Film Review: Upgrade (2018)
byIn Upgrade, director and screenwriter Leigh Whannell conjures a vision of the near future in which technology’s pervasive influence has become the norm. We are…
Current Theatrical Releases
Film Review: Incredibles 2 (2018)
byIn hindsight The Incredibles was far ahead of its time. Not only is it one of the best Pixar films – which is really…
Film Review: Kodachrome (2017)
byCanon announced this week that sales of its final film camera were coming to an end. The medium of physical film has held on…
Film Review: Ocean’s 8 (2018)
byWhy ask eleven men (or twelve, or thirteen) to do a job that will only take eight women, and who will do it in…
Film Review: Hereditary (2018)
byWith promises to be the year’s, if not the decade’s, scariest film, Hereditary wasn’t the best film for a small cinema in Western Australia…
Film Review: Tea With the Dames (2018)
byIn the age of the #TimesUp movement, which looks to change the culture of film and Hollywood, it’s refreshing to have a film focused…
Film Review: My Friend Dahmer (2017)
byJeffrey Dahmer murdered seventeen young men between 1978 and 1991. He’d lure them to his home, give them spiked drinks and strangle them, often having…
Film Review: The Bookshop (2018)
byWho wouldn’t like a bookshop in their main street? What kind of sociopath would it take to oppose such an innocent undertaking? These are…
Film Review: Cargo (2017)
byIs there anything original that can be done with zombies? Films, books, video games and television have all been swarmed with the walking dead…
Film Review: Deadpool 2 (2018)
byIn 2016 in these very pages I wrote about how Deadpool was breaking the dull, factory-like mould of superhero movies. I wondered if audiences…