Clik here to view.
Girl, incubated – Wetlands review
By Simon Miraudo July 7, 2014 Wetlands takes a gross thing, teenagerdom, and makes it grosser, which is like setting out to make an especially revolting movie about your last bout of conjunctivitis:...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Public frenemies – Lawrence and Holloman review
By Simon Miraudo July 9, 2014 More anti-human than Antichrist, Matthew Kowalchuck‘s beyond-black comedy Lawrence & Holloman asks us to revel in the largely-unsuccessful emotional torture of a jerk...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ethan Hawke and Sarah Snook loop-de-loop in time-skipping ‘Predestination’...
The Spierig Brothers – those rascally twins responsible for Aussie genre fare Undead and Daybreakers - are set to debut their new film Predestination at the 2014 Melbourne International Film...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Folman and Robin –‘The Congress’ Review
By Simon Miraudo August 1, 2014 The Congress is where brutal reality meets impossible fantasy, Tex Avery meets Studio Ghibli, and director Ari Folman meets actress Robin Wright, resulting in, at the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Round the twist –‘Predestination’ Review
By Simon Miraudo August 1, 2014 “Smart” movies can be dumb fun (Inception, Shutter Island), and “dumb” movies can be secretly smart (22 Jump Street, Spring Breakers), but movies about time travel…...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Do it again –‘The Infinite Man’ Review
By Richard Haridy August 5, 2014 The Infinite Man is a remarkably assured debut Australian feature that perfectly balances character and concept to give us not only one of the most tightly controlled...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Brooklyn’s finest –‘Appropriate Behavior’ Review
By Simon Miraudo August 8, 2014 Getting over an ex by getting under some strangers? That’s how Shirin plans to mourn the end of her last major relationship, although “plan” suggests there is some...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Hot air guitar –‘Jimi: All is by My Side’ Review
By Jess Lomas August 13, 2014 Before Jimi Hendrix (Andre Benjamin) lit his guitar on fire at Monterey Pop Festival, or played Woodstock, he wore cheetah-print shirts in a struggling R&B band. So...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Play with magic – The Dark Horse Review
A folk hero gets his big screen reward in James Napier Robertson’s The Dark Horse, a typical inspirational fable made fresh by its New Zealand setting. (A hit in its home country, The Dark Horse and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Better off dead – Force Majeure Review
An avalanche descends on a family of tourists and it’s not even among the five worst things to happen to them on their cursed ski trip in Force Majeure, the blackly comic Swedish psychodrama from...
View Article
