Relic ★★★
For women in horror films, trauma is fated. It is their bodies at the mercy of narrative evil; their painContinue Reading
Tag: Australia
Babyteeth ★★
Coming-of-age dramas have been around for decades so at this point it’s hard for any of them to break newContinue Reading
The Scapegoats of War in Australia’s Breaker Morant
It is hard to not watch Bruce Beresford‘s Breaker Morant and think of Michael Anderson‘s Conduct Unbecoming or the moreContinue Reading
The Invisible Man ★★★½
Fittingly, Leigh Whannell‘s The Invisible Man is both about what can and cannot be seen. On the face of CeceliaContinue Reading
The King ★★
Both Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir Kenneth Branagh have previously directed and starred in adaptations of William Shakespeare‘s Henry V.Continue Reading
The Nightingale ★★★½
The last we had seen from Australian filmmaker Jennifer Kent was the 2014 horror sensation, The Babadook. After its success,Continue Reading
Most Anticipated of August 2019
Ian Floodgate: The first film out this month that I would like to take a look at is The Nightingale,written andContinue Reading
Hotel Mumbai ★★★
In 2008, a series of terrorist attacks occurred in the city of Mumbai. 10 terrorists from an organization based inContinue Reading
Mary Magdalene ★
One of many films on the Weinstein Company’s slate before its collapse is finally getting its stateside release. Ironically justContinue Reading
Hereditary, and the Independent Horror Renaissance
“You know what Freud says about the nature of horror? He says it’s when the home becomes unhomelike. Unheimlich.” –Continue Reading
