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 […]
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 […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 18: LOGAN LUCKY, THE LOST CITY OF Z, THE DARK TOWER & JERRY LEWIS
Where we fight about Steven Soderbergh “coming out of retirement,” the big MIFF flick about getting lost in the Bolivian jungle that didn’t feature Daniel Radcliffe and what has Stephen King fans everywhere […]
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 […]
DUNKIRK
Dunkirk is a lot of things. Counter-intuitively, Christopher Nolan’s latest is better defined by what it isn’t. It is not a war film, at least not in the traditional sense. Set amidst the large-scale military […]
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. […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 14: DUNKIRK, A MONSTER CALLS, A GHOST STORY & GEORGE A. ROMERO
Where we fight about Dunkirk, A Monster Calls, A Ghost Story and the legacy of George A. Romero – join Glen Falkenstein, Chris Evans & Virat Nehru on Film Fight Club, Wednesdays 7:30 […]
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 […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 10: GOOD TIME, HAN SOLO & MICHAEL NYQVIST
Where we fight about R-Patz’s latest Good Time, breakout child stars, the late, great Michael Nyqvist and what the once-Han Solo anthology Directors have termed “situation normal” Join Glen Falkenstein, Virat Nehru and Chris […]
