The Daily Movie Reviews on 2SER 107.3 – The Post, Coco, The Shape of Water & Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
THE POST
Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, Government secrets, a scandalous true story and indomitable journalism. You could easily think this Pentagon Papers retrospective is a lock for Best Picture. It isn’t. The Post, based […]
THE GREATEST SHOWMAN
The Greatest Showman isn’t even trying to be believable, and that’s the point. A hodgepodge of real life, fictions and glorifying showmanship that would make P.T. Barnum proud, this kid’s musical-biopic (yes, it’s for the […]
BRIGHT
Bright is not the best film of 2017. Contrary to what you might have heard, it’s not one of the worst ones either. First and foremost, Bright has, for lack of a better word, a […]
CALL ME BY YOUR NAME
Every once in a while a film comes along that reminds you how good cinema can be. You may be hearing a lot about Call Me By Your Name now and in the future, whether […]
DARKEST HOUR
Gary Oldman wants an Oscar and that’s the only reason to watch this film. Recalling Winston Churchill’s ascendance as Prime Minister and the tense days immediately preceding Operation Dynamo and events better realised in the […]
REBEL IN THE RYE
With literary biopics back in vogue, a treatment of the departed J.D. Salinger and his seminal, sole novel was inevitable. Invariably, these flicks champion one or more strands of their subject’s life, extrapolating them over […]
DOWNSIZING
Great ideas don’t always work. Alexander Payne’s Downsizing was one of the most anticipated films of an already packed year. An original conceit debuting to early plaudits, if formidable, rendered too grandly here derails this […]
STAR WARS: THE LAST JEDI
No series has to factor with a greater weight of expectations than Star Wars. It shows. Having to reckon with its predecessors’ legacy to deliver, like its forbears, something both original and dependently familiar here […]
B GHOST STORY
Produced as part of Sydney’s Kino Kabaret 2017
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 34: CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, DOWNSIZING & DARKEST HOUR
Where we fight about a film everyone should see, a tiny Matt Damon, what Gary Oldman has to do to win an Oscar, Tangerine Director Sean Baker’s latest, the bear from Peru & […]
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 […]
BORG VS MCENROE
Finally, a sports movie that’s actually about sport. Invariably, football, rugby, Olympian and yes, tennis movies, including Battle of the Sexes, use their competitive backdrop to tell a larger story. Whether it be overcoming adversity, […]
THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER
The second best Cannes psychological drama starring Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman to be released in the past five months, both fans and detractors of Yorgos Lanthimos should know what to expect. Obliquely visited upon […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 33: THE DISASTER ARTIST & IN THIS CORNER OF THE WORLD
Where we fight about one of the best movies of the year about one of the worst movies of all time and animation In This Corner of the World with special guest Kevin […]
PROFESSOR MARSTON AND THE WONDER WOMEN
There are three stories here, and as much as this film might blur the boundaries they are very, very different. Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, as the title might suggest, relates to the creator […]
THE DISASTER ARTIST
Get ready for the film about ‘the worst movie ever made’ that wants to be the Best Picture of the year. If you haven’t seen the participatory crowd-favourite phenomenon that is The Room (what are […]
LUCKY
The last film yet released starring the late, prolific Harry Dean Stanton, this is one for the fans, and fans alone. The elderly Lucky (Stanton) lives his days routinely, hopping amongst the locales of his […]
HIGH FIDELITY
High Fidelity the musical has big shoes to fill. An adaptation of the acclaimed Nick Hornby novel, itself transformed into the much-loved turn of the millennium flick about perennially self-absorbed list-maker and record store owner Rob […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 32: THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER, PROFESSOR MARSTON AND THE WONDER WOMEN & REBEL IN THE RYE
Where we fight about the second best Colin Farrell/Nicole Kidman drama from this year’s Cannes, the third film this year to feature Wonder Woman and the Kevin Spacey flick where they couldn’t recast […]
JUSTICE LEAGUE
Who let this happen? Who, no doubt having seen Dawn of Justice, surmised that those behind Watchmen and Man of Steel, rather than, say, any of their more dexterous contemporaries, were the ones to raise […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 31: JUSTICE LEAGUE AND THE JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL
Where we are all in for Batfleck’s latest and all our favourite flicks from this year’s Japanese Film Festival – join Glen Falkenstein, Chris Evans & Virat Nehru on Film Fight Club, Wednesdays […]
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