Review: Black Snow (2022)
Outback noir is the Australian prestige TV genre du jour right now, the fecund subgenre giving us the likes of Mystery Road: Origin, Savage River, True Colours and Troppo all in t...
Review: Heels (2021)
It’s kind of amazing we haven’t had more behind-the-ring professional wrestling dramas before now—the milieu seems ripe for it. Wrestling combines showbiz and sports in a way few other enterprises do. You’ve g...
Review: Hacks (2021)
The generation gap has been mined for laughs—often poorly—since Adam couldn’t understand why Caine went vegetarian. There’s a cranky, common-sense elder who isn’t quite as in touch as they should be, a fluster...
The 25 Best Australian Movies on Stan
Precisely what it says on the tin. Flicks.com.au had me cast a critical eye over Stan's Australian offerings and pick the best of the bunch, which was a tough gig, let me tell you. Click on through for the lis...
The TV Shows Everybody was Talking About in 2020
Look, we’ve already established that we all watched a heck of a lot of Netflix movies this year but, all things being equal, we probably watched more TV, yeah? If there was ever a time to indulge our basest bi...
Review: Your Honor (2020)
New Orleans judge Michael Desiato (Bryan Cranston) finds his respect for the law tested to destruction when his teenage son Adam (Hunter Doohan) accidentally runs over and kills another young man, Rocco Baxter...
I Binged All the American Ninja Movies Because My Editor is a Sadistic Monster
Nostalgia can be a dangerous thing. I know this because nostalgia was the emotion aroused when I saw American Ninja and its first three sequels on a list of upcoming Stan titles, and it was nostalgia that i...
Director Natalie Erika James on Unearthing Relic
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...
6 Reasons to Watch Yellowstone, Kevin Costner’s Wildly Popular Cowboy Drama
A new season of Yellowstone is upon us, the third season now streaming on Stan—with new instalments dropping weekly. This makes me very happy, because Tyler Sheridan’s soapy, occasionally ropy neo-western is ex...