The attempt to remake classic 1980’s horror movies has seen many misfires with the Halloween reboot finale Halloween Ends, The Thing remake no one talks about and the Nightmare on Elm Street remake being prime examples. The reboot of the Evil Dead franchise with Evil Dead: Rise in 2023 was, however, more promising. At first, the filmmaker’s decision to completely
Read moreMasters Of The Universe loosely remakes the very dicey 1987 Dolph Lundgren film as a Thor Ragnarok-style pisstaking action/ fantasy/ comedy. Within the scope of its juvenile ambition this film works occasionally but not often enough. Masters follows the adventures of Adam Glenn (Nicholas Galitzine) aka He-Man a refugee from the planet Eternia which has been taken over by the
Read moreThis year we’ve seen two iconic American directors create films completely unlike anything else in their back catalogue. We had Jim Jarmusch’s subtle but insightfully human Mother, Father, Sister, Brother which thankfully avoided any of his characteristic attempts at ironic cool and now we have Steven Soderbergh’s very British The Christopher’s which is about as far as we could get
Read moreDon’t be put off by the title, Hokum is a superbly creepy, atmospheric and inventive supernatural horror film that, without being too derivative, evokes classics such as The Shining. While this film employs familiar haunted house or in this case haunted hotel tropes, its writer director Damian McCarthy plays with these to craft a skin crawling experience that impressively promotes
Read moreWarwick Thornton is arguably Australia’s finest contemporary film director. With works such as Sampson and Delilah and Sweet Country he has crafted unflinching, gritty, yet poetic and masterfully constructed films celebrating First Nations Peoples while laying bare the often brutal prejudice inflicted on them. His latest film, Wolfram is a sequel of sorts to Sweet Country as Philomac (this time
Read moreThe Sheep Detectives is a very sweet, charming, family friendly mix of whodunit and anthropomorphised (CGI) animal comedy. Evoking Babe, Knives Out and Toy Story it would be hard for this film to go wrong and it doesn’t. Set in an idealised version of the English countryside in the village of Denbrook, the film stars Hugh Jackman as benevolent sheep
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