Jack Quaid is Hughie Campbell Everywhere you look these days, it’s all about superheroes – tv, cinema, comics, toys, cosplay… Every person on the planet has heard of Batman or Spider-Man, these fictional vigilantes are so embedded into pop culture that it’s hard to think of a world without these characters. Some websites and fan …
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Review – Crawl
“Apex predator all day.” Barry Pepper and Kaya Scodelario Alexandre Aja is back! The French director best known for his gloriously gory remake of The Hills Have Eyes, is delivering another creature feature, after trying out this genre with a bit more humour back in 2010 by remaking Piranha. Crawl is nothing like Piranha 3D. It’s a viciously claustrophobic thriller, full of …
Review – Booksmart
“Nobody knows we’re fun.” – Molly Beanie Feldstein, Kaitlyn Dever and Jessica Williams in Booksmart A coming of age comedy about girls/women, written by women, directed by a woman and starring two talented women. To the guys out there questioning if this is something they should check out, I shout: FUCK YEAH! I’ve seen some …
Review – Stuber
“It’s going down tonight.” – Leon Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista Dolph Lundgren and Sarah Connor-jokes aside, Stuber is nothing more than a rehash of Schwarzenegger action comedies we’ve seen in the ’90s. Formula filmmaking you can predict before it even happens, with violence that tries to shock but mostly just interrupts whatever is really …
Review – Parasite
“If I had all this I would be kinder.” – Chung-sook After winning the Palme d’Or in Cannes, the French Oscars let’s say, Sydney Film Festival was quick to reel in that line and get Parasite to screen at multiple sold out venues around the city. At the end of the festival, the film got awarded the biggest price (Best Film) …
Review – Yesterday
Everyone in the World Has Forgotten the Beatles. Everyone Except Jack…. Himesh Patel and Lily James What if a global power outage caused you to get hit by a bus in the dark, and you wake up discovering there’s no sign of anything The Beatles have ever accomplished? There was a time when Danny Boyle was a director who’s …
Review – Toy Story 4
“Yes I Can-ada!” – Duke Caboom The announcement of a fourth Toy Story chapter, felt like an easy cash grab for Disney, after the huge success that was the concluding Toy Story 3. After seeing the first trailer and synopsis, I still wasn’t sure if this was gonna work. So being a bit cautious of seeing these …
Review – I Am Mother
She’ll keep you safe. Hilary Swank is Woman In I Am Mother, we find ourselves in a dystopian world where all human life has been wiped out. It’s Day 1 and Daughter (Clara Rugaard) is born from a frozen embryo. 6,000 days later, she’s a young woman taking personality exams and is training to be a …
SFF Review – Brittany Runs a Marathon
Screened at Sydney Film Festival 2019 Jillian Bell is Brittany After winning the Audience Award at Sundance Film Festival at the beginning of the year, I couldn’t skip this at Sydney Film Festival. Brittany Runs a Marathonwas actually the first film I bought a ticket for at this year’s SFF. And what a great choice! The story is loosely based on the …
Review – Aladdin
“You seem to bring me the rough, but not the diamond.” – Jafar Mena Massoud and Marwan Kenzari Another year, another live-action remake of a Disney Classic. After global billion dollar box office-hit Beauty and the Beast, it didn’t take long before Disney to announce another ’90s animation was getting the treatment. Aladdin was released back in 1992, made history as being …