September 18, 2023 |
Oppenheimer
I was reminded too much of House of Cards while I watched this movie, and not in a good way. Because … |
September 18, 2023 |
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
I was surprised to learn a few weeks after this movie came out that it, like Indiana Jones and the D … |
September 5, 2023 |
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
After looking so old, tired and disinterested in being there during Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of … |
September 5, 2023 |
Thirteen Lives
I followed the overview of the trapped soccer team in the flooded cave in Thailand as it happened li … |
September 5, 2023 |
Catherine Called Birdy
Even though it’s attributable more to the novel it’s based on, this movie scores points … |
August 30, 2023 |
Transformers: Rise of the Beasts
What do you do when you have a spare $200m and Hasbro says they’ll market the sh#t out of a ne … |
August 30, 2023 |
Slumber Party Massacre
There’s a small behind the scenes detail about this movie that’s hard to ignore. Feminis … |
August 30, 2023 |
The Celluloid Bordello
It’s a very worthy conversation to have but one that could only come out of the post MeToo mov … |
August 23, 2023 |
Skyfire
The very model of a Chinese effort to emulate the glitz and success it covets jealously about Hollyw … |
August 23, 2023 |
Red Rocket
It was more a case of knowing I should watch this film more so than really wanting to. I saw the art … |
August 23, 2023 |
The Thing From Another World
It had never occurred to me to watch the movie John Carpenter’s immortal 1982 sci-fi horror Th … |
August 20, 2023 |
Monstrous
I wanted to see this movie because I’m always interested in how movies treat pop culture mytho … |
August 20, 2023 |
Venus: Let’s Talk About Sex
There was no chance I wouldn’t watch this documentary, being as it was about young women talki … |
August 20, 2023 |
Modern Times
One of Chaplin’s classics and his ostensible comment on the grinding conformity and lack of hu … |
August 14, 2023 |
Clerks III
I’m not sure if Kevin Smith’s movies have devolved in quality or if it’s just the … |
August 14, 2023 |
X
A fantasy movie swept the Oscars when Lord of the Rings: Return of the King got every award there wa … |
August 14, 2023 |
Lady Chatterly’s Lover
I love the story of Lady Chatterley’s Lover. After reading the book years ago, seeing director … |
August 13, 2023 |
Money Shot: The Pornhub Story
You’d think a documentary about PornHub was destined to be one of two things; a fawning PR tra … |
August 13, 2023 |
I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
This is one I’ve always been aware of but not terribly interested in seeing until Tarantino ta … |
August 13, 2023 |
Heaven’s Gate
There was only one reason for me to watch this film – especially because I don’t like Wester … |
August 7, 2023 |
Licorice Pizza
Despite his prestige as a director, Paul Thomas Anderson’s movies are an acquired taste, as th … |
August 7, 2023 |
The Whale
Back in the mid 1990s there was a movie called Heavy, starring Pruitt Taylor Vince as an overweight … |
August 7, 2023 |
Thirst
This film is from a particular period when the Ozploitation movement was winding down/gearing up. Yo … |
August 6, 2023 |
All Quiet on the Western Front
I’m a bit embarrassed to say I had no idea this was a novel back in the interwar years, and th … |
August 6, 2023 |
Belushi
I was never the biggest John Belushi fan – he was a little bit before my time, and I didn’t … |
August 6, 2023 |
Shoplifters
The theme, after it’s all over, is what constitutes family when survival is the order of the d … |
July 12, 2023 |
Blonde
This film reminded me a lot of Get On Up, the movie about James Brown’s life starring Chadwick … |
July 12, 2023 |
The Vast of Night
Comparisons to Donnie Darko are probably pretty inevitable, but they’re completely warranted a … |
July 12, 2023 |
Another Wolfcop
The plot is a cast off from a hundred other conspiracy thrillers. The local big business enterpreneu … |
July 7, 2023 |
Troll
Now this is what you do with Roar Uthaug. After he makes one of the best Hollywood disaster movies i … |
July 5, 2023 |
Prophecy
I remember seeing the cover of the VHS of this movie in video stores plenty of times as a kid, but b … |
July 5, 2023 |
The One I Love
After being interested in the premise I added this film to my list and had forgotten that premise co … |
July 5, 2023 |
Pig
Now the Cage-aissance is complete and Nicolas Cage is accepted as a talented star again after a few … |
