Featuring Spielberg at His Most Affectionate, A Classic Modern Musical and A Coming of Age Story for All Time Following on from Part 1 of our belated but still totally relevant list of the best films that came out last year, here’s Part 2 in all its cinematic glory. Sidenote: as we were particularly thrilled …
Conflict, Confusion and Connection in Somersault In the same way that Miley Cyrus wears scrunchies and pigtails with thigh-high latex, Somersault perfectly captures that same contradiction between sexuality and juvenility. Heidi (Abbie Cornish) makes a mistake by “fooling around” with her mother’s boyfriend, in her fumbling search for affection and adulthood. When she’s sprung, the …
Featuring An Animated Treasure, A German Dramedy and An Alien Invasion Film Unlike Any Other The best thing about being a movie fan living in Australia is that – with the considerable interval between North American releases and subsequent availability in the southern hemisphere – you’re always behind the curve, so you’ll never find yourself …
Jordan Peele’s Foray Into Horror Leans on the Humour Sparingly While Indulging in its Social Commentary Get Out is not a subtle film. Every conversation throughout the movie is not so much underpinned by racial tension as it is openly inviting discomfort at how clumsily people (and, most specifically, white Americans) try to talk …
Bitches Gonna Bitch, Stitches Gonna Stitch Taking “small town hole” status to new extremes is Dungatar, the childhood home of Myrtle Dunnage (Kate Winslet). Within the first ten seconds of The Dressmaker the viewer understands that she had left, but is now returned, and that a ripple of memories lie unsettled, ready to be …
The Best Rapper Alive Returns With a Patchy But Strong Fourth LP, Once Again Affirming His Legendary Status Listening to DAMN. over the course of the Easter long weekend, I couldn’t help feeling similarly to how I did two years ago when To Pimp a Butterfly dropped. Though there’s very little in the music here like …
His Follow Up to 2015’s To Pimp a Butterfly and Last Year’s untitled. unmastered. is Now Available to Stream Kendrick Lamar – probably the greatest living rapper and, by extension, one of the best ever – has just released his new album, DAMN. You can stream it now on Spotify and Apple Music.
When You Give Advice That Turns Out to Be Shitty and They Come to Get Payback If a good thriller makes you just as excited as it makes you bite off your fingernails, then you’ll love Money Monster. The key facts you need to know? Live television. Narcissistic, rich presenter. Gunman. Hostage situation. Bombs. …