Something cognizant, inspired and reminiscent of wondrous 80’s era-filmmaking and significantly so without being derivative. And then it started to become derivative of itself
Category: Film/TV
Star Trek: Discovery shows everyone how it’s done
In months past Game of Thrones had a series-long finale and 22 blockbusters culminated in Endgame. Amidst it all, Star Trek: Discovery, only in it’s second season, showed everyone how it’s done
Black Mirror – Season 5
Well that was, anticlimactic
‘Transmilitary’ Directors on the Award-Winning Doco
Gabe Silverman and Fiona Dawson discuss the origins and impact of their powerful documentary, and its connection to the controversial Trump administration ban on trans people serving in the military
MELBOURNE DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL LAUNCHES 2019 PROGRAM
Weird, searing, strange and wonderful – the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival has launched their 2019 slate! This year’s run features among many entries the story of Marc Hauser (above) who dearly wants to be the […]
GAME OF THRONES SERIES FINALE
Spoiler warning: This post contains spoilers for Game of Thrones and the series finale “I imagined a mountain of swords too high to climb, so many fallen enemies who could only see the soles of […]
GAME OF THRONES: THE BELLS
It’s very easy to tell the difference between good Game of Thrones and bad Game of Thrones
66TH #SYDFILMFEST PROGRAM LAUNCHES WITH GENRE, HORROR & COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS
The truly weird, wacky and wonderful are usually left for those ‘Freak Me Out’ screenings packed by those most dedicated genre fans. Not this year. Launching the 2019 Sydney Film Festival program at Sydney’s Town […]
GAME OF THRONES: SEASON 8 EPISODE 4
When will Game of Thrones stick to what works?
THE BATTLE OF WINTERFELL
8 years of build-up, two full episodes sitting around the fireplace with characters and the promise of the longest battle ever filmed is a lot to live up to
GAME OF THRONES: WINTERFELL
It’s remarkable how even five episodes out that same commitment to world-building and character dynamics still shines bright. WARNING: This post is dark and full of spoilers What could (almost) forgivingly have pleasingly passed with […]
DERRY GIRLS
One would do well to discover this gem
POLAR – BAD
A rare deed of terrible filmmaking emerging from a unique combination of guileless over-confidence and frightful neglect, Polar is one to scroll past
VELVET BUZZSAW
‘Art is dangerous,’ at least to this author, remains one of the most frustratingly adapted, frequently used turns of phrase in an industry that as Velvet Buzzsaw entreaties can become obsessed with itself. Artists are […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E52: NETFLIX; THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS, HOLD THE DARK, THE SINNER, CAM, SHIRKERS, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND & MOWGLI
Where in our very last show for 2018 we fight about our favourite and least favourite Netflicks – tune in Wednesdays 7:30PM from 2019 on 2SER, subscribe on iTunes & Spotify and have […]
THE SINNER – SEASON 2
The Sinner is quickly becoming one of the best thrillers on US television – even if the second season isn’t quite a match for the first. Benefiting greatly from star Jessica Biel, here returning off-screen […]
SF3 GALA 2018 SHOWS WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH AN IPHONE OR SAMSUNG
“Smartphone filmmaking has come a long way – thank you for supporting the democratisation of filmmaking” SF3 SmartFone Flick Fest co-founders Angela Blake and Alison Crew welcomed the Festival’s largest-ever crowd to last night’s Gala, […]
PROGRAM LAUNCH: 25 FLICKS TO CATCH AT THE SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL
If finding the quickest routes from Dendy Newtown to Circular Quay to the State Theatre is a challenge you face yearly, then you’re as excited for the Sydney Film Festival as the hundreds of eager […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E3: NETFLIX
Where we fight about the future of cinema and the best and worst things now streaming on Netflix – join Glen Falkenstein, Chris Evans & Virat Nehru Wednesdays on 2SER
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E1 – THE LAST JEDI, GOLDEN GLOBES & BEST OF 2017
A fight a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, what the Hollywood Foreign Press are up to and, now that 2017 is over, the best films of the year – […]
THE SINNER
Every good murder mystery needs something that makes it just that bit different, and ever so often exceptional. Deserving of its place in the long line of shrewder, mind-bending whodunnits, The Sinner is actually anything […]
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 […]
