Reviews / 21.04.2023

While Sam Raimi's 1981 cult classic The Evil Dead may not have been the first horror film to feature the now infamous "cabin in the woods" trope, it popularised it to the point where its influence on the horror genre is immeasurable. Raimi's three Evil Dead films ingeniously mixed terror with humour to create a new style of horror we're still seeing replicated today. After a valiant effort to reboot the Evil Dead franchise in 2013 and possibly spurned by the success of the recent Scream refresh, it's time...

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Reviews / 05.04.2023

Given the unwavering popularity of the Super Mario brand since its humble beginnings in 1985, it's rather staggering it's taken almost four decades for a big-screen animated adaptation. Then again, Nintendo likely suffered from PTSD after the disastrous 1993 live-action incarnation. They've rightly protected their baby for long enough and have now finally handed the reins (and the rights) over to those Minions-loving magicians at Illumination. The resulting The Super Mario Bros. Movie is a candy-coloured delight that will surely satisfy even the most ardent of Mario fans. While its...

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Reviews / 04.04.2023

The best sports movies are the ones that aren't really about sports at all. Moneyball wasn't inherently a baseball film, nor was King Richard truly about tennis. Rocky was more than just a boxing flick and Remember the Titans was never just about gridiron. Rather, these films succeeded by finding fascinating character-driven stories that just so happen to take place within the world of sport. Such is the case with the wildly entertaining Air; a film about basketball shoes that isn't really about basketball or shoes. In a roaring return to...

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Reviews / 27.03.2023

In recent years, it's been beyond pleasing to see queer cinema finally move away from the exhaustingly tiresome "Bury Your Gays" trope. Films like Bros, Fire Island, Happiest Season, and The Prom have proven gay love stories no longer need to drown in misery or have someone tragically die to make an impact. What a concept, huh? But a new sub-genre has emerged centred on the painfully familiar concept of "queer yearning" seen in films like Call Me by Your Name, Moonlight, and Carol. Australia adds its own inclusion to this emerging cinematic category with...

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Reviews / 18.03.2023

Full disclosure; I know absolutely nothing about the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. I've picked up bits and pieces here and there from TV shows like Strangers Things and The Big Bang Theory. I appreciate its staggeringly enduring popularity for almost 50 years now. And I always admire the passion of a loyal fanbase. But Hollywood attempted a big-screen DnD adaptation 23 years ago. It was a spectacular failure. The thought of a reboot wasn't exactly filling me with joy, but, lord, was I wrong. Standing as the first big surprise of...

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Reviews / 10.03.2023

Those Radio Silence boys have done it again. After breathing new life into the seemingly deceased corpse of Ghostface with 2022's surprisingly great "requel" Scream, directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillet have delivered an equally satisfying and tantalisingly terrifying sequel. With a fresh new location, a bigger body count, immensely tense set pieces, and more brutal death scenes, Scream VI is deliriously entertaining stuff. You never expect the sixth film in a franchise to be one of its best. And, yet, here we are. Picking up 12 months after siblings Sam...

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Reviews / 15.02.2023

Kudos to Marvel Studios for sticking by its heroes. When the MCU began over a decade ago, no one ever really expected the tiny titular hero Ant-Man would be given his own stand-alone film, let alone two of them. With Captain America and Iron Man now fading further in the distance and the first two Ant-Man movies earning a combined total of $1 billion at the worldwide box office, we've arrived at the third outing of nobody's favourite Avenger. While there's a kooky, psychedelic feel to Ant-Man and the Wasp:...

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Opinion, Reviews / 29.01.2023

Another year of cinema comes to a close. It was the year that life started to seem relatively normal again. No lockdowns, cinema closures, or release date delays. Film festivals were held in-person for the first time in two years. Blockbusters started making hundreds of millions of dollars again. Three of them cracked a billion bucks. Inexplicably one of them was Jurassic World: Dominion; a film I haven't heard a soul mention since it was released in June. Until I looked back on the yearly box office numbers,...

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Awards Season, Reviews / 20.01.2023

After delivering three films in a row that all garnered endless praise and awards season success, it's clear director Damien Chazelle has reached the point in his career where he's being given carte blanche to make whatever the hell he wants. And rightly so. But that freedom proves to be both a blessing and a curse with his latest film Babylon; an overstuffed, 3-hour-plus epic that's equally dazzling, dizzying, disgusting, and discombobulating. Whether Chazelle falls under the weight of his own excess and ambition will be up for you...

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Reviews / 07.01.2023

At this point in his career, it's rather pointless to criticise Jason Statham for essentially playing the same hardboiled, gruff role in every single one of his films. He's an action star following the same path as actors like Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, and Jean-Claude Van Damme. He knows his brand and what he brings to the table. He plays it well and his fans eat it up. Statham delivers another serving of his dry charm in Guy Ritchie's Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre; a suave, stylish old-school action...

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