Mary Shelley may have liked her most recent biopic, but she wouldn’t have written it. Starring Elle Fanning in the lead role, together with Douglas Booth (Percy Shelley), Tom Sturridge (Lord Byron) and Bel Powley […]
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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SUBURBICON
Suburbicon wants you to think it’s another Coen Brothers classic. Written by the redoubtable pair, Grant Heslov, George Clooney and directed by the latter, it may look and feel like their golden era but lands […]
THOR: RAGNAROK – A CHECKLIST
Irreverent opening extravaganza of little relevance to main story – check A lauded indie/out of left field Director (Taika Waititi) to give the Marvel Cinematic Universe a much needed injection of new – check Return […]
THAT GOOD NIGHT
John Hurt’s last film yet released, itself a reminder of our own merciless mortality, That Good Night’s formidable focus is regretfully the subject of this ineffectual production. Ralph (Hurt), a reclusive, clearly affluent scribe, whose […]
ASSASSINS
Have you ever wondered what would happen if every assassin of an American President got together for a musical? A gaudy romp through the history of infamous and lesser known public enemies, it’s not easy […]
CARGO
Cargo is every emerging filmmaker’s dream. A short, lauded at Tropfest, captures studio eyes with a premise more than worthy of a fully funded feature, here adapted to thrilling if flawed effect. Taking over as […]
SWEET COUNTRY
Sometimes it’s never too early to reckon a film has the makings of a classic. Sweet Country’s setting may be of a time and place yet it is a film that figures well beyond it’s […]
HAPPY DEATH DAY
Do you ever get the feeling that you’ve seen Groundhog Day more than once? The latest low-budget horror laughathon from Jason Blum begs the comparison not simply by marrying the convention with a cavalcade of […]
BLADE RUNNER 2049
Blade Runner 2049’s most enduring legacy, not unlike it’s predecessor, will no doubt be it’s ability to defy interpretation. Fairly one of the two most anticipated films of 2017, the deftness of the film’s contributions […]
LOVING VINCENT
Taking painting by numbers to a whole new level – Vincent Van Gogh is fittingly the subject of the first ever fully painted feature film. A panoply of the Dutch master’s works are intermingled throughout […]
SCIFI FILM FESTIVAL SET TO SCREEN FROM WEDNESDAY
“Science fiction has always been a genre of endless potential for storytellers, which stretches the imagination and offers mind-bending and jaw-dropping ideas – Sci-Fi genre films give us the opportunity to escape for the briefest […]
BATTLE OF THE SEXES
Sports movies are generally more about sports than not – but this is not a sports movie. Billie Jean King’s face-off with Bobby Riggs is the stuff of tennis legend and fittingly the subject of […]
KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE
If you stop to think about Kingsman for a minute, you might not like it. This holds whether you go in looking for a pure action-romp, here indulgent and purposely affronting even beyond the already […]
MOTHER!
It’s a special feat for a film to so divide critical opinion that the trenchant reactions’ very nature, rather than pure consideration of the flick’s actual merits, or lack thereof, would go such a way […]
IT STAINS THE SANDS RED
Perhaps the creators couldn’t decide which film to make, in which case, they made both. The first is a fairly traditional zombie shocker which introduces a series of novelties later in it’s run, as Molly […]
TRAGEDY GIRLS
A starry night. An ageing mid-west bridge. Two teenagers in the back of a car. A bump in the night. A savage murderer. Tragedy Girls’ opener may sound like a typical horror film. Thankfully, it’s […]
FOUND FOOTAGE FESTIVAL OPENS SUFF 2017
Packing Marrickville’s Factory Theatre with lovers of the strange, perplexing and endearingly gaudy, the first-ever Australian appearance of Found Footage Festival founders Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher kicked off the 11th annual Sydney Underground Film […]
THE HITMAN’S BODYGUARD
Samuel L. Jackson. Ryan Reynolds. An enviable budget for making things go boom. Need we say more. Hollywood’s latest, greatest assault on subtext and subtlety, “Executive Protection Agent” Michael Bryce (Reynolds) is tasked by ex-girlfriend […]
‘REARVIEW’ THE BIG WINNER AT THE SF3 SMARTFONE FLICK FEST 2017 GALA AWARDS
“There’s such an amazing networking community happening in the smartphone film space, we’re really amazed to be a part of it.” SF3 SmartFone Flick Fest Co-Director Angela Blake, having wrapped this year’s Gala Awards at […]
DAMIEN POWER ON ‘KILLING GROUND’ NATIONAL RELEASE
“With low budget films you have to really offer people an experience to see it in the cinema – Killing Ground delivers that kind of visceral experience that really gets people talking.” Aussie filmmaker Damien […]
THE BELKO EXPERIMENT
The Belko Experiment desperately wants you to believe it’s three things: A schlocky, no-holds-barred horror gore-fest; At times, a genuinely jarring shocker; and A searing satire on office politics to which any co-worker can relate. […]
LOGAN LUCKY
Actors love to play against type. Some take it to another level. Channing Tatum, only recently dubbed the sexiest man alive, wouldn’t necessarily be the first choice for a down on his luck anti-hero who […]
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