Two young girls, Jin and Bin, are unexpectedly sent to live with their aunt while their mother leaves to find their absent father. Before leaving she gives her daughters a piggy bank: when they behave, their aunt will give them … Continue reading REVIEW: Treeless Mountain (2008)
Penguin Highway, a 2018 animated feature based on the Tomihiko Morimi novel, represents the best and worst of anime. On the one hand it boasts a richly developed and wonderfully imaginative story that boasts both clever ideas and a warm, … Continue reading REVIEW: Penguin Highway (2018)
Gretel & Hansel is a weirdly mispromoted film. It was released in American theatres at the beginning of 2020 before finally making its way to global audiences – including Australia – in the middle of the coronavirus pandemic. It seems such … Continue reading REVIEW: Gretel & Hansel (2020)
Give a horror movie franchise enough instalments and it will be dragged into an endless loop: Friday the 13th, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Saw, Hellraiser – name your franchise, and sooner or later Hollywood will creep around again and … Continue reading REVIEW: Halloween (2018)
Just as the Californian town of Antonio Bay prepares to celebrate its 100th anniversary a supernatural fog envelops the town, bringing with it the ghosts of those murdered a century ago by Antonio Bay’s founders. The ghosts are out for … Continue reading REVIEW: The Fog (1980)
1967 New England: high school graduate Susannah Kaysen (Winona Ryder) suffers a nervous breakdown and takes a drug overdose. Admitted into psychiatric care, she finds herself embedded in a unfamiliar environment with a group of young women – each suffering … Continue reading REVIEW: Girl, Interrupted (1999)
Sam Raimi is a widely liked director of genre pictures; most audiences will know him for either his Evil Dead or Spider-Man movies. Wedged in-between, however, are a number of less famous films. Darkman, released back in 1990, is a personal favourite. It was the … Continue reading REVIEW: Darkman (1990)
It has taken a long while for Woody Allen’s A Rainy Day in New York to become available to Australian viewers. Shot back in 2017, its 2018 global release was cancelled by Amazon at the height of the “Me Too” movement and … Continue reading REVIEW: A Rainy Day in New York (2019)
We need to talk about Bill Paxton. He was a regular fixture of 1980s and 1990s cinema, more often than not playing a supporting role, more often than not in some genre-based action film or sci-fi thriller. He was widely … Continue reading REVIEW: Frailty (2001)
There is now a decades-long relationship between Hollywood and videogames. It has been clear since the early 1990s that the production design, settings, and characters of the most popular videogames have the potential to be transformed into commercial hits. In … Continue reading REVIEW: Sonic the Hedgehog (2020)
