In Review
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Film Review - Joker: Folie À Deux
It's interesting that for all the film's grappling with Arthur's identity crisis, Folie à Deux winds up having one of its own
Italian Film Fest 2024 Review - Gloria!
Margherita Vicario’s directorial debut is a lively feature that sings with heartfelt moments and comedic witticisms alike, pulling audiences in for a story that is nothing short of glorious.
Film Review - NT Live: Prima Facie
Prima Facie is a play that refuses to be taken at face value.
TV Review - The Penguin Episode 1
Drawing out the melancholic chaos of its cinematic counterpart, The Penguin’s premiere episode enables a seamless transition in format – offering a richly textured character study which hooks you from minute aught.
Italian Film Fest 2024 Review - The Beautiful Summer
If you like pretty Italian towns then you might find some enjoyment, but if you're looking for a compelling film I suggest you look elsewhere.
Film Review - Megalopolis
It's hard to say how the film will be received by audiences now, but it is sure to have an impact.
Film Review - Runt
If you’re into Aussie battlers, beautiful Australian scenery, cute speedy dogs, and blatantly crying your heart out in public then Runt is the film for you.
MIFF 2024 Film Review - Us and the Night
I don’t know if I will ever get to watch Us and the Night again given its unique formatting and distribution, but it’s quite radically put my love of film into perspective.
MIFF 2024 Film Review - Janet Planet
Through the Summer of 1991 in rural Massachusetts, the unapologetic yet awkward 11-year-old Lacy (newcomer Zoe Ziegler) is entrenched in the captivating orbit of her mother Janet (Julianne Nicholson).
MIFF 2024 Film Review - All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
A quietly ambitious work sure to attract allegations of pretension, Raven Jackson swings big in All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt.
MIFF 2024 Film Review - The Substance
If there was ever a flick to skip the popcorn on, it’s this one. Coralie Fargeat’s latest film, The Substance (2024), is a stomach-churning concoction of body horror and comedy that makes for an insanely monstrous watch.
MIFF 2024 Film Review - Memoir of a Snail
Memoir of a Snail is an absolute triumph, cementing Elliot as a visionary and one of the best in his field.
MIFF 2024 Film Review - Abiding Nowhere
It’d be easy to label Abiding Nowhere as tranquil and meditative, as it certainly is, but I still see so much of Ming-liang’s earlier passion present in the form of this late-stage mellowness.
MIFF 2024 Film Review - I Saw the TV Glow
Director Jane Schoenbrun impresses with I Saw The TV Glow - a horror flick which is only half-scary but full heartbreaking.
MIFF 2024 Film Review - Blackout
Whilst applaudable in its attempt to meld lycanthropy with modern-day political concerns, Blackout is a poignant character study hampered by heavy-handed exposition which renders its bark worse than its bite.
Film Review - It Ends with Us
Colleen Hoover’s controversial smash hit novel, It Ends With Us, has just hit theatres in all its soapy Hallmark glory.
Film Review - Tótem
The second feature from Mexican director Lily Avilles, Tótem, is an incredibly assured and mature film that depicts the emotional intimacy and fragility of an extended family dealing with loss.
Scandinavian Film Fest 2024 Review - The Riot
The events that took place in the Stuljema mines in 1907 are as inspiring as they are fascinating; they deserve a great film adaptation, The Riot is not this.