Last weekend, something fairly momentous happened. Lumberjack the Monster, the new film by Takashi Miike, arrived on Netflix. Lumberjack the Monster is a significant release,
Category: Films
The Prank review – silver screen legend Rita Moreno graces twisty high school comedy
Nerdy swot Ben (Connor Kalopsis) and dropout-in-the-making Tanner (Ramona Young) are high school seniors and best friends. That seems mildly implausible given their wildly different
Press junkets are ‘torture’ says Lupita Nyong’o
The press junket is one of the film industry’s necessary evils; a way of shoehorning the maximum amount of media attention into the minimum possible
Post your questions for Ken Jeong
It seems every country needs a medical doctor-turned-comedian. The UK has Harry Hill, Monty Python’s Graham Chapman and the Goodies’ Graeme Garden. The US has
Deep Sea review – underwater restaurant yarn cooks up dazzlingly psychedelic images
Having conquered the Chinese box office with the superhit Monkey King: Hero Is Back in 2015, director Tian Xiaopeng plunges into the whirlpool of childhood
Mysterious Ways review – ex-con marries priest in well-meaning LGBTQ+ rights drama
‘This is us! Not a cause!” says Samoan husband-to-be Jason (Nick Afoa) in a rare moment of self-illumination in this soapy and stiflingly well-meaning gay
You Burn Me review – Sappho and suffering in a macabre meditation on desire and death
The three words “you burn me” are a surviving fragment (or micro-poem) by Sappho, and make up the title of this hour-long reverie from the
Mom review – Indigenous Mexican woman contemplates the price of a machismo society
In a culture where discussion of family trauma and gender-based abuse are still considered taboo, Xun Sero’s frank, intimate documentary seeks to find a common
Mr & Mrs Mahi review – Indian cricketing love story is more than just a boys’ own tale
Hindi cinema has thus far spent 2024 in retreat, its commercial failures compounded by a successful run of south Indian crowdpleasers. Timed with Kohli-like precision
Rebel Wilson says idea only gay actors can play gay roles ‘is total nonsense’
Australian actor Rebel Wilson has said the idea that “only straight actors can play straight roles and gay actors can play gay roles” is “total