Master director Ridley Scott bounces back from Prometheus mess with cohesive, tense instalment of Alien franchise. By Nick Milligan Prometheus, British director Ridley Scott’s grand return to not only the science fiction genre but […]
JORDAN PEELE HOLDS UP A BLACK MIRROR TO WHITE LIBERAL CONDESCENSION IN THE FUNNY AND TERRIFYING HORROR SATIRE GET OUT. By Nick Milligan “I would have voted for Obama for a […]
Kristen Stewart attempts to contact the spirit of her deceased twin brother in French director Olivier Assayas’ haunting rumination on grief, glamour and the male gaze, Personal Shopper. By Nick […]
White robes. Ritualistic daggers. Scattered and mutilated corpses. Ungodly surgical procedures. Creeping dread. A slow descent into hell. No, I’m not describing Australia’s public healthcare system – but rather the bloody […]
With the news this week that a Stockholm firm are implanting their staff with a microchip that will let them through locked office doors and use printers, it seems that […]
The 1991 Disney animated version of Beauty and the Beast held pride of place amongst my childhood VHS collection, and was on high rotation alongside Aladdin and Fantasia during those halcyon […]
TEENAGE FANCLUB Twilight at Taronga Friday, March 10, 2017 “This one’s for the elephants,” says Norman Blake in his soft Scottish brogue. The Teenage Fanclub co-frontman is referring to the […]
When Tom Hiddleston’s charming cardboard hero predicts the ways in which the members of a planned expedition to an unchartered island will die – “rain, heat, disease-carrying flies” – he […]
The critical and financial divide between Hollywood blockbusters and small budget dramas widened further in 2016, with Manchester by the Sea (made for $8.5m) and Moonlight (only $5m) the two front […]
HIDDEN FIGURES Director: Theodore Melfi Rating: 3/5 When Hollywood’s not unashamedly rehashing the ideas of old, it’s desperately seeking forgotten tales from history – small but important stories that never […]
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