Film Review: Pain & Glory (2019)
A Pedro Almodovar film can be a little like an amusement ride down a dark tunnel. Will it be romantic? Titillating? Kitsch? Enthralling? The…
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Film Review: Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
There’s a scene in the first season of Lost where two main characters find their friend Charlie hanging from a tree. Jack, who is…
Film Review: Fisherman’s Friends (2019)
Clusters of orange lichen-covered roofs, peeks of sandy beach, and ocean spreading into the distance. Gull cries mixed with the slap of waves against…
Film Review: Maiden (2018)
As the Me Too era feels like it’s starting to flag, and endless all female reboots of traditionally male franchises has reached peak cringe,…
Film Review: Blinded by the Light (2019)
Based on the memoir of British journalist Sarfraz Manzoor Greeting From Bury Park: Race, Religion and Rock N’ Roll, Blinded by the Light is…
Film Review: Promised (2019)
Intent and effort count for a lot but, unfortunately for Promised, it can’t make up for the numerous flaws that reduce this Melbourne production…
Film Review: Locusts (2019)
If there’s one thing the Australian film industry is great at, it’s turning our gaze inwards to this country’s dirty underbelly. Australia loves stories…
Film Review: Strange But True (2019)
Strange But True is a puzzle, but ultimately not in the way that it wants to be. It has you guessing to begin with, trying…
Film Review: The Portal (2019)
Twenty minutes into The Portal, you’d be forgiven for not knowing what you’re watching. By this stage, director/writer Jacqui Fifer and co-writer Tom Cronin have introduced…
Film Review: The Eulogy (2018)
At the age of 54, destitute and alone, Geoffrey Tozer died in his rented Melbourne home. In a stinging 45-minute obituary Paul Keating, a long-term…