Travis Johnson, Author at Celluloid & whiskey

Like The X-Files? You’ll love Kolchak: The Night Stalker

August 14, 2020

These days you can’t swing a dead (or cursed, or possessed…) cat without hitting yet another series about some shady gumshoe type getting mixed up in supernatural shenanigans on the reg. There’s always someone...

Creature feature Black Water: Abyss is an undemanding dose of light horror

Travis Johnson

August 14, 2020

Thirteen years on from Andrew Traucki’s 2007 killer croc flick Black Water comes this spiritual sequel, which again puts a handful of handsome young people on the menu of a voracious reptile. This ti...

Dvorit Shargal: Diving into ‘The Submarine Case’

Travis Johnson

August 1, 2020

In 2017, Swedish journalist Kim Wall disappeared while onboard the UC3 Nautilus, the homemade submarine belonging to Danish entrepreneur Peter Madsen. The story behind her vanishing turned out to be one...

How to Go to the Movies in a Pandemic

Travis Johnson

July 29, 2020

The last film I saw in the cinema was a press screening of historical drama The Current War on Monday, March 9. Then the hammer came down, press screenings started falling off the calendar, studios b...

MDFF Review: Wongar

Travis Johnson

July 24, 2020

Wongar is available to stream on demand as part of the 2020 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. This observational documentary is a look into the life of the titular Serbian-Australian writer. Born Sreten ...

MDFF Review: Batman and Me

Travis Johnson

July 24, 2020

Batman and Me is screening as part of the 2020 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. If you spend any time in nerdy circles you get exposed to plenty of obsessive collectors. I know guys who have sunk unholy...

MDFF Review: Strangers to the World

Travis Johnson

July 24, 2020

Strangers to the World is screening as part of the 2020 Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. The big problem that Strangers to the World faces is that it’s coming to us after the release of A Hidden Life la...

The King of Staten Island (2020)

Travis Johnson

July 22, 2020

When you use that title structure, you’re kind of making a promise to your audience, whether they’re conscious of it or not. The obvious allusion is to 1972’s The King of Marvin Gardens, Bob Rafelson’s down...

Director Natalie Erika James on Unearthing Relic

Travis Johnson

July 21, 2020

Currently streaming on Stan, the new horror movie Relic sees a woman (Emily Mortimer) and her adult daughter (Bella Heathcote) contend with the family matriarch’s (Robyn Neville) worsening dementia, only for e...

Why Perry Mason is the Hard-Boiled Hero Our Times Need

Travis Johnson

July 21, 2020

Crusading lawyer Perry Mason has been around for simply yonks. First conceived by American lawyer and crime author Erle Stanley Gardner back in 1933, the big-brained sleuth investigated and argued his way t...

TRAILER: THE LAST STAND

Like The X-Files? You’ll love Kolchak: The Night Stalker

How to Go to the Movies in a Pandemic

Why Perry Mason is the Hard-Boiled Hero Our Times Need

When You’re a Scuba-Diving Film Critic, Cousteau Biopic ‘The Odyssey’ is Manna from Heaven

This week I took a guest spot on All the President’s Minutes

Five of the Best From Revelation Perth International Film Festival 2020

INTERVIEW: Taika Waititi on Hunt For The Wilderpeople

Dvorit Shargal: Diving into ‘The Submarine Case’

Director Natalie Erika James on Unearthing Relic

Daniel Henshall: Ghost in the Shell

INTERVIEW: KURT RUSSELL The Hateful Eight

INTERVIEW: DAVID LANG Song Of Youth

Interview: Wes Craven

REVIEW: THE RELIC Monster Mash

Creature feature Black Water: Abyss is an undemanding dose of light horror

MDFF Review: Wongar

MDFF Review: Batman and Me

MDFF Review: Strangers to the World

The King of Staten Island (2020)

Paul Hogan Returns in The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee, but Can He Pull it Off?

Like The X-Files? You’ll love Kolchak: The Night Stalker

Creature feature Black Water: Abyss is an undemanding dose of light horror

Dvorit Shargal: Diving into ‘The Submarine Case’

How to Go to the Movies in a Pandemic

MDFF Review: Wongar

MDFF Review: Batman and Me

MDFF Review: Strangers to the World

The King of Staten Island (2020)

Director Natalie Erika James on Unearthing Relic

Why Perry Mason is the Hard-Boiled Hero Our Times Need

Author Travis Johnson