Breakfast reviews on 2SER 107.3 – ‘mother!’ and ‘The Belko Experiment’
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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 […]
IT & SUFF 2017
Breakfast Movie Reviews on 2SER 107.3 – ‘It’ and the 2017 Sydney Underground Film Festival
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 […]
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 […]
ATOMIC BLONDE
You’ve seen Atomic Blonde before, you’ve just never seen it like this. Now undeniably one of the world’s biggest action stars, Charlize Theron has teamed up with David Leitch, one half of the uncredited Directing […]
VALERIAN AND THE CITY OF A THOUSAND PLANETS
Rarely has a film in modern memory replete with so many exceptional actors been so poorly cast. Luc Besson’s $180 million adaption of the beloved French comic series and the most expensive indie ever made […]
THE BIG SICK
The best creative output is all too often autobiographical, but art doesn’t always do the best job of imitating life. Comedian and Silicon Valley star Kumail Nanjiani, playing a thinly-fictionalized version of himself, quickly falls […]
DUNKIRK
Dunkirk is a lot of things. Counter-intuitively, Christopher Nolan’s latest is better defined by what it isn’t. It is not a war film, at least not in the traditional sense. Set amidst the large-scale military […]
A MONSTER CALLS
Some of the best films ever made chronicle the sad, terrible, fixating and/or fantastical ways we deal with grief. This is not one of them. Centred on English schoolboy Conor’s (Lewis MacDougall) attempts to come […]
WAR FOR THE PLANET OF THE APES
The dispiriting irony of this latest series of Apes films in that it trades so heavily on nostalgia for one of the greatest science-fiction stories ever realised that it so desperately hopes you haven’t seen. […]
FILM HAWK
One of a number of enjoyable films about films and their champions, Film Hawk, more than most, opts for a very inside baseball look at one of the industry’s well-known figures. Bob Hawk is a […]
SPIDER-MAN: HOMECOMING
Homecoming is the best Spider-Man film in fifteen years. It took a long time, but they’ve done him justice. Never before has someone, who actually looks like a teenager to boot, ever nailed the nonchalant, […]
BABY DRIVER
High expectations are the worst. There are few fans of Edgar Wright who wouldn’t salivate at the prospect of The World’s End and Hot Fuzz Director taking on another much-loved series of tropes, in this […]
MCLAREN
Only the second and last driver to win a Formula One Grand Prix with his name on the bonnet, Bruce McLaren’s formidable legacy gets a fairly laudable treatment in Roger Donaldson’s new documentary. No stranger […]
THE BEGUILED
There are two films here – you might like one of them, and you may struggle to like both. Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled, based on the novel by Thomas P. Cullinan, itself adapted by Don […]
PACMEN
No one wants to see how the sausage is made. You might however want to see this film. The Republican primary season of 2016 will inevitably be the subject of countless films and documentaries. One […]
OTHERLIFE
Fixing on a great idea or something you haven’t seen before isn’t easy – watching any flick is that much better when you know the filmmakers have floored their premise. Home-grown Aussie sci-fi OtherLife asks […]
THE FARTHEST
Imagine knowing that the first time extra-terrestrial life hears a human voice, it might be yours. Or better yet, Chuck Berry. Charting the Voyager project from the get-go to, as Star Trek fans can attest […]
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