In Review
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Film Review - The Pope’s Exorcist
While The Pope's Exorcist won't be everyone's cup of tea, for horror fans willing to drop their guard a little bit and embrace a film that's more silly than scary, it's just good, dumb fun.
Film Review - AIR
A true testament to the belief in one’s talent and potential, AIR celebrates the story of how some commonly unknown underdogs saw something in someone that led to one of the biggest and most profitable sportswear partnerships of all time – and it is an endlessly entertaining and enjoyable watch to boot.
Fantastic Film Fest 2023 Review - Beaten to Death
Beaten to Death is an uncompromising and particularly nasty slice of Ozploitation that mostly delivers on the bluntness of its title, with a few neat cinematic tricks up its sleeve.
Fantastic Film Fest 2023 Review - The Outwaters
The Outwaters is a found-footage horror film that takes the genre to new extremes of experimentation.
Film Review - Evil Dead Rise
Lee Cronin's latest stab Evil Dead Rise carves out new horizons for the horror franchise, while still boasting enough of the strengths of what came before.
Film Review - Tetris
Who knew a story about a video game where bricks fall from the sky could be so interesting?
Fantastic Film Fest 2023 Review - Zillion
Zillion tells the story of the exhilarating rise and fall of visionary entrepreneur Frank Verstraeten, the man responsible for creating and owning – for a time – Belgium’s most chaotically electric nightclub.
Film Review - The Super Mario Bros. Movie
Story comes second and spectacle takes centre stage in The Super Mario Bros. Movie.
Fantastic Film Fest 2023 Review - Quantum Cowboys
Quantum Cowboys is a bold expedition into the Wild West, the mind-boggling multiverse, and the very capacity and parameters of the cinematic form itself.
Film Review - John Wick: Chapter 4
Like its predecessors, Chapter 4 indulges in its extravagance unapologetically and gives us some of the best action scenes not only in the franchise, but in cinema as a whole.
Feature - Fantastic Film Festival Australia 2023 Program Launch/D&D: Honour Among Thieves
Fantastic Film Festival Australia is back in town, promising cinema without restraints.
Film Review - Scream VI
We've gotten particularly nasty Ghostfaces two years in a row, but since their creator's passing, the actual films seem trapped in a creative rut, doomed to sacrifice the slick edge that the series was once celebrated for in service of broad appeal.
Film Review - Pearl
If you’re a fan of Pearl’s previous instalment X and expect it to have the same gritty, slasher, exploitation elements to the story, then you may have to limit your expectations for this film.
Film Review - Living
Oliver Hermanus’ Living is a film that doesn’t ask for much. It simply wants the audience to observe.
Short Film Review - 2023 Oscar Nominated Short Films (Animated)
Another stellar line-up of the most imaginative pieces of art and cinema has to offer!
Film Review - To Leslie
To Leslie is a very old-fashioned human drama; a straightforward character study with modest ambitions and a complete disinterest in modern trappings of spectacle, metacommentary, or narrative obfuscation.
Film Review - All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
All the Beauty is this wonderful study of the marginal, of someone with a heart uncorroded by time in the halls of power, who leverages the success of their life’s work to take on a pure, irredeemable evil.
Film Review - Empire of Light
Despite Ward and Colman’s impressive performances, and some beautiful Roger Deakins cinematography, Empire of Light is unfortunately weighed down by a messy screenplay that can’t untangle itself before the credits.
Europa Europa Film Festival 2022 Film Review - Amanda
Writer-Director Carolina Cavalli’s debut Italian feature film Amanda follows the titular character as she sets about aggressively re-befriending her long-lost childhood friend turned recluse Rebecca.