09 May

When 20th Century Fox rebooted its seemingly dormant Planet of the Apes franchise in 2011, few expected Rise of the Planet of the Apes to launch three films that not only collectively earned $1.6 billion worldwide but also become one of the best trilogies in cinema history. You can baulk at that all you like, but it deserves to (and, for some odd reason, rarely does) stand alongside trilogies like The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, Toy Story, and The Dark Knight. Seven years after we said farewell to Caesar, those damn...

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20 Apr

In 2023, Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt were supporting players in two of the biggest films of the year that combined to become the weirdest double bill in cinema history. Gosling and Blunt stole focus as the unappreciated partners of the titular characters in Barbie and Oppenheimer and both rightly waltzed away with Oscar nominations. Now they're back in the lead in a film steadfastly determined to make blockbusters fun again. Remember those days? Remember fun?! A ridiculously entertaining, genuinely funny, and charmingly romantic crowd-pleaser, The Fall Guy soars on...

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17 Apr

Do you like tennis? If your answer is no, the good news is Luca Guadagnino's Challengers is still very likely to be right up your alley. Or in your court. Or some other tennis pun. Much like King Richard wasn't inherently a "tennis film," this very stylish, occasionally trashy, palpably sexy, and unashamedly horny good time is more of a tantalisingly soapy character study than an introspection on the ins and outs of jeu de paume. Ménage à trois is a far more appropriate French term to be...

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12 Apr

Marketing films is a tricky business. Reveal too much and you risk audiences staying home after feeling like they've seen the entire movie in its trailer. Reveal too little and you might fail to whet the appetite of potential viewers entirely. Then there's something like Civil War; a film with trailers that suggest a highly political, super divisive, and action-packed epic that's really just a thinly veiled allegory/warning for America's impending future. In reality, this film is somehow simultaneously all these things and none of them. Whether that makes...

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06 Apr

Can we just take a moment to appreciate the rise of Dev Patel from that lanky, dorky kid in Slumdog Millionaire and TV's Skins to the captivating, Oscar-nominated (and BAFTA-winning) leading man he is today? Patel takes another big step forward in his impressive career with his dazzling directorial debut, Monkey Man; a slick, stylish, entertaining, and brutally violent revenge thriller that announces Patel as both a bonafide action star and a remarkably talented director. Is there anything this guy can't do? Inspired by the Hindu legend of Hanuman, Monkey Man...

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04 Apr

From Annabelle to Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Insidious to The Exorcist, horror prequels are generally what occurs when studios run out of ideas for sequels and instead serve up an origin story no one really asked for. It's why one approaches something like The First Omen with immense trepidation and dreadfully low expectations. Colour me wrong. Standing as one of the first big surprises of 2024 and that rare kind of horror prequel that completely justifies its existence, this unsettling, atmospheric, and beautifully crafted demonic thriller is actually pretty damn good. Set...

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03 Apr

Australian horror has experienced quite a renaissance in the last decade. From Talk to Me and The Babadook to You'll Never Find Me and Sissy (plus low-budget guilty pleasures like Wyrmwood and 100 Bloody Acres), Aussie filmmakers are consistently proving they can cook up terrors with the best of them. Tackling two well-worn sub-genres of horror that generally feel quite stale, brothers Colin Cairnes and Cameron Cairnes breathe new life into the tropes of demonic possession and found footage films with the terrifically unnerving and deliriously entertaining Late Night with the Devil. A simple yet...

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28 Mar

After ten years, four films, and one television series of Legendary Pictures' MonsterVerse franchise, we're back for another serving of Titan chaos. Say what you will about these films, but they all know exactly what they are and wisely refuse to apologise for delivering everything audiences want and expect. Whether the premise of watching several gigantic animals beat the crap out of each other while levelling numerous buildings is growing thin by now is entirely up to you to decide. For this film critic, it's the kind of...

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27 Feb

Adapting Frank Herbert's seminal classic sci-fi novel Dune into a feature film was a lifelong dream of director Denis Villeneuve. After years in development hell and pesky pandemic delays, the filmmaker finally received his wish in 2021. The result was a film that broke the covid box office curse and netted $450 million worldwide and Oscars for pretty much every technical artisan involved in the film bar Villeneuve, who staggeringly wasn't even nominated. Regardless, a sequel was all but assured and Villeneueve was the man to make it happen. As someone...

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22 Feb

For the second year, you can catch this year's Academy Award nominees for Best Animated Short Film and Best Live Action Short Film on the big screen at select Australian cinemas. For full location details and screening dates, click here. Here are my reviews of this year's contenders. BEST ANIMATED SHORT FILM Letter to a Pig An elderly Jewish man recounts his experiences during the Holocaust to a classroom of seemingly uninterested high school students. As he recalls his tale of surviving the Nazis by hiding in a filthy barn filled...

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