June 22, 2023 |
Happy Go Lucky
Mike Leigh must have had a lollipop or a red cordial and seen Sally Hawkins in a ALDI catalogue or s … |
June 22, 2023 |
House Of Gucci
Every now and then Ridley Scott does this – leaving sci-fi or action to do a straight-down-the-lin … |
June 22, 2023 |
The Secrets
I’ve talked before about my love of gay female drama because they usually deal with someone wh … |
June 22, 2023 |
Vivarium
If you don’t catch the reference from the opening scene, you’ll feel like an idiot if yo … |
June 22, 2023 |
Entergalactic
Sometimes cinema is about stories, and sometimes it’s about the form. Usually I’m much m … |
June 22, 2023 |
The Banshees of Inisherin
I watched this film with something of a sense of duty because of all the awards plaudits, but I̵ … |
June 22, 2023 |
Titane
Very, very nouveau Francais stuff. As in, full of nudity, fairly sexual in nature and pretty nonsens … |
June 22, 2023 |
It’s Quieter in the Twilight
For anyone who thinks publicly funded space exploration looks the way it did when the Saturn V took … |
June 22, 2023 |
Last Night in Soho
The pre-release hype and the media narrative about this movie was all about what a loving throwback … |
June 22, 2023 |
The Stepfather
I’ve been watching the reboot series of The Twilight Zone they did in the late 80s for the pas … |
June 22, 2023 |
Beat Street
I was very surprised recently to learn that I’d never reviewed one of the most pivotal movies … |
June 22, 2023 |
Chappaquiddick
I was vageuly aware of this story, just one in dozens of tales of tragedy in the Kennedy clan, but d … |
June 6, 2023 |
The Father
This film quite rightly won plaudits for putting you as an audience member right inside the experien … |
June 6, 2023 |
The Super Mario Bros Movie
Pixar changed family entertainment back in its heyday, and while the studio was never the one to lea … |
June 6, 2023 |
Paprika
After watching this movie you’ll be convinced anime is the perfect medium in which to depict p … |
May 29, 2023 |
The Bubble
I saw the trailer for a movie in the fake franchise this film’s about, one of the Cliff Beasts … |
May 29, 2023 |
Rams
I was completely unprepared for what this movie turned out to be and completely taken in by it, perh … |
May 29, 2023 |
Cocaine Bear
This film has something in common with another one I watched recently, Cockneys vs Zombies. How? A m … |
May 29, 2023 |
Tetris
Might this be the movie I heard was in development a couple of years back based on the titular game? … |
May 18, 2023 |
The Batman
Recently I’ve been noticing a lot of films that prove the idea that if there’s a good st … |
May 18, 2023 |
Burden of Dreams
There were two reasons I wanted to watch this documentary. The first is because the making of the fi … |
May 18, 2023 |
Ambulance
Back when the original Transformers came out in 2007 I attended a press conference in Sydney where M … |
May 10, 2023 |
The Vigil
It’s an effective horror movie when you keep silently exhorting the protagonist to just leave … |
May 10, 2023 |
Promising Young Woman
A bunch of drunk dudes at a bar see a beautiful young woman sitting across from them – or trying t … |
May 10, 2023 |
Butt Boy
You’ve rarely if ever seen so many movie styles and stylistic motifs blended together with suc … |
May 8, 2023 |
Boar
Being as big a fan of Razorback as I am, watching this was a no brainer, and I like to think directo … |
April 30, 2023 |
Judy
While kids and teenagers are still lining up for superhero movies and sci-fi sequels, this is part o … |
April 26, 2023 |
Black Christmas
Along with a lot of the film movements from the 70s that were dismissed as trash at the time, slashe … |
April 23, 2023 |
The Apartment
No, it’s not the Billy Wilder romantic screwball comedy from the 60s, it’s a confusing F … |
April 17, 2023 |
Ganja and Hess
I saw Spike Lee’s remake of this film, Da Sweet Blood of Jesus, before this version, and I can … |
April 13, 2023 |
Cockneys vs Zombies
The only uncertain thing about this film is whether it takes the slightly one-joke premise too far o … |
April 11, 2023 |
65
It’s not that Adam Driver doesn’t seem interested in commercial fare (he was one of the … |
April 4, 2023 |
Prey
It doesn’t matter how lame a franchise is (like this one), how overdone a mythology is (like B … |
March 28, 2023 |
The Endless
I knew I’d seen the names of the guys behind this film before. They made the slightly oddball … |
March 26, 2023 |
The Getaway
