Featured, 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...

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...

Featured, 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...

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...

Awards Season, Featured, 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,...

Awards Season, Featured, 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...

Awards Season, Reviews / 16.09.2023

Given we were all mostly staying home in early 2021 amidst pandemic paranoia, you likely heard something about the shocking rapid increase in the stock price of struggling American video game retailer GameStop. Maybe you were even intrigued enough to pay attention to how it was fueled by a bunch of Reddit users who blindsided seasoned Wall Street professionals and got rich in the process. Maybe you were even one of them. Barely two years later and it's already time for a Hollywood adaptation of this bizarre true story....

Reviews / 04.08.2023

If you're like me, you probably weren't aware that 2018's The Meg somehow managed to swim away with $530 million at the worldwide box office; a number barely a handful of titles manage to achieve in the post-COVID era. For a setup that held such great promise, many felt let down by the film's bizarrely serious tone and lack of bloody mayhem. Now the inevitable sequel has arrived, and, frustratingly, it's a follow-up that once again fails to take advantage of its outlandish premise. Another strangely bloodless affair that's beset...

Reviews / 22.07.2023

When a film's marketing features a tagline as powerful as "The world forever changes," you've got to have the goods to back up just why the focus of this piece of cinema is so monumentally historic. Then again, the release of a new film from auteur filmmaker Christopher Nolan is always fairly monumental in itself. For the last decade, Nolan has been intent on producing epics of sound and sight purposely designed for the largest cinemas possible. And now he's tackling a moment in history that truly did change...

Reviews / 19.07.2023

For over six decades, one plastic doll has endured against all odds. From controversies and parodies to the rise of feminism and the women's liberation movement, Barbara Millicent Roberts has survived it all. By constantly reinventing herself and evolving with the times, Barbie (or, more accurately, the gurus at Mattel Inc.) has always had a knack for finding new ways to tap into the cultural zeitgeist of each era. The time has finally arrived for her big screen debut. The result is one of the most spectacularly enjoyable...

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