I haven't had the best luck with Tim Winton. I’ll admit that I haven’t read any of his books (far as I can remember, at any rate), and w...

With how many films I get through every year, marketing material and trailers in particular don’t really have an effect on me nowadays. Most...

Pitching something as ‘ The Breakfast Club , but set in the Outback’ is pretty much a done deal for a filmgoer like myself. One of the reaso...

‘Elevated horror’ as a sub-genre heading has its elitist undertones and occasionally nebulous usage, but there is still a certain aesthetic ...

Two people can look at the same image and come away with two completely different understandings of what the image is. This is a fundamental...

Much like with when I looked at The Witch Of Kings Cross back in 2021, this is a documentary about an Aussie artist that I didn’t know anyt...

After landing on my Best of 2020 list with the chilling and rather emblematic The Assistant , I was definitely curious to see what writer/d...

Coming off of the decent if inconsistent Tales From Sanctuary City trilogy, director Ricard Cuss ó ’s latest is a major switch-up, both t...

There is something especially Aussie about a small-budget independent local production finding its way into the modern trend for exorcism ho...

I got into this when I looked at Arctic a few years back, but now more than ever, it has been cool to see so many YouTubers making it in th...

Considering the summer heat is officially kicking in down here in Australia, I’m probably in the most ideal state of mind to engage with a f...

Something keeps telling me I shouldn’t be as down on Westerns as I have been in the past. The reason for its cultural and artistic appeal, e...

  Studying a thing and being able to do that thing aren’t the same. As much as the phrase “Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach” genuin...

There is no such thing as being completely free from outside influence. For as much as people, especially nowadays, just love to extol how ...

Well, we struck gold with an Aussie production last time, so let’s go for another one. A suicidal teenager (Jordan Dulieu’s Jay) meets term...

This film has a lot in common with Bodies Bodies Bodies . It’s a black comedy-horror slasher type deal that takes the piss out of social me...

The original Wog Boy is one of my favourite Aussie films ever. It is everything I love about the self-deprecating Aussie sense of humour, us...

Well, after spending the last several reviews neck-deep in the weirder sides of genre cinema, I figure it’s about time to wind things down a...

Whenever a film’s discourse involves comparisons between it and the works of Terence Malick, that’s a pretty big red flag that I shouldn’t b...

(cw: rape, childhood trauma) The story of this film is deceptively simple, and truth be told, not a lot technically ‘happens’ over the c...