The Witch Of Kings Cross (2021) - Movie Review

Time for a bit of local colour. This is an Aussie documentary by Sonia Bible about Rosaleen Norton, an artist and provocateur whom the media had dubbed ‘The Witch Of Kings Cross’. Kings Cross itself is quite an infamous stretch of the Sydney landscape, so it really says something when Norton’s exploits were enough for that kind of honorific. And as someone who knew sweet F.A. about her going into this, I found myself fascinated by what this doco had to offer.

Midsommar (2019) - Movie Review

It’s gotten to the point where I take my extended hobby of film critique so seriously that I’ve come to regard films I'm not able to nail down from a single viewing as films that bested me. That defeated me. That managed to break my usual one-and-down reviewing format and took me a second viewing to understand the kind of genius I'm dealing with. Ari Aster's Hereditary is one of those films for me.

It is seriously one of the best horror films of all time, and one I retroactively consider to be in the top 5 for the best films of 2019. It admittedly took a certain YouTuber’s hot take for me to properly get my head around it (link here for said hot take; she explains it far better than I can), but it also turned into a rather humbling experience overall. I don’t plan on making the same mistake twice, however, so as I take a look at Ari Aster’s follow-up, I’m going to give it its full due.