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, […]
Author: Glen Falkenstein
Glen produces film, theatre and television news, reviews and commentary for a number of outlets, covering Festivals, interviews and events.
Glen lives in Sydney where he enjoys making short films.
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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 […]
AGA
Aga is first and foremost and in more than one respect a beautiful film. Set in some of the northernmost reaches of the globe, couple Nanook and Sedna, absent their daughter who long since left […]
WHAT KEEPS YOU ALIVE
What Keeps You Alive almost had the confidence in it’s premise to pull it off. Married couple Jackie (Hannah Emily Anderson) and Jules (Brittany Allen – It Stains the Sands Red), venture out to Jackie’s […]
THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST
Part jarring, part funny, part derivative and at times a curious jumble of all three – The Miseducation of Cameron Post has a lot going for it. Following the co-habitation of several involuntary, and complicit […]
PIERCING
Putting us on a pile of rugs and ripping them all away, Piercing is having no go of the expected. Obsessed with, well, piercing, only the more fatal kind, husband and father Reed (Christopher Abbott), […]
YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE
All the pieces did well to come together for this one. Hired muscle, vigilante, however you want to look at him Joaquin Phoenix’s Joe is a figure to be reckoned with who’s all about the […]
BEIRUT
Not even trying to be too realistic, your thriller of the week has taken a trip to the Middle East. Flash US diplomat Mason Skiles (Jon Hamm), ten years following a tragic end to his […]
SEARCHING
Before anyone says anything – we’re already looking at screens all day. Taking place entirely on Skype, Messenger, Chat, Youtube, YouCast and anything that shows up on your laptop, a worried father (John Cho) searches […]
THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS
As curious as it is frequently infuriating, Three Identical Strangers takes its fascinating subject(s) to altogether captivating places. An incredulous true story that you could dismiss had it turned up in the fiction shelves, three […]
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