Sweet Country, 2017. Directed by Warwick Thornton. Starring Bryan Brown, Sam Neill, Hamilton Morris, Matt Day, Tremayne Doolan, Trevon Doolan, and Ewen Leslie. SYNOPSIS: Australian western set on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, where justice itself is put on trial when an aged Aboriginal farmhand shoots a white man in self-defence and goes […]
Movie Review – Mary Magdalene (2018)
Mary Magdalene, 2018. Directed by Garth Davis. Starring Rooney Mara, Joaquin Phoenix, Chewitel Ejiofor, Tahar Rahim, and Denis Menochet. SYNOPSIS: One of most controversial and misunderstood pariahs is given a cultural realignment in this gritty portrayal of Mary Magdalene (Rooney Mara). Chronicling her life B.C. and the subsequent path taken when she decides to follow […]
Movie Review – Flower (2018)
Flower, 2018. Directed by Max Winkler. Starring Zoey Deutch, Kathryn Hahn, Adam Scott, Dylan Gelula, Tim Heidecker, Eric Edelstein, Maya Eshet, Joey Morgan. SYNOPSIS: A sexually curious teen forms an unorthodox kinship with her mentally unstable stepbrother. Max Winkler’s Flower is unorthodox sibling kinship from a painfully quirky perspective. Breakdowns are festively crass, attitudes unstable […]
The X-Files Season 11 Episode 9 Review – ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’
Matt Rodgers reviews the ninth episode of The X-Files season 11… It goes without saying that this week’s episode of The X-Files should not be watched with your dinner, especially if you’re partial to a mixed grill. Mulder and Scully have investigated cults before – ‘Red Museum’ (season 2 episode 10, ‘The Field Where I […]
Jessica Jones Season 2 Episode 9 – ‘AKA Shark in the Bathtub, Monster in the Bed’
Matt Rodgers reviews the ninth episode of Jessica Jones season 2… The titular shark being Pryce Cheng, who it turns out was the assassin shooting bullets into Jessica’s back at the end of the previous episode, and the monster he was aiming at was everyone’s favourite neck snapping, wall-crawling maternal murderer, Alisa Jones. As has […]
Riverdale Season 2 Episode 15 Review – ‘There Will Be Blood’
Liam Hoofe reviews the fifteenth episode of Riverdale season 2… Continuing its trend of paying homage this week, Riverdale drew direct inspiration from Paul Thomas Anderson’s 2007 masterpiece There Will Be Blood, providing us with a story of power, betrayal, and the lure of money. The focus of this week’s episode was Hiram Lodge, (Riverdale’s […]
Jessica Jones Season 2 Episode 8 Review – ‘AKA Ain’t We Got Fun’
Matt Rodgers reviews the eighth episode of Jessica Jones season 2… There are few things more disappointing in the world of TV viewing than a really good episode being followed up by something of a duffer. Streaming binge-watch shows neutralises the week long wait we’d have to suffer having just sat through a Paolo and […]
The Flash Season 4 Episode 16 Review – ‘Run, Iris, Run’
Jessie Robertson reviews the sixteenth episode of The Flash season 4… Here’s the episode we’ve been hearing about for a while where Iris becomes a speedster. The gimmick behind this episode is a new bus meta that can essentially transfer one meta’s powers to another. This is exactly what happens when Iris and Barry are […]
DC’s Legends of Tomorrow Season 3 Episode 14 Review – ‘Amazing Grace’
Jessie Robertson reviews the fourteenth episode of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow season 3… Ok, I like Amaya and Nate; am I alone? There’s been a looming question as these two seem to come together and split apart; how does their relationship affect her future? It feels a bit too obvious so I’m guessing they don’t […]
Lucifer Season 3 Episode 17 Review – ‘Let Pinhead Sing!’
Tori Brazier reviews the seventeenth episode of Lucifer season three… While Lucifer could never be called a particularly original show, it does at least embrace the clichés it peddles, selling them wholeheartedly. Set-ups may be quite predictable, and follow storylines we expect, but with its playful tone and knowing glances it almost doesn’t matter. ‘Let […]
