Film Review: Free Solo (2018)
byAs filmgoers we’re immune to seeing characters flirt with death, suffer cruel injuries and even fall from extreme heights. But in most cases, we’re…
Film Review: Storm Boy (2019)
byBased on Colin Thiele’s children’s book, which gave us the Australian classic from 1976, Shawn Seet’s remake of Storm Boy is a decent adaptation which…
Film Review: The Kid Who Would Be King (2019)
byJoe Cornish follows up on his underrated and underviewed debut Attack the Block with this childhood adventure fantasy. A play on words from 1979…
Film Review: Mary Queen of Scots (2018)
byHaving been in the pipeline for several years, Mary Queen of Scots, directed by Josie Rourke, finally makes it to the big screen. Based…
Film Review: Loro (2018)
byItalian maestro Paolo Sorrentino returns to our screens with Loro, an uneven but wickedly entertaining take on Italy’s bizarre former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi….
Film Review: Glass (2019)
byA few years ago M. Night Shyamalan foreshadowed a return to his past in the final moments of his surprise hit, Split. If you’re…
Top 10 of 2018
byAt Film Blerg, we like to take some time to review the year of theatrical releases at the Australian box office and then come…
Film Review: Instant Family (2018)
byWriter-director Sean Anders may have been responsible for the visionary Hot Tub Time Machine, but don’t let that taint your anticipation of his newest…
Film Review: Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. (2018)
by‘It’s not the film that I would have made.’ So says Matangi Arulpragasam, known on-stage as M.I.A., after initially watching her friend (or maybe…
Film Review: Pick of the Litter (2018)
byHaving grown up with two black Labradors, I’ve always been curious as to how a dog takes up a career as a seeing-eye dog….