There were a couple of moments early on in this movie where I wondered to myself if audiences back i … |
March 26, 2023 |
Emily the Criminal
There are issues movies and movies about plots, but sometimes the best movies are ones that not only … |
March 26, 2023 |
Eaten Alive
Not to be confused with Tobe Hooper’s shlocky follow up to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which … |
March 25, 2023 |
Mandibles
I’m not the most devoted fan of Quentin Dupieux’s movies, but I watched this one because … |
March 25, 2023 |
Finch
As soon as this film ended I realised that, like John Hillcoat’s 2009 adaptation of Cormac McC … |
March 25, 2023 |
Danger Close
On one hand it’s a very American style film. There’s a natural progression from a meet-t … |
March 21, 2023 |
Fatima
It’s a fictionalised account of a historical story with quite a strong theme straight from Hol … |
March 18, 2023 |
The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent
One of the most dangerous things you can try in comedy is stretch a single joke to the running time … |
March 18, 2023 |
The Adam Project
This movie feels like Shawn Levy and Ryan Reynolds had such a great time working together on Free Gu … |
March 15, 2023 |
The Peanut Butter Falcon
A young man with Downs Syndrome wants to escape from the care home he lives in, the only place the s … |
March 14, 2023 |
The Menu
I’m not sure how subtle or nuanced this film looked like from the poster and trailer, but it e … |
March 14, 2023 |
Linoleum
It’s a heartfelt but weird sci-fi dramedy that goes in some very unexpected directions, so the … |
March 8, 2023 |
Everything Everywhere All At Once
As I write this review, this movie is a steamroller. It’s done very well in theatres, had a ve … |
March 5, 2023 |
Shin Godzilla
I’m not the most knowledgeable Godzilla devotee but I’m pretty sure most of the classic … |
March 5, 2023 |
Eaten Alive
What Tobe Hooper did next. After the horror auteur helped blaze an entire new genre with The Texas C … |
March 1, 2023 |
Black Bear
Allison (Aubrey Plaza) arrives at the end of a long driveway deep in the woods in her Uber. Gabe (Ch … |
February 28, 2023 |
Alice
I think reactions to this movie – both yours and those of critics – says as much about your mora … |
February 22, 2023 |
The Worst Person in the World
It’s very real, but is it any good? The jury’s still out, but just a week or so after wa … |
February 20, 2023 |
Mystify: Michael Hutchence
I was a huge fan of INXS during their late 80s heyday and if you were too this is pretty essential v … |
February 16, 2023 |
Road to Bali
The only real reason I wanted to watch this film was to see if the way Hollywood portrayed not only … |
February 15, 2023 |
Wolfcop
Aiming straight for the old style exploitation market demographic but with a self-aware edge of come … |
February 12, 2023 |
Into Eternity: A Film for the Future
This documentary showcases a massive project called Onkalo to dispose of nuclear waste in Finland, a … |
February 8, 2023 |
Avatar: The Way of Water
The original Avatar hoodwinked us all. Like every other critic and casual reviewer I drew parallels … |
February 7, 2023 |
The Man Who Killed Don Quixote
I don’t know much about the Don Quixote mythology and I’m not the most obsessive fan of … |
February 2, 2023 |
Crack: Cocaine, Corruption & Conspiracy
It’s not just a documentary about how the titular drug became so entrenched, it’s an epi … |
January 31, 2023 |
Phase IV
If you watch this film hoping for an Empire of the Ants-level shlockfest you’ll be disappointe … |
January 28, 2023 |
It Comes at Night
Just this morning as I write this review, I was reading about M Night Shyamalan’s latest movie … |
January 27, 2023 |
Spencer
His films aren’t all the same exactly, but Pablo Larrain has a very distinctive aesthetic that … |
January 27, 2023 |
Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
I’m one of only five people alive who didn’t like Black Panther. However much people of … |
January 25, 2023 |
Red Notice
If you want any more indication that Netflix still has theatrical aims, look no further. Not just be … |
January 25, 2023 |
Being the Ricardos
It was because of the work of Aaron Sorkin much more than any nostalgia for the show that made me wa … |
January 24, 2023 |
Dementia 13
It’s easy to see why this appealed to a teenage horror movie fan in the 60s, although while I … |
January 24, 2023 |
Get On Up
I’ve never been a particular fan of James Brown’s, so I wasn’t sure what drew me t … |