Film Review: The Wild Boys (2017)
The film opens in black and white on a secluded beach at night. A young man narrating the sequence is saved from a lion…
By The Sea
Film Review: Everybody Knows (2018)
Asghar Farhadi has done everything right for Everybody Knows —almost. He’s got the postcard-perfect rural Spanish town, the star-studded cast, the promising and pulsing trailer,…
Film Review: Greta (2018)
Neil Jordan has a long history of films that seem to divide opinion; opinions that change over the years as his films are reassessed….
Film Review: The Bikes of Wrath (2019)
There are many reasons to go on a particular, specific road-trip: you saw it in a film and fell in love with the scenery…
Film Review: At Eternity’s Gate (2018)
The life and death of Vincent Van Gogh has been an obsession of the art world for 128 years now, and still the vision…
Film Review: Capharnaüm (2018)
Is it fair that our children often bear the burden of the worlds that they are brought into? Capharnaüm, directed by Lebanese director Nadine…
Film Review: Green Book (2018)
In the shamefully recent past of the mid-twentieth century, Victor Hugo Green, a New York City mail-man, published The Negro-Motorist Green Book annually. It…
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…
Top 10 of 2018
At Film Blerg, we like to take some time to review the year of theatrical releases at the Australian box office and then come…
Film Review: Instant Family (2018)
Writer-director Sean Anders may have been responsible for the visionary Hot Tub Time Machine, but don’t let that taint your anticipation of his newest…