The point. If you like or hate Wes Anderson’s previous feature films, you will most likely like or hate The French Dispatch, which opens in Australian cinemas on Thursday 9 December 2021. Upon Anderson in general. So we come, at … Continue reading REVIEW: The French Dispatch (2021)
It’s the late 1960s and the Japanese film industry is in serious trouble. Audiences are drifting away en masse, tempted by the booming television industry or by American imports, and leaving Japanese film studios rapidly running out of income. One … Continue reading REVIEW: Orgies of Edo (1969)
If there is a spine to the history of American animation, against which all of the varying short and feature works can gather in some semblance of order, it is clearly the Walt Disney Animation Studios. Since Snow White and … Continue reading REVIEW: Encanto (2021)
The musician biopic is such a distinctive and strange genre of American film, one so formulaic that it by-and-large may as well be the one film. It simply shifts race, class, and gender from one release to the next. Each … Continue reading REVIEW: Respect (2021)
Movie remakes are not, in and of themselves, necessarily a bad thing. Given the passage of time, some stories benefit from being revisited or reimagined. Others provide new perspectives through being made in different countries or cultures. Sometimes a great … Continue reading REVIEW: The Hustle (2019)
Businessman Han Sang-soon (Lee Sung-min) comes home late from a workplace party to witness a brutal murder from his apartment window – and for the murderer to see him doing so. Keeping quiet to avoid becoming a target himself, he … Continue reading REVIEW: The Witness (2018)
Egon (Niels Schneider) is crown prince of the modern-day European kingdom of Letonia. Instead of applying himself to courtly duties, Egon spends much of his time drinking, smoking and loudly playing the drums. When he learns of the fabled kingdom … Continue reading REVIEW: Sleeping Beauty (2016)
New science fiction film Settlers is earnestly made, but struggles with both an overly-familiar story and a particularly grim tone throughout. It will likely find an appreciative niche audience, but mainstream success was honestly never an option. It is currently available … Continue reading REVIEW: Settlers (2021)
Another year, another Gamera movie. 1969 saw the Daiei studio continuing to haemorrhage funds as Japanese audiences abandoned the cinemas for television and imported American product. Were it not for their lucrative Gamera and Zatoichi franchises, the company would have already been insolvent. As it was, … Continue reading REVIEW: Gamera vs Guiron (1969)
Minato (Nana Mori) is a university student still living at home with her parents and her irritating step-brother Toru (Hokuto Matsumura). While helping a friend undertake a teen fashion shoot in Shibuya, Minato is caught by Toru posing in a … Continue reading JFF Review: Liar x Liar (2021)
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