Reviews / 28.03.2024

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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Reviews / 27.02.2024

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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Awards Season, Reviews / 22.02.2024

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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Reviews / 15.01.2024

Another year of cinema comes to a close and it was a year dominated by the most unexpected double-bill the world of cinema has ever seen. What grew from a quirky viral trend known as "Barbenheimer" ultimately became the biggest box office success story of the year with Barbie and Oppenheimer grossing $1.4 billion and $952 million worldwide, respectively. Naturally, not all cinemagoers indulged in the back-to-back pairing of two wildly different films. But the publicity undoubtedly helped the latter become the highest-grossing biopic of all time and...

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Awards Season, Reviews / 18.11.2023

As their expansive year-long Disney 100 celebration finally begins to wind down, Walt Disney Animation Studios is set to deliver their 62nd feature-length animated feature almost nine decades after Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs began one of the most enduring legacies in the history of cinema. Standing as a loving tribute to everything that makes Disney animation so uniquely magical, Wish is a beautiful gem. A wondrous throwback to classic animated musicals of the past, this is easily the best family film of the season. Through the use of that...

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Awards Season, Reviews / 16.11.2023

Not to name names, but the pressure to deliver an equally impressive sophomore film after an acclaimed directorial debut normally cripples most filmmakers. After Emerald Fennell burst onto the scene in 2020 with the breathtaking Promising Young Woman and waltzed away with a richly deserved Oscar for Best Original Screenplay, all eyes turned to what the writer/director would serve up next. With the deliciously twisted, wildly provocative, and gloriously diabolical. Saltburn, Fennell bucks the trend to offer something as equally stunning and thought-provoking as her first work. Refreshing, naughty,...

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Reviews / 11.11.2023

Despite only four years passing since her first big-screen adventure and her presence in the behemoths that were Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame, it somehow feels like an eternity since we last saw Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel. Perhaps that's a testament to just how much Marvel Studios content we've consumed in that time. After battling against online trolls and "review bombing," 2019's Captain Marvel stormed to $1.1 billion at the worldwide box office and it seemed a new leader of the MCU had emerged. Rather than immediately throwing...

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Awards Season, Reviews / 22.10.2023

We are forever blessed that Martin Scorsese is still cranking out a new film every three or four years to remind us why he is a true auteur director. But to craft something at the age of 80 that stands as one of his greatest works to date is rather astonishing. Given his stunning back catalogue, that's a big call to make. Yet, it's entirely apt of a masterpiece so breathtakingly crafted as Killers of the Flower Moon; a perfectly paced epic that's everything cinema should be. Ambitious...

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Reviews / 19.09.2023

A long overdue biopic finally arrives in the form of Rustin, the story of the brilliant and often overlooked architect of the 1963 March on Washington. The film aims to shed light on Rustin's significant contributions to the Civil Rights Movement while exploring his complex identity as a Black gay man in mid-20th century America. While the film has its flaws, Colman Domingo’s powerhouse performance as the titular figure stands out as the film’s most compelling aspect and one destined for an Oscar nomination. Colman Domingo’s portrayal of Bayard...

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Reviews / 18.09.2023

In one of the most impressive directorial debuts in recent memory, Cord Jefferson delivers a wickedly sharp and bitingly hilarious satire in American Fiction that masterfully tackles issues of race, identity, and cultural commodification. With stellar performances, smart writing, and Jefferson’s confident direction, American Fiction emerges as a significant and timely work that challenges audiences to reflect on the complexities of representation and authenticity in American culture. And it could just be a major player come awards season. The film centres on Thelonious “Monk” Ellison (a brilliant Jeffrey Wright),...

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