As part of Australian distributor Imprint’s growing range of archive titles, there have been a number of excellent film noir boxed sets produced. These have provided our local market with some wonderful crime films in high definition for the first … Continue reading REVIEW: Framed (1947)
The makers of Norwegian disaster pictures The Wave (2015) and The Quake (2018) are back for a third cataclysmic round in John Andreas Anderson’s The Burning Sea (2021). There is nothing particularly innovative or inventive about Anderson’s film: a disaster strikes, one character is trapped and … Continue reading SFF REVIEW: The Burning Sea (2021)
Masaaki Yuasa has spent the last five years aggressively building a reputation as one of Japan’s most inventive and entertaining anime filmmakers. While he earned a healthy cult following with his 2004 feature debut Mindgame, it is through recent hits … Continue reading SFF REVIEW: Inu-Oh (2021)
Part Two Note that, as a review of Part Two, this review will understandably reference events in Part One. Caveat emptor, and so on. When going forward in reviewing Disney+ serial Obi-Wan Kenobi, it should be taken as read that … Continue reading TV REVIEW: Obi-Wan Kenobi 1.02
Go figure: you cannot easily watch James Cameron’s superlative film The Abyss (1989) on a streaming service – the closest you will get is the online stream of Australian pay television service Foxtel – but you can watch Juan Piquer Simon’s … Continue reading REVIEW: The Rift (1990)
It is a constant struggle for African cinema to receive the attention and exposure that it deserves, which is why it is such a pleasure to see this year’s Sydney Film Festival include Jean Luc Herbelot’s 2021 multi-genre feature Saloum. Herbelot … Continue reading SFF REVIEW: Saloum (2021)
Popular children’s cartoon Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers was a successful re-imagining of two legacy characters from Disney animation. A new feature film of the same name, which premiered recently on Disney+, re-imagines those characters once again. Despite some clever jokes and … Continue reading REVIEW: Chip & Dale: Rescue Rangers (2022)
Pretty much anybody that grew up in the English speaking world will have fond memories of Sesame Street, the American children’s television series beloved not only by toddlers and pre-schoolers but by their parents too. Launched in 1969, this educational program … Continue reading REVIEW: Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street (2020)
Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 action film Point Break is, as they say, “a keeper”. It is more than 30 years old, and yet there are things it still has to teach action movie directors today. Its visual sense and choreography, and particularly its … Continue reading REVIEW: Point Break (1991)
Here’s the thing about Matt Reeves’ The Batman: the film is great. It is impeccably cast with actors who absolutely shine in their roles. It is beautifully shot and wonderfully atmospheric. Michael Giacchino’s score dominates from end to end, like a mournful … Continue reading REVIEW: The Batman (2022)
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