Nicolas Cage: The Movie is here. That’s right, internet; you spoke, and the film Gods heard you. For this is not a film about a couple (Cage and Andrea Riseborough) and their quiet sojourn in […]
Author: Glen Falkenstein
Glen produces film, theatre and television reviews and commentary for a number of publications, covering festivals, interviews and events.
Glen lives in Sydney, Australia where he hosts ‘Film Fight Club’ (Wednesdays 7:30PM on 2SER 107.3) and enjoys making short films.
THE GREEN FOG
If you’re an Alfred Hitchcock fan, you’ve probably noticed that Vertigo has gone up in the public’s estimation. Jumping from #61 to #9 on the American Film Institute’s latest Top 100 list, the film is […]
THE BILL MURRAY STORIES: LIFE LESSONS LEARNT FROM A MYTHICAL MAN
“If we’re kind and polite, the world will be right.” There’s a reason Paddington 2 has been a monster success, and it’s the same reason why The Bill Murray Stories will resonate stronger than it might have in years […]
‘POWER MERI’ WORLD PREMIERE TO TAKE PLACE AT PASIFIKA FILM FESTIVAL
“At a time when women’s sport in Australia is enjoying unprecedented growth, exposure and opportunity, I hope the film will inspire women and girls in Australia to follow their dreams in sport or in life.” […]
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE X 6
This is the best Mission Impossible film since the first one and that’s now the fourth time you’ve heard that. Going against the grain in more ways than one, super-agent Ethan Hunt’s escapades are not […]
MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN
There’s a lot to be said for a film with absolutely no pretence. Scratch that – there’s a lot to be said for TWO films with absolutely no pretence which know their audience and what […]
SKYSCRAPER
It’s hard not to watch this movie and think of another, better movie. Die Hard, The Towering Inferno, Mission Impossible IV – take your pick; everything here has been done before and done better. Except […]
SICARIO 2: DAY OF THE SOLDADO
Taylor Sheridan, and everyone involved, are better than this. Picking up some time after the now saga’s phenomenal 2015 entry, the cartels are still that big a priority for the US Government, their on-screen semi-surrogate […]
JURASSIC WORLD: FALLEN KINGDOM
Fallen Kingdom has one of those great endings, it just makes you wait for it. The Malibu Stacey’s hat of movies, this by and large paint-by-numbers rehash of 2015’s Jurassic World almost, almost gives us […]
DISOBEDIENCE
This one was always going to be personal. Reviewers are supposed to step back, look, react to a film as fairly any audience would. This won’t be possible this time, and that is Disobedience’s design, […]
HEREDITARY
Hereditary breaks one of the cardinal rules of horror, upending what until this point lived up to its hype. Immediately following the death of her mother who was apparently involved in all sorts of creepy, […]
BLACKKKLANSMAN
“You cannot laugh and be afraid at the same time, and the devil cannot stand mockery.” Stephen Colbert’s words on election night 2016, or those like them, figured strongly in Spike Lee’s conception of BlacKkKlansman. […]
THE GUILTY
Packing more furrowed-brow acting into a film than you are ever likely to see, The Guilty is a reliably mood-driven Danish thriller. Set entirely in an emergency response centre, Copenhagen cop Asger (Jakob Cedergren), demoted […]
THE RANGER
No good comes of no good punk teens getting up to no good. The near-annual Sydney Film Festival punk rock-metal slasher gore horror-shocker ritual rears its head in the guise of The Ranger, one that […]
LEAVE NO TRACE
It’s rare you see something so powerful emerge from that so inscrutable. Ben Foster, now a force in Hollywood to be reckoned with following phenomenal turns in the likes of Hell or High Water, is […]
THE FIELD GUIDE TO EVIL
Bite-size horror for those who enjoy their shocks in smaller doses, Deathgasm Producer Ant Timpson’s thematic follow-up to the ABCs of Death focuses on the myth and folklore that has pervaded centuries of fear. An […]
ROCKABUL
Afghanistan’s first psychedelic metal band will hopefully not be their last. Following District Unknown through their travails, travels and some less than common receptions, Australian documentarian Travis Beard has produced a fairly intimate portrait of […]
AMERICAN ANIMALS
“There’s probably a lot that I embellished but not that much that I fabricated.” Bart Layton’s new film, based on the remarkable true story of a group of young men and their plan to heist […]
THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER
Blocking. It doesn’t get talked about much, but it’s very important – and Sara Colangelo knows what she’s doing. Increasingly obsessing over one of her students Jimmy (Parker Sevak), kindergarten teacher Lisa (Maggie Gyllenhaal) involves […]
THE PRINCE OF NOTHINGWOOD
Chomping scenery in each and every scene, the subject of The Prince of Nothingwood despite this feature film treatment remains strangely elusive. The chronicling of the current and historic exploits of prolific Afghani low-budget filmmaker-actor […]
SAMUI SONG
You probably saw that coming, but it won’t matter. Thai filmmaker Pen-Ek Ratanaruang’s latest could laxly be described as Dial M for Murder railroaded by a comedy of errors, but that wouldn’t ascribe much to […]
FILMWORKER
A film about film obsessives for one in the same, Filmworker offers a portrait of the one and only Stanley Kubrick that is, as elusively as just about any of the master’s output, a portrait […]
