I am a film reviewer and blogger from Perth, Western Australia. I fell in love with cinema at an early age when I saw my first horror film and realised the impact movies can have on a person. For me it was terrifying me into an almost catatonic state. Later it was how much they made me laugh and cry. I'll watch pretty much anything and love indulging in a good film discussion.
The inspirational story at the centre of the often times harrowing Unbroken has almost been overshadowed by the presence of the director at the helm. Having been directed by one of Hollywood’s hottest properties has almost distracted from this true story of the endurance of human strength and spirit. Despite a trailer campaign …
An uneasy weave of drama and thriller, Before I Go To Sleep follows a very Memento-esque journey of one amnesiac’s attempts to piece together information about their traumatic past. The hook here is that the amnesiac is a housewife and, similar to Memento, the new memories she makes in her sleuthing don’t last very …
Anyone going to a jazz performance in a theatre or bar is more than likely there to relax, take in the smooth music, and enjoy a bit of culture. Those clubs or events are portrayed on film as a little haven away from the ear smashing noise and nerve shredding stress of the real word, a place to retreat to in order to unwind. However…
Imagine how many talented artists have gone unrecognised throughout the centuries and how much art that has gone unappreciated. Without the right people with the right connections “discovering” such talent and hanging it on gallery walls, recording voices for the airwaves, placing it on stage or projecting it on to the big screen, there must be countless paintings…
The below- freezing conditions, mind-affecting isolation and destructive winter snowstorms - why would anyone want to live in Antarctica? And the ones that have braved those horrible conditions, who the heck are these people? With all the possible scientific angles on that southern icy continent covered in various documentaries already, these questions remained…
To describe Cold In July as being like five films rolled into one may cause eyebrows to raise, spark immediate concerns of an unfocussed mess or trigger assumptions that it was like a Twilight Zone rip-off. However, it is none of these things. There is one storyline, yet it takes us through a gamut of styles, emotions and twists that would indicate director Jim Mickle and his…
Going in to Charlie Victor Romeo knowing that there will not be a rosey resolution or a happy ending for the people depicted means an immediate feeling of unease in the pit of your stomach. Like any person with a fear of flying that steps onto a plane fighting anxiety and constantly wiping their sweaty palms on the leg of their jeans …
In a time when under-age girls are being objectified by a male director’s lense, female characters are written as merely a love interest or wet blanket for their male counterpart or generally given less to do in film, Happy Christmas is a refreshing exception to the misogynistic rule. Even though it was penned and directed by a guy, it boasts not one, not …
By the fourth installment, it seems almost pointless to complain about how loud, obnoxious and vacuous the whole experience is with these Transformers films, and yet it is almost impossible to stop. Destruction obsessed director Michael Bay seems hell bent on leaving no building un-demolished, no metropolis …
Eighty minutes of close ups of the handsome and talented Tom Hardy might be a lot of people’s cup of tea. Not is he easy on the eye but he has been known to command the screen even when unrecognisable (The Dark Knight Rises). But to make a narrative out of a string of lingering shots of the England-born lad - therein lies the …