Reviews
Green Room (2015) Movie Review: "See No Evil, Hear No Evil"
Hope cased within the bleak despair makes Saulnier an essential filmmaker to follow.
Everybody Wants Some!! (2016): “Boyhood continued"
Everybody Wants Some, like Dazed and Confused, feels like having old friends over, listening to records & reminiscing.
Suicide Squad (2016) Movie Review: “Really, really, BAD”
Suicide Squad is one long stuttering introduction with fugitive glimpses of the film's potential.
Love & Friendship (2016) Movie Review: “War and Peas”
Whit Stillman said that his primary filmic influence for Love & Friendship was the Steve Martin and Michael Caine slice of genius Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Scoundrels would be proud to see the result of his love and friendship.
Eye in the Sky (2015) Movie Review: “Watching me, watching you.”
Eye in the Sky is a taught, thrilling tale of war time morality told with sophistication and aesthetic homage to the great Steven Spielberg.
Weiner (2016) MIFF Movie Review: Weiner, pls
Oh Weiner, Weiner, Weiner. What are we going to do with you?
The Salesman (2016) MIFF Movie Review: Farhadi, You’ve Done It Again!
While The Salesman might not pack the same punch as A Separation (let’s face it, not a lot does), its suspense and tension is transfixing and ultimately devastating.
Jason Bourne (2016) Movie Review: "Bourne This Way"
Bringing the Bourne band back together with director Paul Greengrass, Matt Damon and some great session players in Tommy Lee Jones, Alicia Vikander and Vincent Cassel is great; but it feels like déjà vu.
Star Trek Beyond (2016) Movie Review: “Pine-ing for Purpose”
Beyond doesn’t quite have the magic of Abrams’ Trek; but it shouldn’t. If Trek is about dreams, Beyond solidifies the reality.
Batman: The Killing Joke Movie Review – Cowl Controversy or Batshit?
Batman: The Killing Joke is like Two-Face’s coin; a pristine perfect adaptation on the one side and on the other, according to a large portion of people who viewed the film, a defilement of Batgirl and Barbara Gordon.
Personal Shopper (2016) Movie Review: I Boo Dead People
Personal Shopper is a film with the power to beguile and send you into a rage.
Swiss Army Man (2016) Movie Review: Home is Where the Farting Corpse Is [Sydney Film Festival]
Swiss Army Man's reputation precedes itself. When you reanimate the corpse of our cinematic Harry Potter, Daniel Radcliffe, and have his arsehole barking out more noises than the guy from Police Academy, you'd expect the attention.
GHOSTBUSTERS (2016) Movie Review: It's true, these badass Ghostbusters have no dicks.
Ghostbusters is a riot.
The Nice Guys Movie Review: Nice Enough
This sordid 1970's fast-talking detective noir is the perfect sandbox for filmmaker Shane Black.
The Legend of Tarzan (David Yates - 2016) Movie Review
Alexander Skarsgård is the kind of guy that feels like words aren't his first language.
Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven - 2016) Movie Review [Sydney Film Festival]
Uplifting, devastating, touching, Mustang is a magnificent tale about sisters wrestling to break free of cultural and generational gender shackles.
Independence Day Resurgence (Roland Emmerich - 2016) Movie Review
Twenty years on and Independence Day Resurgence has the bombastic size, self effacing humour, and explosive badass sci-fi that's so fun that you don't mind that it's silly.
The Endless River (Oliver Hermanus - 2015) Movie Review [Sydney Film Festival]
South Africa is racial battleground. The wounds of the apartheid era and the institutional prejudice continue to affect the country.
Retirement Denial - Blood Father and Dirty Grandpa
There are flashes of pathos in this by the numbers, borderlands "careless actions by stupid daughter brings tough old bastard of a dad out of retirement" Blood Father, but they appear rarely & Dirty Grandpa is a film that almost makes you want to relegate the great De Niro to movie jail.
Down Under (Abe Forsythe - 2016) Movie Review [Sydney Film Festival]
Somehow a dark comedy about the Cronulla Riots, despite one's knee jerk rejection to that premise, is precisely what the Australian cinematic landscape needs.