In Review

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Film Review Jake Freeman Film Review Jake Freeman

Film Review: Blacklight

Blacklight certainly delivers on entertaining the audience and gives us the Liam Neeson action thriller flick that we have loved since Taken in 2008. However, nearly fourteen years have passed since then and the Liam Neeson over protective father/special ops/Rambo type guy is beginning to wane just a little. 

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Film Review Aimee Traficante Film Review Aimee Traficante

Film Review: Love You Like That

Love You Like That begins in the coastal town of Seafront Sands, the kind of small Australian town where everyone knows each other’s business, and any change in routine, such as the news of a mysterious woman washing up on Mim Beach naked, can send the entire town into a whirlwind.

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Film Review Zak Wheeler Film Review Zak Wheeler

Film Review: Nightmare Alley

Brewing over the course of the late 1930s to early 1940s, Nightmare Alley exposes the selfish pursuit of profits created by the ego of those which prey upon the needy, and the desperation of those who have nothing to lose.

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Film Review Eli Robinson Film Review Eli Robinson

Film Review: Drive My Car

What starts off as a fairly cold and staid experience slowly but surely takes shape, each subtle curve of the narrative shaving what could be a much more generic film in the hands of a lesser filmmaker into something beautiful.

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Film Review Eli Robinson Film Review Eli Robinson

Film Review: Benedetta

Benedetta balances its sexuality and violence with explorations of what those who seek power will do to get it, and what those in power will do to keep the peace, all set against the backdrop of the black plague.

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Film Review Nick Owens Film Review Nick Owens

Film Review: The Scary of Sixty-First

The Scary of Sixty-First, the feature directorial debut of Belarusian-American actress, filmmaker, and podcast host, Dasha Nekrasova, presents itself as two movies. It’s at once an earnest, self-important, mumblecore horror film about passive twenty-somethings being angry at the injustices of the world, or it’s a tongue-in-cheek parody of said pretentious low-budget horror films.

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Film Review Eli Robinson Film Review Eli Robinson

Film Review: Belfast

Belfast takes us on a walk down director Kenneth Branagh’s memory lane, telling the tale of an extraordinarily difficult and violent time in the history of Ireland through the innocent eyes of a child.

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Film Review Georgia Cerni Film Review Georgia Cerni

Film Review: The Hating Game

Lucy and Joshua are competitors more than they are colleagues, vying for the same promotion despite their respective personalities and brands of ambition. Despite their professional gripes, the mounting sexual tension between Lucy and Joshua eventuates in a full-fledged romance in and outside of the office.

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Film Review Nick Owens Film Review Nick Owens

Film Review: Parallel Mothers

Almodóvar effortlessly manages to create a complex narrative with two central characters that is still easy to follow, but does not offer to hold the audience’s hand, encouraging watchers to put the pieces together themselves, and possibly come to their own conclusions long before even the characters do.

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Film Review Zak Wheeler Film Review Zak Wheeler

Film Review: Scream

No longer will we see silly Shaggy from Scooby Doo stabbing his friend before getting stabbed himself… No, no, no. Scream will make you squirm as the knife twists in each subsequent teen.

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Film Review Nick Owens Film Review Nick Owens

Film Review: Don't Look Up

The story is of a group of scientists (lead by characters played by Leonardo DiCaprio & Jennifer Lawrence) who discover a large “planet-killer” comet is going to strike the earth in half a year, and the bureaucratic nightmare of trying to get the people in charge of the United States, and the world, to do something about it.

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Film Review Zak Wheeler Film Review Zak Wheeler

Film Review: Ghostbusters: Afterlife

When lasers fly from the Ghost Gun as the Ecto-1 shreds the shaking streets of Summerville, that’s when Afterlife shines brightest, with stunning practical effects instilling the same love of the original Ghostbusters appreciated immensely throughout Afterlife.

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Film Review Oscar Ragg Film Review Oscar Ragg

Film Review: Licorice Pizza

Licorice Pizza is a relatively plotless assortment of scenes, where around every corner lurks an inspired filmmaking flourish, often in what feels like a throwaway moment… whether it’s a perfect (and I mean perfect) soundtrack choice, or a genius series of cuts: all of a sudden you realise you’re seeing something magical.

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