Film Review: John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019)
Stuntman turned director Chad Stahelski’s John Wick trilogy reaches violent new heights in its third outing. Parabellum, coming from the latin phrase ‘Si vis…
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Film Review: Peterloo (2018)
The year is 1819. In the north of England the working class are governed by their stomachs, and committing petty crime gets a sentence…
Film Review: Pokémon Detective Pikachu (2019)
In 2000 Nintendo abandoned the feature where a Pokémon would follow your character around from its series of Game Boy games. And it’s only…
Film Review: Top End Wedding (2019)
Back in 2012 the nation fell in love with Miranda Tapsell, the rambunctious Cynthia in instant classic The Sapphires. After star turns in Love…
Film Review: Gloria Bell (2018)
There’s a tried and tested formula for remaking successful foreign films in English. It’s been done many times with classics and independent hits alike….
Film Review: 1985 (2018)
As the thirty year cycle of nostalgia plunges us deeper into the 1980s, American-Malaysian director Yen Tan goes back to the Christmas of 1985….
Film Review: NT Live: The Tragedy of King Richard the Second (2019)
Simon Russell Beale may be one of the pre-eminent Shakespearean actors of today, but it seems even someone of his presence can be let…
Film Review: The Aftermath (2019)
Five months after the Nazi Empire surrendered to the Allies, Hamburg is the skeleton of a city. The promise of the Thousand Year Reich…
Film Review: The Hole in the Ground (2019)
In the last few years horror films have developed a fascination with parental anxiety. Perhaps it’s the reality of climate change sparking fear about…
Film Review: Wonder Park (2019)
It is not outrageous to proclaim that Disney rules the animated world, and their CGI sister Pixar traverse the divide between films for children…