Reviews / 02.09.2020

Independent cinema loves a good coming-of-age story. From Ghost World to Rushmore, indie filmmakers consistently highlight the complicated journeys of the young, quirky oddballs mainstream cinema often ignores. Indie films provide "non-conformists" their chance to shine and offer a different take on a genre often fraught with tired, nauseating clichés. Such is the case with writer/director Adam Carter Rehmeier's terrifically enjoyable and unexpectedly heartwarming black comedy Dinner in America, which is easily one of my favourite films of the year thus far. With a streak of anarchy running throughout...

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Reviews / 01.09.2020

From The Evil Dead to Cabin Fever, the idea of setting a horror film in a creepy cabin in the woods is nothing new. It's practically a sub-genre all of its own, particularly after Drew Goddard and Joss Whedon sharply skewered the conceit with the meta-aware genius that was 2011's Cabin in the Woods. By virtue of unfortunate timing, writer/director Amelia Moses' Bleed With Me stands as the third horror film of 2020 to take place within the claustrophobic confines of a spooky, isolated cabin. Thankfully, Moses delivers...

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Reviews / 30.08.2020

Ask and you shall receive. For almost three decades, passionate fans of lovable time-travelling jugheads William S. Preston Esq. and Theodore Logan have been crying out for a third adventure of the cinematic duo better known as Bill and Ted. With rumblings of a third film beginning all the way back in 2010, it's been an exhausting wait to finally see Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter reprise their iconic roles. In Bill & Ted Face the Music, Reeves and Winter finally reunite to deliver precisely the dose of silliness...

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Reviews / 28.08.2020

Nobody likes a trip to the hospital, especially during a crippling pandemic. It's a setting the horror movie genre has often tapped for all sorts of terrifying mayhem. However, it's rare to find a black comedy set within the walls of an infirmary, given the difficulties of making light of a place of such misery. A sardonically dark comedy full of bloody violence and twisted humour, 12 Hour Shift has all the makings of something wickedly fun. If only the humour landed as well as the gallons of...

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Reviews / 27.08.2020

In another addition to the film industry's current obsession with music biopics (Judy, Rocketman, Bohemian Rhapsody, and Straight Outta Compton, plus Aretha to come later this year), it's time to take a trip back to the 1970s and the song that became the unofficial anthem of the women's liberation movement. For the baby boomer generation, Helen Reddy was a feminist icon and the song forever synonymous with her name stood as the battle cry for females all over the globe. With women's rights staggeringly still under attack five decades...

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Reviews / 26.08.2020

For kids of the 1980s and 90s, we all likely have stories of taking a risky spin on wildly unsafe theme park rides and carnival attractions that would never exist in the 21st century. As a youngster, I came close to dying on one myself. At a local "action park" that shall remain unnamed, I was coerced by my friends into jumping off a 20-foot tall attraction known as "The Rock," which stood atop a deep and dark pool of water, bearing a sign stating this thrill-ride was...

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Awards Season, Reviews / 22.08.2020

There are few directors who love to craft a good mindfuck quite like Christopher Nolan. Whether it's the multiple timelines of Dunkirk, the interdimensional wormholes of Interstellar, or practically every frame of Memento, Nolan has always had a knack for testing an audience's patience with cinematic confusion that consistently flirts on frustration. After numerous coronavirus-induced delays and a staggered worldwide release schedule that's rather brutal for anyone outside of Australia, Nolan's latest epic is finally here, and it's every bit as baffling as you're expecting. After the cinema closures...

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Reviews / 20.08.2020

One of the many joys of being a writer in the 21st century is unconsciously opening yourself up to the white-hot vitriol fired off by nasty keyboard warriors around the globe. Amongst the open forums of social media platforms like Twitter and Facebook, there will always be those looking to victimise, bully, and harass anyone with an opinion slightly different from their own. By daring to share your voice in the online world, we inherently accept hatred is all but a predestined certainty. The relative anonymity of the internet...

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Reviews / 19.08.2020

With everything that's happened in 2020, you've likely forgotten the year in film started with the colossal $175 million flop that was Dolittle. Much to no one's shock, it continued a string of recent talking CGI animal films (Cats, The Lion King) that focused too heavily on crafting said digital creations and forgot they needed a heart to land any shred of resonance with an audience. Trepidation abounds when approaching another CGI creature feature this week. After the pandemic-induced cinema shutdown forced Disney to pull their adaptation of beloved...

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Reviews / 18.08.2020

Ever since the launch of gay "dating" app Grindr in 2009, sex has become increasingly more transactional in the gay community. With roughly 30 million users (of which almost 4 million are classified as daily users) around the globe, it's never been quicker and easier for gay men to find someone nearby for a randy NSA (no-strings-attached) rendezvous. Whether this is a blessing or a curse for the gay community likely depends on your views of casual sex. For those uninitiated with this world, something like Samuel Van Grinsven's...

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