Film Review: Birds of Passage (2018)
byIn the current climate there’s no shortage of crime epics or drug dramas. Narcotrafficking is the storytelling flavour of the month – Netflix seems…
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Film Review: Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark (2019)
byScary Stories to Tell in the Dark is a film adaptation of the bestselling cult book popular with children and adults alike for the…
Film Review: Ride Like a Girl (2019)
byRegardless of your views on the horse racing industry, Michelle Payne’s story was always going to be a movie. Tragedy, injury, humour, small-town girl…
Film Review: The Dead Don’t Die (2019)
byThe world is veering off its axis. The moon has the blue shimmer of a stove-top burner. Clocks have stopped working. And in the…
Film Review: The Brink (2019)
byDocumentary filmmaker Alison Klayman burst onto the scene with her successful 2012 documentary debut Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. A few films later and Alison has…
Film Review: Ad Astra (2019)
byWriting takes time. Sorting out your thoughts and feelings and reactions takes time. But often we see only films just before they’re released and…
Film Review: Animals (2019)
bySince the critical success of her debut feature 52 Tuesdays, Adelaide filmmaker Sophie Hyde has had her fingers in many pies, including this SBS…
Film Review: Good Boys (2019)
byIt feels like 12-year-old me – which was not that long ago – grew up in a different world to today’s kids. We didn’t…
Film Review: It Chapter Two (2019)
byFor the creatively named It Chapter Two, sequel to 2017’s It, director Andy Muschietti, screenwriter Gary Dauberman, and cinematographer Checco Varese all return. This…
Film Review: Midsommar (2019)
byWriter-director Ari Aster is already proving himself to be one of the sharpest voices in contemporary horror. After his impressive directorial debut Hereditary last…