the disconnect between critics and ticket buying…
Film Review: Peppermint (2018)
Every moment in culture is reflected in the art it produces. In a world changing as swiftly and as fundamentally as the one we…
Film Review: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018)
In the seemingly endless stream of Spider-Man films that flow into cinemas every other year, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse signals the arrival of a…
Film Review: The Grinch (2018)
Another month passes, another moderate success from the last 30 years gets remade. On the roulette wheel of Hollywood desperately searching for new franchises…
Film Review: You Might Be The Killer (2018)
Horror as a genre has weathered every change that filmmaking movements and social change can throw at it. As the popular, if untrue, adage…
Film Review: Wolfman’s Got Nards (2018)
In the current moment of popular culture there is no force more powerful than 1980s nostalgia. This isn’t too surprising, because as a general…