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IFI Documentary Festival | Fatness, The Personal and the Political, in Your Fat Friend
As a fan of Maintenance Phase – the highly informative podcast that debunks weight loss and wellness fads that has only grown in popularity over the almost three years of its existence – Aubrey Gordon has been a knowledgeable, likeable and…
Movie Review | From Gamer to Racer in Gran Turismo
The intersection of gaming and cinema has produced some unexpected gems over the years, and the upcoming Gran Turismo movie, directed by Neill Blomkamp and written by Jason Hall and Zach Baylin, is no exception. While Gran Turismo, a…
Movie Review | Blue Beetle Restores Heart and Humour to the DCEU
Jaime Reyes is a character that is often overlooked by casual superhero fans — a young man that is somewhere between Venom, Iron Man and Spider-man, and with a coming-of-age story that is both beautiful and universally understood. In Blue…
GAZE 2023 | Ungentle – An enthralling study of Queer Identity, Statehood and Secrecy
From the very beginning the connections between early-century espionage and male homosexuality are made clear in Ungentle. After mulling over when he became a traitor, the enigmatic narrator notes that “Deceit is an English game.” Indeed,…
Gen Z Horror Talk to Me Will Make Your Skin Crawl
If contemporary horror is anything to go by, the kids are not alright. The likes of the Unfriended series, It Follows, and Bodies Bodies Bodies have all painted a picture of youth bleak enough to make Edward Munch blush. In the worlds of…
The Deepest Breath | Heart-pounding Doc Plunges You into the World of Freediving
On paper, Laura McGann's The Deepest Breath fits neatly into the recent trend of documentaries about thrill-seekers pushing it to the limit – there’s a sprinkle of Free Solo (2018) with a dash of Fire of Love (2022). The experience,…
What Holds the Dead? Lake Mungo at 15.
Horror is not the first thing we think of when we think of Australia but it should be. Exploring beyond the coastal enclaves of Sydney, Perth and Adelaide we reach the outback. A dry, barren and red desert full of venomous spiders, lurking…
The Flash | Another Day, Another DC Misfire
Imagine, if you will, a film delayed so often that putting together an exact timeline of its production, is almost as difficult as watching the final product. A film whose existence is a questionable exercise in the capitalist nightmare…
Reality | Sweeney’s Star Continues to Rise in Tight, Tense Thriller
Have you ever walked into a shop, just to kill time, and then walk out before a thought stops you in your tracks: “I should buy something so that they don’t think I’m stealing!”. An irrationally strange thought that befalls us all and the…
Robert Rodriguez’s Twisty Thriller Hypnotic Will Leave You Nauseous
The sort of DTV filler that invariably goes straight to Redbox and stars Frank Grillo or Chad Michael Murray, usually produced by Grindstone or Emmett-Furla, with a headline cameo from Bruce Willis, Robert DeNiro or John Malkovich. This…