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The moment Freaky Tales kicks off, you know you’re in for a ride. It’s 1987 in Oakland, where neon signs flicker, punk music thrashes, and danger lurks in every alleyway. But this isn’t just any ‘80s…
A Working Man certainly requires a lot of work to sit through. Following an ex-black ops agent turned construction worker searching for his boss's kidnapped daughter; director David Ayer reunites…
This letter is not meant as a complaint, but a stark and sobering reality check on what it truly means to be an Australian filmmaker today. I want to pull back the curtain on the perceived glamour sur…
90s All Over Me takes inspiration from 80s All Over, the Drew McWeeny/Scott Weinberg podcast that attempted to review every major film release of the 80s one month at a time; that podcast ended circa…
At the 2016 Sundance Film Festival in discussion with Netscout’s Jim McNiel, Werner Herzog made the statement that in the next four and a half thousand years, ‘no computer will make a film as good as…
Alex Scharfman’s debut feature Death of a Unicorn riffs on three main themes: a satire about the venality of the ultra-rich, a hyper-violent creature feature, and a Spielbergian fractured and healed p…
Oh, Canada marks a change of pace for Paul Schrader following the completion of his Man in a Room trilogy (First Reformed, The Card Counter, The Master Gardener). Still, it isn’t difficult to see what…
The women sit sweltering on the beach with their burkas black and shrouding. Only metres away the men swim and laugh. Under the robes are dangerous objects: guns and bare legs that long to stand in th…
Guan Hu’s Black Dog is set in 2008 when China is set to host the Olympic Games. In an effort to appear progressive to Western eyes, the Chinese government is focussing its attention on Beijing and cre…
In the sun-dappled town of Ushimado, a small revolution is unfolding—one that takes place not in bustling streets or grand arenas, but in the quiet corners of a sacred shrine. Kazuhiro Soda’s The Cats…
When it comes to outlining the plot or character traits of Jellyfish, the feature debut from West Aussie based filmmaker Giles Chan, it’s hard to escape critically applied terms such as ‘slacker’ or ‘…
Combining the writer of Goodfellas, the director of Bugsy, and starring Robert De Niro twice, The Alto Knights, based on the relationship between two New York Mafioso - Frank Costello (De Niro) and Vi…