Comedy

Nebraska

I have a strange relationship with Alexander Payne’s films. I never look forward to them or feel drawn to them in any way, but upon viewing, I absolutely love them… Read More
Those Gathered

Pinku director Imaoka Shinji (Underwater Love) gives us his own version of Richard Linklater’s Slacker, as we follow a string of characters in a series of vignettes, each focusing on… Read More
The Stuff

Larry Cohen’s ambitious horror satire on consumerism is far from his best work, but there’s still plenty to enjoy in his high concept tale of an alien white ooze that… Read More
3D Naked Ambition

Brimming with colloquial Hong Kong humour and plenty of bare flesh, Lee Kung-lok’s jolly romp through the Japanese AV (adult film) scene is slight yet entertaining fare, and likely to… Read More
REVIEW: The Wolf Of Wall Street

In their fifth screen collaboration, Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio produce the funniest work of their careers in this debauched and riotously indulgent black comedy depicting the rise and fall… Read More
The Man In The White Suit

Beautifully highlights the contradictions by which industry controls & impedes innovation for its own survival, and is also a delightful comedy about Alec Guinness’ penniless visionary fighting the system in… Read More
The Battery

An excellent example of how to do a low budget zombie movie right. Focus on character, forget about gore and FX. Great stuff. Read More
Hannah And Her Sisters

Excellent example of Allen’s great skill for writing great women characters. Hershey is both understated yet utterly desirable. And Caine! Top tier stuff. Read More
Detention

There’s a degree of method in the madness of Joseph Kahn’s all-in balls-out execution that’s quite commendable. Unwieldy fun. Read More
Zero Charisma

A brutally on-point depiction of social incompetency in nerd culture & the faux intelligence of hipster irony. It’s also funny. Read More
Curse of Chucky

Despite a decent turn from Fiona Dourif (daughter of Chucky’s voice actor Brad), Curse of Chucky is pretty lame. Lacks scares, laughs & efforts to link back to original fall… Read More
To Be Or Not To Be

A troupe of sub-par stage performers square off against the Nazis in occupied Poland circa 1942. By applying their skills of performance, disguise and suspension of disbelief they attempt to… Read More
Detective Downs

This breezy yet cineliterate noir tale is unique in that its central protagonist has downs syndrome. Fortunately the film avoids either poking fun at this or using it to emotionally… Read More
The Kings of Summer

The spirit of Rob Reiner’s Stand By Me lives on in Jordan Vogt-Roberts’ coming-of-age drama, in which two best friends abandon civilisation and opt to spend the summer living on… Read More
Can’t Hardly Wait

After being introduced to Ethan Embry by his Cheap Thrills director Evan Katz, I made a mental note to myself to watch his breakthrough role in 90s teen comedy Can’t… Read More
R100

The latest work of absurdist humour from Japanese comedian Matsumoto is extreme, even by his own bafflingly delightful standards. On the face of it, R100 is set-up as an outrageous… Read More
The Dirties

One of my favourite films of the year and winner of the Next Wave award at Fantastic Fest. Pitch black satire on high school, our media-saturated society & how quickly… Read More
Kids Police

Another one-gag movie from Fukuda Yuichi that gets by on the strength of its child actors long after the joke gets wearisome. Read More