In Review
Welcome to In Review! Check out the latest reviews across film, TV, theatre and so much more…
Film Review: Eternals
Eternals toys with the idea of human evolution, tracing our timeline through its century-spanning plot and pondering the effect of nature vs nurture on a grand scale.
Film Review: Palazzo Di Cozzo
Palazzo di Cozzo will entrance those with an interest in Melbourne history, furniture enthusiasts, and just any wog who recognises Cozzo as the face of the migrant success story.
MQFF 2021 Film Review: Being Bebe
Bebe. Zahara. Benet. An iconic name that inspires love, reverence, and tonnes of applause, but underneath the teased wigs and sequined dresses, who is the person behind the name?
MQFF 2021 Film Review: My Girlfriend is the Revolution
My Girlfriend is the Revolution is growing pains personified.
Film Review: Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn
The premise on paper is at least vaguely interesting – a high school teacher named Emi (Katia Pascariu) has a sex tape leaked online and is spread amongst the school.
MQFF 2021 Film Review: Colours of Tobi
Perhaps what director Alexa Bakony does best with her documentary Colours of Tobi, is making us forget that she was even there.
MQFF 2021 Film Review: Dramarama
Director Jonathon Wysocki’s Dramarama set wistfully in 1994, tells the ever-bittersweet story of a group of teenagers, Gene, Ally, Rose, Claire and Oscar, as they have one final night together before they each part ways for college.
Film Review: The Suicide Squad
This is a high-risk mission, life or death, and I want to see someone’s head blow up!
Film Review - Disclosure
Disclosure is a confronting tale about two close couples whose friendships implode through the allegation that one of their children was sexually abused by the other.
Film Review: The Ice Road
Set in the icy tundra of Manitoba Canada, The Ice Road is a race-against-time action thriller that pits Liam Neeson not only against thin ice roads that could crack at any minute, but also corporate greed.
Film Review: Fanny Lye Deliver'd
Fanny Lye Deliver’d is a quasi-Western set just after the English Civil War, circa 1657, in period of moral and sexual liberation, as well as barbaric violence.
Film Review: Dating Amber
Dating Amber centres on Eddie and Amber, both teenage homosexuals who fake a romantic relationship together at school to convince their tormenting classmates they are straight and otherwise ‘normal’.
Film Review: Little Joe
No film in recent memory has made the experience of sitting with a knot in your stomach so enthralling and intriguing.
Film Review: The Sparks Brothers
A wonderfully enthusiastic and enjoyable tribute to the esoteric stylings, and wide-ranging influence, of the band Sparks.
Film Review: Minamata
Minamata’s painterly composition paired with its desperate, clawing story of inequality and the exposing of truths creates a multilayered masterpiece that is equal in its depiction of beauty and pain.
Film Review: First Love
Amidst the turbulence and wildness, First Love is fundamentally a story of the quiet good and maniacal evil that inheres in the world.
Film Review: Ema
Ema unveils itself as a political statement through the microcosm of its titular character. However, it’s crowning achievement is the immersive kinetic energy created from the phenomenal dance choreography, pumping soundtrack and beautiful cinematography.
Film Review: June Again
If you want a film that takes an honest look at familial relationships, which breaks your heart and proceeds to mend it in 100 minutes, then June Again is your best bet.
Film Review: Twist
Don’t immediately write Twist off as just another modern re-telling of a classic, only further proof that the film industry is well and truly out of new and fresh ideas. New and fresh is exactly what director Martin Owen achieves with this re-vamped return to everyone’s favourite orphan (sorry Annie).