From that title alone, I was on for this movie. I say that - frankly - I struggled with writer-director Jane Schoenbrun’s previous features. Seeing I Saw the TV Glow, I felt like the old, tediously heterosexual guy on the outside looking in, knowing a younger crowd would absolutely love it and get it on … Continue reading REVIEW: Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
Category: Horror
A kids’ horror-comedy. To make a film that attempts to satisfy such a vast array of tastes and emotional needs sets a bar so high it’s like scaffolding on the moon, and yet Aardman Animations makes the whole endeavour look like a total cakewalk. But then that is almost the Bristolian animation studio’s raison d’être: … Continue reading REVIEW Shaun the Sheep: The Beast of Mossy Bottom
*This article is part of a two-part series 1925: The Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney, was Universal Studios’ biggest movie of the year. Budgeted at two million dollars, it was in production for damn near two years (an extravagantly long gestation for the time) and would feature the grandest sets, the most lavish … Continue reading Phantom of the Phantom of the Opera: Part 1
First things first, points off for the film's dull title. Seriously, I can’t help but think that part of the reason there were two people in the cinema was the uninspired name of what turned out to be a spectacular movie. “Ah but there’s a double meaning!” Yes, it’s also the name of the small … Continue reading REVIEW: HOPE
If it feels like women’s issues are on the front lines right now, you’re probably right. But truthfully, they’ve been brewing under the surface for decades, probably ever since we started demanding the right to vote and our own bank accounts. There are countless films dealing with the struggles women have faced in the world: … Continue reading Mum, I’m Alien Pregnant: A Goopy Kiwi Sci-Fi Comedy
To even skim one’s memory of Sam Neill is to realise that he truly was a totemic presence in cinema, not just for New Zealand, but for the global cinema community. Sir Sam Neill 14 Sept 1947 - 13 July 2026 He was, in the eyes of the public, both an actor and a movie … Continue reading Under His Spell: Sam Neill’s Horror Movies