Blockers is a strange one. An avowedly dumb movie that’s actually a lot smarter than it will have you believe, packs a frightfully regressive plot unashamed to bandy about it’s woke credentials. If this sounds […]
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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ISLE OF DOGS
Isle of dogs, a lot more than this movie. In this latest foray into animation by the Fantastic Mr. Fox Director, a young boy crash-lands on a Japanese island, heaped with the nation’s deserted pups, in […]
A QUIET PLACE
Have you ever found yourself mimicking someone in a horror film, holding your breath when they do, or clinging to your seat for dear life? What about trying to be completely silent, when every instinct […]
PACIFIC RIM: UPRISING
Sequels are sparingly better than their precursors. Pacific Rim: Uprising had a very low bar, and to the film’s credit it comfortably clears it. Does this make Uprising a great film, or at all memorable? […]
LOVE, SIMON
For interviews with Nick Robinson & Katherine Langford see here Simon is in high school. He’s your regular run-of-the-mill guy with better than average looks, the perfect family and friends with supporting roles in Marvel […]
READY PLAYER ONE
Nostalgia has never had such a big playground. There’s a question as to whether we need a film that is in so many ways derivative of readily available pop culture stalwarts, but then how many […]
TOMB RAIDER
There are games you can play more than once and discover nuances every time. There are others where you solve the mystery, play it once with no regrets and then await the next iteration in […]
ANNIHILATION
To baffle someone is one thing – to flummox them is something else entirely. A distinction made by the best of science fiction, it is not made here. The highly-anticipated (maybe) sophomore Directorial feature by […]
GAME NIGHT
No one asked for a David Fincher parody and we really, really should have. Game Night is perhaps most brazen for skewering a film, The Game, that has not superseded pop culture so greatly as […]
RED SPARROW
Somewhere, in the bowels of every major studio, is a pile of screenplays that since late 1989 have slowly been gathering dust. On top of one of those piles was Red Sparrow. But for Charlotte […]
ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY SHADES OF GREY
Probably what Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson were saying to themselves as filming drew to a close, Fifty Shades Freed was always going to cop it. The third and least satisfying of the long-awaited E. […]
BLACK PANTHER
You know what to expect with a Marvel movie, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be surprised. Hitting almost every regular beat of the multi-billion dollar franchise, Black Panther is the final iteration to be […]
THE CLOVERFIELD PARADOX FAILS TO LAND
Are you a Star Trek fan? Then you aren’t missing much here. Dropped sensationally on Netflix the same day the trailer first aired at the Super Bowl, The Cloverfield Paradox, the third and by no […]
WHY LADY BIRD IS A TRIUMPH
There’s a beautiful moment at the beginning of Lady Bird where if you blink you’ll miss it. If you do it doesn’t matter, given Greta Gerwig’s latest bears too many to count. Christine, an imminent […]
PHANTOM THREAD
Have you ever seen a match stick house? They’re beautiful, quaint and instantly flammable. Watching Phantom Thread, itself a beautiful and considered construction, you can’t escape the niggling sensation that it’s a spark away from […]
I, TONYA
I, Tonya is a film about abuse and violence. There is also figure skating. And 80’s pop. Does that sound like an irreverent take on something that’s anything but irreverent? Do you get the feeling […]
MOLLY’S GAME
An aspiring make-or-breaker. The murky corridors that end in power. A fraught relationship with one’s dad. Aaron Sorkin fans won’t go home disappointed; the veteran writer and feature debut Director, unable to settle on one […]
THE COMMUTER: PRODUCTION MEETING
Fourth-time collaborators Liam Neeson & Jaume Collet-Serra had a bit of a break after the appropriately named Run All Night. It was time to make another movie. Liam: Jaume! Jaume: Liam! Liam: So, I was […]
THE SHAPE OF WATER
Director Guillermo Del Toro’s utterly beguiling ode to filmmaking’s most romantic era is unmissable cinema. Here combining the wonder of the most elusively mysterious monster fantasies with the loving spells which better characterised the unabashed […]
ALL THE MONEY IN THE WORLD
Almost every film needs a bad guy. In the better ones, it may never be clear-cut. Starring Michelle Williams, Mark Wahlberg, Christopher Plummer, Charlie Plummer (no relation) and not Kevin Spacey, All The Money In […]
THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI
Martin McDonagh wants to make you wince. He wants to make you uncomfortable and, most significantly, he wants to make you laugh. The In Bruges Director, less interested in a roundly cohesive plot or internal […]
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