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'Bones and All' Review - A Love Story that Truly Bites

By Jessica Seychell
24/11/22
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'The Integrity of Joseph Chambers' Review - A Cautionary Tale

By Patrick Scott
20/08/22

Robert Machoain’s The Integrity of Joseph Chambers, his second collaboration with Clayne Crawford follows suit from his previous hit, The Killing of Two Lovers, with a brooding, introspective examination of masculinity with fatal consequences.

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'Flux Gourmet' Review - Culinary Style with a Pinch of Substance

By Patrick Scott
05/08/22

Filmmaker Peter Strickland has developed a shorthand for horror and tension in his cinematic oeuvre with a fetishistic soundscape of food, objects and even the idiosyncrasies of characters. His latest film, Flux Gourmet, sardonically offers a dual perspective on food as pleasure and pain.

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'Benediction' Review - An Uneven Look at a Queer Poet's Life in Early 1900s

By Jessica Seychell
09/06/22

Much like the life of its muse, Benediction tosses between the translucent and opaque, the subtle and overt.

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'The Innocents' Review - Little Shop of Horrors

By Nick Janks
20/05/22

The Innocents sees a small group of kids with telekinetic powers do some horrible things.

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'The Northman' Review - Violent Viking Revenge Drama Lacks Heart

By Nick Janks
22/04/22

Robert Eggers’ The Northman might lack heart, but it’s undoubtedly hard to look away from, with unbridled energy and machismo not seen since the action-movie glory days of the 80s and 90s.

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'Ambulance' Review - Full Throttle Bayhem

By Rhys Parsons
07/04/22

Ambulance sees the return of the true summer popcorn movie with an easy-to-follow story, outrageous chase scenes and explosions, and even a little bit of melodrama.

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'Memoria' Review - A Mosaic of Memories

By Jessica Seychell
02/04/22

A film that is experienced more than viewed, Memoria brings slow cinema to the forefront of arthouse films.

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'Friends and Strangers' Review - All Bark with No Bite

By Jessica Seychell
17/03/22

As ever-changing Australian Iconography is scattered across every wall, Friends and Strangers poses the question, what if it begins to stare back?

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'Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time' Review

By Keagan Federici
26/02/22

The effect of watching Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time is the same as not watching it.

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'The Greenhouse' Review - A Tangible Grief

By Jessica Seychell
19/02/22

More a symbolic than a literal figure, The Greenhouse is a head-trip where grief flourishes as vividly as ever.

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'The Power of the Dog' Review - An Untraditional Modern Classic Western

By Keagan Federici
29/01/22

Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog sees the Kiwi director again displaying her under-praised and little-spoken genius.

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'Spencer' Review – The Divine and the Disgusting

By Jessica Seychell
21/01/22

“Keep noise to a minimum, they can hear you” is the overarching phrase that haunts the retelling of the tragedy in Spencer.

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'Nightmare Alley' Review - GDT's Film Noir Finds Varied Success

By James WF Roberts
21/01/22

Guillermo del Toro directs the latest adaptation of Nightmare Alley based on the 1946 novel by William Lindsay Gresham.

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'Don't Look Up' Review - A Preachy Mess with Low Satirical Value

By Keagan Federici
04/01/22

In the Greek myths, Cassandra, the daughter of King Priam of Troy, was afflicted by the gods with the curse that she would have accurate knowledge of future events but that nobody would ever believe what she said. Scientists in movies are the modern Cassandras.

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