Film review: 1917 (2019)
by1917 is expert cinema. Riveting from the first minute until the last, not one moment is wasted. Coupled with the engrossing plot it’s also…
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Film Review: The Shape of Water (2017)
byThere’s been much anticipation for Guillermo del Toro’s latest feature. With a highly successful festival run (taking home best director and score at the…
Film Review: Moonlight (2016)
byTo summarise Moonlight in one word – visceral. It would also be accurate to describe it as a gay black love story. Yet that…
Film Review: The Neon Demon (2016)
byNicolas Winding Refn’s The Neon Demon will be a dividing film like his previous feature, Only God Forgives. Right down the middle, these films…
Film Review: The Red Turtle (2016)
byHow wonderful it is to praise something with authenticity. With great pleasure I walked out of The Red Turtle, the latest Studio Ghibli production….
Film Review: Son of Saul (2015)
byWith what would have to be one of the most astonishing debut films of all time – and horrific in a way that is…
Film Review: Youth (2015)
byAfter his Oscar winning critical darling The Great Beauty, Italian writer/director Paolo Sorrentino delivers another masterpiece with Youth, a meditation on what it means…
Film Review: On the Waterfront (1954)
byWhen a film can survive VCE English class and still be looked upon with fond memories you know it’s something quite special. On the…
Film Review: Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)
byThe long and the short of Mad Max: Fury Road is this: Eat your heart out Michael Bay. George Miller, ex doctor and director…
Film Review: Ex Machina (2015)
byA great many science fiction stories have wrestled with the idea of artificial intelligence. In the case of the recent Battlestar Galactica reboot, and…