Film review: Blink Twice (plus ticket giveaway)

Zoë Kravitz’ directorial debut is intense, stylish, lurid, but a missed opportunity for much more complex subject.Try as a filmmaker might, one’s background will influence…

Film review – Alien: Romulus

On its seventh instalment, the Alien franchise looks back at its origins with mixed results but an ending so cathartic it makes up for its…

Film review: It Ends With Us

Blake Lively stars in this long-awaited Colleen Hoover adaptation that delivers the expected soapy melodrama fans of the author want, and not much for everyone…

Film of the week: The Fall Guy, plus ticket giveaway

Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt star in a love letter to the stunt professionals of Hollywood. Shot in Sydney’s CBD, it offers little beyond impressive…

Film of the week: Evil Does Not Exist

The Japanese director behind 2021’s Drive My Car delivers a beautiful and contemplative eco-drama that ends with one of this year’s most harrowingly haunting endings.I…

Films of the week: Civil War, Robot Dreams

Alex Garland divides opinions, and America, in a nihilistic war fantasy. And the surprise Spanish animated Robot Dreams is a charming piece that both breaks and…

Films of the week: Monkey Man, Origin

This week, an action film and a serious drama about the nature of institutionalised racism. One set to be a modern classic, the other no…

Film of the week: Perfect Days

Wim Wenders returns with a simple and heartwarming slice of life set in Tokyo.Every day, except on Sundays, Hirayama (Koji Yakusho) wakes up before the…

Film of the week: Immaculate

Sydney Sweeney turns scream queen in a nunsploitation horror film that is effective, if a little predictable.Immaculate feels like the most Hollywood movie. Like a…

Films of the week: Love Lies Bleeding, You’ll Never Find Me. Plus ticket giveaway.

Kristen Stewart headlines a pumping high-octane thriller, while a little Australian horror does a lot with very little. Plus a ticket giveaway for the upcoming…