Film Review: Promised (2019)
byIntent and effort count for a lot but, unfortunately for Promised, it can’t make up for the numerous flaws that reduce this Melbourne production…
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Film Review: The Eulogy (2018)
byAt the age of 54, destitute and alone, Geoffrey Tozer died in his rented Melbourne home. In a stinging 45-minute obituary Paul Keating, a long-term…
Film Review: Green Light (2019)
by“I question the wisdom of this film” says the lead of Ned Donohoe’s important new documentary. Medical cannabis becoming legal is only a matter…
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: Wayne (2018)
byReal and unexaggerated ‘Rags to Riches’ tales are a very rare find, so to come across one that not only happened in rural Australia…
Film Review: For the Love of God (2018)
byFor the Love of God, or to use its full title: For the Love of God: How the Church is Better and Worse Than…
Film Review: Peter Rabbit (2018)
byThe Tale of Peter Rabbit came out in 1902, which means that this beloved rabbit and his friends have been charming the English speaking…
Film Review: Kangaroo (2017)
byThink of Australia and you think of the kangaroo. A creature that was on this country 250,000 years before Indigenous Australians, an animal with…
Film Review: Swinging Safari (2018)
byStephan Elliot has essentially mastered his own unique sub-genre here in Australia. With outrageous comedies like Priscilla that have their own slice of humour…
Film Review: What If It Works? (2017)
byFilms about mental illness aren’t the easiest things to make. There are so many nuances to understand and avenues to explore, difficulties which are…