Film Review: Onward (2020)
byThe team at Disney Pixar simply don’t know how to make a bad film. And it’s inevitable that their latest release, Onward, will join…
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Film Review: Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (2018)
byWith a cast full to the brim with British thespians, an established filmmaker and a gorgeous English Homestead for a setting, one might expect…
Film Review: In Fabric (2018)
byIf the Bourke Street Myer windows at Christmas were given over to the control of director Peter Strickland, you probably wouldn’t be taking your…
Film Review: Queen and Slim (2019)
byIn Queen & Slim, director Melina Matsoukas wastes no time getting into the action; after a brief introduction to our leads over a diner…
Film Review: Downhill (2020)
byThere are notable exceptions – think A Bigger Splash, Some Like it Hot or The Birdcage – but the rule that English-language remakes are…
Film Review: Honeyland (2019)
byFor almost sixty years Hatidže has walked and worked the stark, sparse valley and mountain landscape of remote northern Macedonia. We first see her…
Film Review: Dark Waters (2019)
byDark Waters is based on an illuminating New York Times article about a corporate defence lawyer, Rob Bilott (Mark Ruffalo). Bilott is an associate…
Film Review: Guns Akimbo (2019)
byGuns Akimbo is a grindhouse-light, high-octane affair with a colourful Scott Pilgrim aesthetic and tone. That’s a complicated assessment of a simple film. Daniel…
Film Review: Colour Out of Space (2019)
byThere’s plenty of hype around Colour Out of Space for a variety of reasons: Richard Stanley directs his first film after his infamous sacking…
Film Review: The Lighthouse (2019)
byDirector Robert Eggers’ second film is a dreary, deranged dream – strange and surreal and inscrutable. In The Lighthouse, Eggers, with a screenplay he co-wrote…