Emo The Musical, as its title might suggest, likes to make fun of things. Emos. Public schools. Awkward teenagers. Religious groups. Really, really dark music. They all get a skewing in this quirky, original Australian […]
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FEAR ITSELF
A film that goes bump in the night, Fear Itself is an excellent, extensive, feature visual essay on the cogs and spurs that go into making any good horror flick. Presented with deliberately unnerving narration, […]
CHRISTINE
Reviewing a film like Christine presents an endearing conundrum for any critic, here going to the very core of the film. Christine is based on an infamous live-TV event in the 1970’s that occurred on […]
CHEVALIER
A celebration of all things man, Chevalier’s escalating Olympics of masculine one-upmanship is something to which a lot of dudes will very much relate. Confined to a yacht in the Aegean Sea, a group of […]
FRANK & LOLA
Michael Shannon, leagues ahead of even this exultantly talented cast, nails it again in Matthew Ross’ new romantic thriller. Frank (Michael Shannon) loves Lola (Imogen Poots). Frank is a struggling chef. Lola is a struggling […]
BEWARE THE SLENDERMAN
Who is, Slenderman? Imprinted on the popular consciousness after years of online obscurity, the highly-publicized stabbing of a 12-year-old in Waukesha, Wisconsin, reportedly to appease the Slenderman, brought the little known pocket of digital folklore harshly […]
LOUIS THEROUX: MY SCIENTOLOGY MOVIE
What do you do when the group you’re trying to expose, as would be expected, don’t play ball? Make a film to spite them. Louis Theroux’s My Scientology Movie takes a bunch of frustrated documentarians, […]
ELLE
To anyone increasingly frustrated by a lack of originality or who reckons cinema today is ‘too safe,’ Elle has you covered. Opening with the brutal home invasion and sexual assault of its title character (Isabelle […]
DIRECTOR DAVID FARRIER TALKS ‘TICKLED’
“It’s about a tickling competition but then it gets a lot darker and I don’t really want them to know anything more than that.” New Zealand journalist, TV personality, andTickled director/star David Farrier sat down to […]
BORN TO BE BLUE
Robert Budreau’s Chet Baker biopic had the opportunity to riff off any number of Chet Baker tunes and titles. The Whitlams’ ‘Thank you (for loving me at my worst)’ might have suited even better. Thankfully […]
HIGH-RISE
It’s none too helpful when a film’s characters, and in this case its narrator, in no uncertain terms tell us exactly what we should think about it. An adaptation of the J.G. Ballard novel expositing […]
BEING 17
To put it bluntly, it’s a very touching movie that could have done a lot more with less. French drama Being 17 chronicles some months in the lives of teenagers and high school adversaries Damien […]
THE FAMILY FANG
A lesser film spends a lot of time explaining itself. A good film doesn’t have to. Jason Bateman’s second feature directorial effort has an unusual, and to its credit original premise which it spends a […]
I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER
Do you like shows about serial killers, sociopaths and those pesky, none-too-slightly unhinged stalwarts of horror flicks that go bump in the night? Mining our collective fascination revived 25 years ago with The Silence of […]
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