Review: Freaky (2020)
Christopher Landon’s schtick, if that word isn’t too unkind, seems to be taking well-worn sci-fi/fantasy tropes and parsing them through a horror lens. He did it with the hugely enjoyable Happy Death Day,...
Review: Gangs of London (2020)
After Irish mob boss Finn Wallace (Colm Meaney) is murdered, the London criminal demimonde is thrown into chaos. While Finn’s brash son Sean (Joe Cole) tries to take over the reins of his father’s operation, t...
Review: Brazen Hussies (2020)
If we don’t keep stories of struggle alive, they tend to be robbed of their power. We look at the past through the lens of the present and so when we reflect on the (ongoing, let’s be clear) battle for equalit...
Review: Rams (2020)
When the Icelandic film Rams, from director Grímur Hákonarson, arrived in cinemas back in 2015, it did respectably on the arthouse and festival circuit in Australia, and that was about that. After all, a ...
Review: Fatman (2020)
Look, some concepts are just so wild that you have to take a look just to convince yourself that it’s real. Omit a few key details and Fatman, the latest feature from filmmaking siblings Eshom and Ian ...
Review: Firestarter – The Story of Bangarra (2020)
Art and politics are irrevocably melded in Firestarter – The Story of Bangarra. For the most part, the film is celebratory, tracing the Bangarra Dance Theatre’s trajectory from its founding back in 1989 as an ...
Review: White Riot (2019)
London, 1976: The Queen’s Silver Jubilee is nigh, but the country is in the grips of a massive economic depression. The social fallout bifurcates: on the one hand, the alienated urban angst of the punk scene; ...
Review: High Ground (2020)
The Norther Territory, 1931: 12 years after participating in a brutal massacre that all but wiped out a Yolngu family group, ex-soldier Travis (Simon Baker) is given an ultimatum by his former commanding offic...
Review: 2067 (2020)
In the eponymous year 2067 ecological catastrophe has wiped out all plant life and the remnants of humanity eke out a living in vast underground cities, sucking on bottled artificial air. This situation is obv...
Review: Dirt Music (2020)
Tim Winton is hard to adapt for the screen. Do it right, as in Simon Baker’s 2017 feature directing debut, Breath, and you can wind up with something quite special, a thoughtful meditation on adolescence and l...