Review: Father Stu (2022)
Mark Wahlberg is the titular Stuart Long, the real-life figure whose path took him from amateur boxing to a misjudged stab at making it as an actor in Hollywood before a post-motorcycle accident religious conv...
As Bruce Willis Retires, We Look Back At 1991’s The Last Boy Scout
Bruce Willis has announced his retirement, the star’s family confirming what had been long rumoured: he was suffering from a degenerative condition (aphasia, as it turned out) that was robbing him of his abili...
Review: Ambulance (2022)
Ex-marine Will Sharp (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) needs money for his wife Amy’s (Moses Ingram) medical expenses, having been hung out to dry by Veteran Affairs. Luckily, his brother Danny (Jake Gyllenhaal) is a ca...
Review: Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness (2022)
Back from the dead, having helped save half the universe from Thanos and no longer the Sorcerer Supreme (Wong got the gig after 50% of all life got dusted in the climax of Infinity War), surgeon-turned-mystic ...
Retrospective: Conan The Barbarian Is Still Fantastically Barbaric At Age 40
Right now Alexander Skarsgård is on a roaring rampage of revenge as Amleth in Robert Eggers’ The Northman, carving his way through Dark Ages Iceland to wreak terrible vengeance on the man who killed his f...
Review: The Adam Project (2022)
How do you even criticize something that left no mark on your psyche whatsoever? That’s the problem I encounter when coming at The Adam Project, the second collaboration between actor Ryan Reynolds and di...
Review: X (2022)
In a deliberate echo of Tobe Hooper’s The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974), horror specialist Ti West, The Innkeepers (2011), offers us this set up: it’s 1979, and a vanful of attractive you...
What to Watch at ScreenWave 2022
ScreenWave International Film Festival is back for 2022! Scenic Coffs Harbour plays host to one of the best regional film festivals (actually, that "regional" qualifier seems redundant) from Thursday, 21st Apr...
Review: Fresh (2022)
We need to get into spoiler territory pretty quickly to talk about Fresh in any meaningful way, so if you’re particularly sensitive to that kind of thing, here’s the scoop: if you want to see a prett...
Review: Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022)
There is very little blood in Tobe Hooper’s 1974 horror classic, The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. We used to say “surprisingly little,” but every horror fan worth their salt knows that the movie that gave us...