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 […]
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 […]
MOTHER!
It’s a special feat for a film to so divide critical opinion that the trenchant reactions’ very nature, rather than pure consideration of the flick’s actual merits, or lack thereof, would go such a way […]
IT STAINS THE SANDS RED
Perhaps the creators couldn’t decide which film to make, in which case, they made both. The first is a fairly traditional zombie shocker which introduces a series of novelties later in it’s run, as Molly […]
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 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 […]
MY NAME IS EMILY
Uplifting if wildly uneven, My Name is Emily will leave you with a smile on your face and no doubt scratching your head. Emily (Harry Potter’s Evanna Lynch) has had a rough time. Her […]
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 […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 8: SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
Join Glen Falkenstein, Virat Nehru and special guest Addy Fong for Sydney Film Festival highlights and all the flicks to catch at the Fest – Wednesdays 7:30pm on 2SER 107.3 For Sydney Film […]
THE FOREST OF LOST SOULS
Let’s go with glass half full. The debut feature by Portugese Director Jose Pedro Lopes, The Forest of Lost Souls, at least for the first Act, is engrossing horror. Set upon dying in a forest […]
I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” Director Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro is not a film that lends itself to casual nor […]
BETTER WATCH OUT
It’s one thing to be knocked off your feet by a top horror flick, it’s another entirely to find out they shot it down the road from your childhood home. Set in a quiet suburban […]
THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE
Compelling if flawed, the one thing you can’t fault here is the title. Driving right at the heart of the radically different notions that makes this film tick, The Other Side of Hope manages to […]
THE WORKER’S CUP
Going beyond the headlines of Qatar’s controversial bid for the 2022 FIFA tournament, The Worker’s Cup focuses on a very different but by no means less compelling competition, that of the workers building the stadiums. […]
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