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The Troubled Musical Tribute to ‘Amy’
This review was originally published by The Film Experience. Given what director Asif Kapadia was able to accomplish with the otherwise (to me) uninteresting world of vroom vroom speed racing in Senna,...
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Putting on the Ritz with Magic Mike XXL
This review is reworked from the original featured at SameSame. Channing Tatum is back with his buddies – and minus his shirt – and they’re going on the road in Magic Mike XXL. Let’s start for a moment...
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Lawrence Johnston’s Latest Buzzes Bright with Neon
It takes a special filmmaker to do what Lawrence Johnston does. There are certainly no Australian documentarians working today that I can think of doing what he does. He takes subjects of such a niche...
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A Film is a Naked Director
It’s impossible for Les Blank’s A Poem is a Naked Person to not be taken in by audiences as above all a time capsule. Emerging in 2015, 40 years after its initial completion due to legal and personal...
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Playing it Safe on the Streets of Melbourne
Play it Safe feels like a breath of fresh air amidst the Australian films of this and recent years. It’s a not a great film, but it’s an encouraging and admirable one that feels like it is attempting...
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Angry as a ‘Cut Snake’
This review was originally published on Same Same. The crime drama has become the de facto Australian genre of choice. Whether we like it or not, local film and television creators are infatuated with...
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‘Tab Hunter Confidential’
This review was originally published on Same Same. What famous Hollywood actors might we be seeing documentaries about in 40 or 50 years’ time discussing how they kept themselves in the closet for fear...
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This Film is a ‘Nasty Baby’
This review was original published at Same Same. If you’re unaware of the works of Sebastian Silva, then Nasty Baby is probably a good place to start. His best film yet, and certainly his most...
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Spear Ought To Be a Must See in This Age of Diversity
Stephen Page’s Spear is the most extraordinary of dance musicals. Something completely and utterly new in Australian cinema. A work of such unique flavour that it’s hardly surprising to see it released...
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You’re Killing Me a Scary, Gorgeous Good Time
This review originally appeared on Same Same. “He’s not scary, he’s gorgeous.” In another movie, a darker more serious movie, a line like this by George about his new mysterious boyfriend Joe may be...
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