Short Reviews

The Devils

Ken Russell’s 1971 masterpiece ranks as one of my favourite films of all-time and the opportunity to see it on the big screen with a Fantastic Fest audience was not… Read More
Escape From Tomorrow

THe story behind Randy Moore’s Escape From Tomorrow proves infinitely more interesting that what ends up on screen. Shot guerrilla-style without permission in Disneyland and Disneyworld, it is a nightmarish… Read More
Patrick

I haven’t seen the original version of Patrick, and had only heard of it thanks to Mark Hartley’s breakout documentary, Not Quite Hollywood. Here, Hartley delivers his first fictional feature,… Read More
Greatful Dead

Indie director Uchida Eiji looks to finally have scored a breakthrough hit with this darkly comic exploration of neglect, obsession and voyeurism that successfully mixes exploitation with an astute social… Read More
The Company You Keep

Robert Redford is reliably strong as the reclusive Weather Underground member who resurfaces decades later to get his daughter to safety and clear his name. Brit Marling continues her ascendancy… Read More
The Internship

The world is tiring of Vince Vaughn, and his reluctance to change up or expand his schtick isn’t helping his case much. Here he re-teams with his Wedding Crashers cohort… Read More
This Is The End

A strangely self-reflexive, self-indulgent, yet admittedly rather successful and repeatedly amusing comedy caper that sees some of the most popular comedians currently working in Hollywod today playing themselves at the… Read More
Elysium

South African filmmaker Neill Blomkamp teams up with Matt Damon for another slice of grungy, politcally charged science fiction, to follow up his impressive debut, District 9. The results, however,… Read More
My Lucky Star

After really enjoying Zhang Ziyi’s first foray into production, Sophie’s Revenge, I was certainly interested to see her return to the character for a second outing. However, My Lucky Star… Read More
Van Gogh

There is a lot of love out there for Maurice Pialat’s 1991 biopic, detailing the final weeks in the life of the famous Dutch master. While the cinematography constantly evokes… Read More
Dick Tracy

I was wholly unfamiliar with the character of Dick Tracy when Warren Beatty’s film graced our screens in 1990, but I went to see it anyway and remember being somewhat… Read More
Sleeping Beauty

Disney’s classic tale of beautiful maidens, wicked witches and dashing prince charmings ushered in a new era of animated filmmaking at a time when the entire industry was looking to… Read More
We Gotta Get Out of This Place

The feature debut from directorial siblings Simon and Zeke Hawkins is a tense and earthy film noir that wears its pulp influences proudly on its sleeve as it weaves a… Read More
Bad Milo

An intriguing premise is left under-developed in this lacklustre horror comedy that has aspirations towards Joe Dante and Frank Henenlotter. Ken Marino’s irritible bowel syndrome proves to be caused by… Read More
Out of Inferno 3D

The Pang Brothers have had a rocky time in recent years, but their Guangzhou-set update of The Towering Inferno, they have produced their best film in years. That’s not to… Read More
2 Guns

Incredibly convoluted but surprisingly entertaining buddy action comedy starring Mark Wahlberg and Denzel Washington as undercover agents from rival agencies, both out to crack a drug cartel who are initially… Read More
The Fall of the House of Usher

Roger Corman adapted a number of Edgar Allan Poe stories for the big screen, and frequently colloborated with horror icon Vincent Price. The Fall of the House of Usher proved… Read More
Moonraker

More prep work for an appearance on the Auteur Cast show meant revisiting one of the most ridiculous of all the Bond films. Roger Moore teams up with Lois Chiles’… Read More