Travis Johnson, Author at Celluloid & whiskey

They Thought it was Real: Mystery Series Limetown Blurs Reality and Fiction – but it’s Not the First

27/07/2021

SBS’s new mystery series Limetown sees Jessica Biel as Lia Haddock, a public radio journalist who starts to investigate the mass disappearance of the entire population of the titular town. Could the ...

Review: Malcolm and Marie (2021)

Travis Johnson

27/07/2021

Filmmaker Malcolm (John David Washington) is having a good night. The premiere of his debut film as writer and director is a success. Coming back to his luxurious apartment, he’s a little drunk and high on his...

Review: Sex/Life (2021)

Travis Johnson

26/07/2021

Maybe it says more about me than it does about Netflix’s eight part sexed-up soap opera, but that “High Impact Sex Scenes” content warning strikes me as blatant false adverting. Sex/Life’s sex scenes are gloss...

Review: Masters of the Universe: Revelation (2021)

Travis Johnson

26/07/2021

The real magic trick that Kevin Smith (yes, Clerks’ Kevin Smith) and his team perform with Netflix’s new Masters of the Universe is this: the stakes feel real. Well, “real” for a certain value of “real”. Ye...

Review: Old (2021)

Travis Johnson

26/07/2021

I’m kind of enjoying this third act of once-vaunted genre auteur M. Night Shyamalan’s career. Having made his bones with The Sixth Sense back in ’99 he had had a run of successful high concept thr...

G.I. Joe creator talks Snake Eyes: “Even the kid that went out for coffee turned it down!”

Travis Johnson

26/07/2021

Often the greatest creations of our time come from the most humble of beginnings, which, as Larry Hama puts it, can be partially accredited to the assertion that “the best way to be creative is to be working o...

This and That: An Evening with the Smooth Assassins of La Femme Nikita’ and Leon: The Professional

Travis Johnson

26/07/2021

Can a professional assassin have a personal life? Can they ever leave the killing behind, or does the only exit lead directly to an anonymous grave? It’s a theme that French action auteur Luc Besson has return...

Hemingway and the Myth of the Self-Destructive Genius

Travis Johnson

26/07/2021

“Well, he had his demons,” we say when we get news of another brilliant artist gone to their grave, if not directly by their own hand, then by bad habits so thoroughly indulged that they might as well have. ...

Review: Gunpowder Milkshake (2021)

Travis Johnson

19/07/2021

We are very much living in a post-Wick world. Gunpowder Milkshake is not the first film to try and borrow some of the cultural and aesthetic energy from the 2014 action gamechanger from Chad Sta...

Monkey is Still Magic, but a Little Bit Problematic

Travis Johnson

13/07/2021

If you were a kid in Australia any time from the late ‘70s to the mid-’90s or thereabouts, you almost certainly saw Monkey. Originally broadcast on Japan’s Nippon TV from 1978 to 1980, Saiyūki, as it w...

20 Years on, ‘A Knight’s Tale’ is Both a Rousing Spectacle and a Strange Elegy

They Thought it was Real: Mystery Series Limetown Blurs Reality and Fiction – but it’s Not the First

This and That: An Evening with the Smooth Assassins of La Femme Nikita’ and Leon: The Professional

Hemingway and the Myth of the Self-Destructive Genius

Monkey is Still Magic, but a Little Bit Problematic

Maori actor Cliff Curtis is the Beating Heart of Fear the Walking Dead

The Good Fight Season 5 Introduces the Magic of Mandy Patinkin

The Kaiser of Northbridge

Richard Donner, father of the modern superhero film

The Periodic Table of Awesome – Friday Fast and Furious Fun Times

I Lived in a Murder House

You may live in Australia, but you’ve never been to Straya

VHS Tracking #13 is Out!

Cyberpunk Cinema: An Online Panel (Updated!)

INTERVIEW: DAVID LANG Song Of Youth

G.I. Joe creator talks Snake Eyes: “Even the kid that went out for coffee turned it down!”

Noah Hutton Talks Lapsis, the Gig Economy and Blue-Collar Sci-Fi

Jeremy Saulnier: Chilling in the Green Room

Interview: Anthony O’Connor on Straya

Interview: Bill Burr talks Star Wars, Staten Island and his Aussie Exclusive Stand-Up Show

Interview: Director Corin Hardy talks Gangs of London

REVIEW: MISTRESS AMERICA American Woman

Review: Malcolm and Marie (2021)

Review: Sex/Life (2021)

Review: Masters of the Universe: Revelation (2021)

Review: Old (2021)

Review: Gunpowder Milkshake (2021)

Review: Black Widow (2021)

They Thought it was Real: Mystery Series Limetown Blurs Reality and Fiction – but it’s Not the First

Review: Malcolm and Marie (2021)

Review: Sex/Life (2021)

Review: Masters of the Universe: Revelation (2021)

Review: Old (2021)

G.I. Joe creator talks Snake Eyes: “Even the kid that went out for coffee turned it down!”

This and That: An Evening with the Smooth Assassins of La Femme Nikita’ and Leon: The Professional

Hemingway and the Myth of the Self-Destructive Genius

Review: Gunpowder Milkshake (2021)

Monkey is Still Magic, but a Little Bit Problematic

Author Travis Johnson