When people hear about Rental Family (Disney Plus), the new film starring Brendan Fraser, it is easy to assume its premise belongs to the realm of far-fetched fiction. An actor who gets paid to play...
Admittedly, despite having grown up with the chart-topping pop band Culture Club a ubiquitous presence on the airwaves of my youth, I’m not the target nostalgia audience for Alison Ellwood’s Boy...
This month over at Five Books For, we've been talking about trilogies. One of the things I love about a trilogy is that they have depth, and extra time with your favourite characters, but they don't...
With the ongoing battle for the soul of humanity versus the trillionaire far-right tech barons, it seems timely to revisit a largely forgotten film that was the first to seriously confront our online...
Miniature Malekpour, University of Sydney For women in Iran, life changed dramatically after the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The new Islamic Republic of Iran enforced compulsory veiling, legalised...
After immersing myself in the quiet austerity of Italian Neorealism last month, returning to full Technicolor felt almost indecent. Last month’s films were rooted in the grimmer end of reality -...
Intriguingly Backrooms, directed by 20-year-old Kane Parsons adapting his original liminal space web series into his debut feature for A24, shares the DNA with the unlikeliest of sources. The endless...
The summer movie lineup is on fire with a wave of new releases where action, science fiction, and animation come together in a shared spirit of adventure. June promises to keep us on the edge of our...
They stand statuesque under blazing red lamps, War of the Worlds tripods reconfigured to strike again, this time at the vanity of humanity. We’re perched on edge of the Trumpian abyss. His decade...
This month over at Five Books For, I’ve been looking at books where education is either a key theme or setting in the story. The book: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go spends a...
