Do you ever get the feeling that you’ve seen Groundhog Day more than once? The latest low-budget horror laughathon from Jason Blum begs the comparison not simply by marrying the convention with a cavalcade of […]
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LOVING VINCENT
Taking painting by numbers to a whole new level – Vincent Van Gogh is fittingly the subject of the first ever fully painted feature film. A panoply of the Dutch master’s works are intermingled throughout […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 23: BATTLE OF THE SEXES, MOTHER! & KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE
Where we fight about one of the biggest rivalries in tennis history, the most divisive film of the year and just what has splurged forth from Matthew Vaughn’s mind – join Glen Falkenstein, Chris […]
BATTLE OF THE SEXES
Sports movies are generally more about sports than not – but this is not a sports movie. Billie Jean King’s face-off with Bobby Riggs is the stuff of tennis legend and fittingly the subject of […]
KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE
If you stop to think about Kingsman for a minute, you might not like it. This holds whether you go in looking for a pure action-romp, here indulgent and purposely affronting even beyond the already […]
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 […]
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. […]
DAMIEN LIPP ON THE WORLD PREMIERE OF ONE-SHOT WONDER ‘WATCH THE SUNSET’
‘Watch The Sunset’ Producer and Director of Photography Damien Lipp on what it takes to capture a film in one-shot “Watch The Sunset is Australia’s first one-take feature film… it’s basically shot over an […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 11: SPIDER-MAN HOMECOMING, REBOOTS & REMAKES
Where we fight about Spider-Man: Homecoming, the flicks we would happily see rebooted and this week’s best bad movie, Entourage – join Glen Falkenstein, Virat Nehru and Chris Evans Wednesdays 7:30 on 2SER […]
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 […]
LUKE WALKER ON PACMEN AND BEING IN THE RIGHT PLACE
“They not only persuaded him (Ben Carson) to run but they get him to number one in the polls and when that happened, two weeks after I got there Carson had got to […]
WIND RIVER
Taylor Sheridan. Remember that name. The Actor turned Writer and now Director blew away audiences with Sicario in 2015 and only a year later turned over Hell or High Water, the criminally underrated Oscars dark […]
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