Us flies chose well to spend a day on the wall with this crew. Following a group of friends, co-workers and new recruits thrown into the deep-end of a highway-side “sports bar with curves,” an […]
MELBOURNE DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL LAUNCHES PROGRAM
With documentaries proving ever a Festival favourite, the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival has released it’s annual program set to kick off in July. With features ranging from New Zealand to Japan, from George Michael […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E21: SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR NASHEN MOODLEY
Where we put aside our fighting to chat all things Sydney Film Festival 2018 with Festival Director Nashen Moodley, the creative directions for this year’s program and what you can’t miss – Wednesdays […]
SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY
It’s exactly what you think. In Solo’s far and above best sequence, when one character tells another “don’t improvise,” you know what is going to happen. Both a highlight and cautionary tale for the film […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E20: DEADPOOL 2, KODACHROME & TULLY
Where we fight about Deadpool playing Ryan Reynolds playing Deadpool, the indie movie to end all indie movies which screened at the American Essentials Film Festival and an extended discussion about one of […]
TULLY
Tully is one of those terribly difficult films to discuss without spoilers, so bear with me. The second Diablo Cody collaboration with Charlize Theron following Young Adult and third Cody collaboration with Juno Director Jason […]
DEADPOOL 2
The worst sin a movie can commit is far from being irreverent. To the contrary, that’s what movies so often and acceptably are, and if they happen to flounder into the realms of theses beyond […]
KODACHROME
Two years ago, an artificial intelligence robot called Benjamin wrote a screenplay after absorbing hundreds of others taken from science fiction films and television. Rudimentary, the finished product nonetheless bore basic tenets and tropes of […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E19: TIME TRAVEL TO MAY 2008 – IRON MAN, SPEED RACER & KINGDOM OF THE CRYSTAL SKULL
Where we take the Tardis to May 2008 to review Marvel’s make-or-break Iron Man, The Matrix Directors’ new flick and after a 19-year hiatus the long-awaited Indy sequel – Wednesdays 7:30PM on 2SER
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
Director Sean O’Riordan wasn’t wrong to describe Troilus and Cressida as a “problem play.” Shakespeare’s tragedy, action, comedy, drama and passenger-side view of the siege of Troy is not one of the Bard’s most prolific […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E18: SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAM LAUNCH
Where we chat to Sydney Film Festival Director Nashen Moodley fresh off the program launch about this year’s line-up, fight about our favourite picks and what you should go see and chat to […]
IRISH FILM FESTIVAL – FILMMAKER INTERVIEWS & OPENING NIGHT
The Film Fight Club crew’s coverage of the Irish Film Festival 2018 – taking place over four days at Paddington’s Chauvel Cinema, we reviewed the opening night flick Maze, spoke with No Stone Unturned Producer Trevor Birney […]
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 […]
ANON
One of those near-future escapades where the execution is barely a match for the idea, Clive Owen and Amanda Seyfried give it all they’ve got in Anon. Starring respectively as a hardened detective and an […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E17: CINEMA REBORN INTERVIEW, LOVELESS, UNSANE & GUERNSEY
Where we chat to Geoffrey Gardner from Cinema Reborn – the inaugural Festival kicks off Thursday night at AFTRS – and fight about the latest in Russian cinema, the exact of opposite of […]
AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR
Magnificent and magnificently flawed, when judged against the standards set by its precursors Avengers: Infinity War joyously excels. And it is only fair to judge this and all other entries against the now 19-strong behemoth […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E16: AVENGERS INFINITY WAR
It’s a big one for our first anniversary and fiftieth episode where we fight about the fightingest movie of 2018 – Avengers: Infinity War (spoiler-free review) – Wednesdays 7:30PM on 2SER
FOURTH ANNUAL IRISH FILM FESTIVAL LAUNCHES IN SYDNEY
The fourth annual Irish Film Festival kicked off in it’s 2018 run at Paddington’s Chauvel Cinema with a sold-out screening of Maze, based on the 1983 breakout of a heavily-fortified prison in Northern Ireland. The […]
TRUTH OR DARE
Truth or Dare is the model of what to do and what not to do in a horror film. Step one – always, always find that great premise. The one that sets you apart and […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E15: IRISH FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR ENDA MURRAY, FOR FILM’S SAKE & RAMPAGE
Where we chat to Irish Film Festival Director Enda Murray about this year’s program which kicks off this week, our favourite flick’s from For Film’s Sake and the aptly titled RAMPAGE – Wednesdays […]
THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY
The most British thing since the last Lily James Second World War drama, The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (hereafter mercifully referred to as ‘Guernsey’) is, thankfully, a great deal better. Whereas Darkest […]
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