From Jordan Low, a review of John Cassavetes 1977 psychological drama, Opening Night, about an alcoholic actress (as played by Gena Rowlands) who teeters on the edge of breakdown while preparing for the premiere of an upcoming play. … More A Retrospective Review: Opening Night (1977)
From Lucy Beltrami comes a review of Therapy Dogs, the 2022 Canadian documentary about high school students as made by 2019 Canadian high school students Ethan Eng and Justin Morrice. Following its screening and co-presentation by Film Society at film collective Static Vision’s Metamorphoses festival in October. … More Therapy Dogs Review
From Lucy Beltrami comes a review of director Jacques Tourneur, screenwriter DeWitt Bodeen and producer Val Lewton’s atmeowspheric American horror classic from 1942, Cat People, as well as a review of Paul Schrader’s 1982 remake of the same name. Following their showing at film collective Static Vision’s Metamorphoses festival in October. … More A Retrospective Review: Cat People (1942 and 1982)
From Shaunak Wanikar comes a review and recommendation of L’Économie du couple, aka After Love, Belgian director Joachim Lafosse’s bittersweet drama about a married couple’s prolonged break up. … More A Retrospective Review: L’Économie du couple (2016)
Happy Halloween reader! To mark the occasion, from Jordan Low comes an assessment, in chronological order, of the entire directed feature filmography of David Gordon Green, the American writer-director behind the just concluded Halloween (1978) sequel trilogy (2018-2022). Though, that’s just the tip of the eclectic iceberg. … More The Films Of David Gordon Green
From Lucy Beltrami comes a review of the Hellraiser reboot summoned to life by director David Bruckner. Open it up to find out if this latest entry in the supernatural horror franchise brings pleasure, pain, or a bit of both. … More Hellraiser Review
From Scott Day comes a review of American rom-com Rosaline, a retelling of Romeo and Juliet from a new (old) perspective, as directed by Karen Maine and starring Kaitlyn Dever. Is the film “The all-seeing sun / ne’er saw her match since first the world begun”? Or does it pale in comparison? To find out, read on. … More Rosaline Review
Following its acclaimed debuts at Cannes and MIFF earlier this year, Scott Day reviews legendary South Korean, Oldboy (2003) and The Handmaiden (2016) director Park Chan-wook’s neo-noir romance thriller, in cinemas from October 20th: Decision to Leave. To find out if he thinks it lives up to the hype and is worth making the decision to leave the house to see, just make the decision to click … More Decision to Leave Review
Ahead of Film Society’s week 11 screening of Princess Mononoke this Friday afternoon, and as Melbourne is wracked by extreme wet weather, from Zoe McLeod comes a reflection on Hayao Miyazaki and Studio Ghibli’s wondrously animated 1997 film about a conflict between humanity and nature, and a case for it as the greatest environmentalist film ever made. … More Princess Mononoke: The Ultimate Environmentalist Film
From Scott Day comes a review of one of this year’s, and perhaps this century’s, most challenging and controversial films, Australian writer and director Andrew Dominik’s (fictional) Marilyn Monroe biopic: Blonde. Starring Ana de Armas. … More Blonde Review
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