Gilmore Girls is better than everything else that’s out now, so let’s talk about it
Category: Film/TV
El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie
Everyone needs closure, Jesse Pinkman no less
All engines go at British Film Festival 2019
Keira Knightley. Ian McKellen. Helen Mirren. Even more Helen Mirren
Australian Cinema – Reality Checked
The most terrifying thing about film is that it’s all already happened
‘Blue Moon’, ‘Sad Sachs’ Among SF3 2019 Winners
Most films forget to place the bomb under the table – very few manage three ticking simultaneously
Italian Film Festival 2019 Picks
Here’s a few picks that might just help you sort out your IFF 2019 schedule!
SF3 Marks 5th Year with 1st Smartphone Film
“My prediction is that a couple of years from now the fact a feature was shot on a phone will be totally unremarkable. When Blue Moon screened in Dublin the curator didn’t tell the audience […]
Short + Sweet Film Festival Sydney Awards 2019 Winners
“It always feels good to get recognition, what made this one special is that it was in my home town”
SUFF Launches 2019 Program
It’s that oh so disquieting, insightful, morbid mind-bogglingly fun time of year with the Sydney Underground Film Festival launching the 2019 program! The purveyors of all things colourful with classes and comps to boot – […]
Film Fight Club S3E26: Netflix
Always Be My Maybe, I Am Mother, Murder Mystery, Rolling Thunder Revue, Derry Girls, Stranger Things, Black Mirror & Star Trek: Discovery
Stranger Things Season 3
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
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
