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BODIED
This author has only ever seen one film twice during a single Festival run. That was Bodied. Bodied will very likely will be the standard-bearer and standard for its particular subgenre of satire and comedy that […]
MANDY
Nicolas Cage: The Movie is here. That’s right, internet; you spoke, and the film Gods heard you. For this is not a film about a couple (Cage and Andrea Riseborough) and their quiet sojourn in […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E35: THE MEG, CRAZY RICH ASIANS, BLAZE, FIRST REFORMED, WEST OF SUNSHINE & MIRAI
Where we fight about Ethan Hawke behind and in front of the camera, giant sharks that should have remained extinct, rich folk who are both crazy and Asian, the latest Australian fare and […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E34: MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL & BODIED
Where we fight about the fightingest film ever, Bodied, and what you can look forward to in cinemas and else from the Melbourne International Film Festival with Another Bloody Movie Podcast’s Sean Coates – Wednesdays […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E33: MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL & ON CHESIL BEACH
Where we fight about the many, many top MIFF flicks and Saoirse Ronan’s return to the world of Ian McEwan with Sean Coates from Another Bloody Movie Podcast – Wednesdays 7:30PM on 2SER
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. […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 17: WIND RIVER, THAT’S NOT ME & MIFF 2017
Where we fight about the third chapter in Taylor Sheridan’s frontier trilogy, breakout Aussie comedy and Festival hit ‘That’s Not Me’ and all the latest from the Melbourne International Film Festival for Film […]
EMO THE MUSICAL
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 […]
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 […]
SUNTAN
Switching gears midway through a film isn’t always a bad thing. Kostis (Makis Papadimitriou) arrives at his new home and passing holiday destination for many – a beautiful Greek Island, surviving with 800 residents in […]
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 […]
KILLING GROUND
Silence is golden for a good horror film. Killing Ground isn’t the first shocker to be filmed in the isolation of the Australian bush, and based on the success of the formula, deployed to no […]
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 […]
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