”I am the great traitor. There must be no other.”
A despicable tale of despicable men let loose in a despicable jungle as they slowly drift towards their inevitable demise, Aguirre, the Wrath of God is as much a repudiation of the evils of colonialism as it is a darkly comic examination of hollow futility of man’s hubris. Werner Herzog is certainly no stranger to stories about addled and deranged men and their mangled lives, such stories comprising a notable…
And what would a note say, Dan? 'Cat dead; details later'?
Re-Animator is, undoubtedly, a cheap and nasty little film. The maiden directorial effort from avant-garde theatre producer Stuart Gordon, it catapulted its star Jeffrey Combs into the haunted halls of horror legend and set the tone and the standard for every B horror film that followed. As a genre piece it is nothing short of perfection, both in how it honestly and earnestly presents its scares and gore with…
Brunswick Underground Film Festival
Way funnier watching Jackass 3D in 2D with all of the Friday the 13th Part 3 stick something in the camera to the audience their 3D ticket price worth shots looking way way dumber. 3 is the dark turn for Bam, who while more haggard in 2 has lost all of his youthfulness and exuberance here replacing both with a gristle and a tough looking booze bloat that makes his involvement a little sad. I’m not…
Brunswick Underground Film Festival
When people talk about the Jackass films being an exercise in shedding masculinity or secretly a sly tribute to Hollywood golden age musicals they’re mostly talking out of their ass but their mostly referring to Jackass Number 2. The team are much more comfortable with their bodies and the latent homosexuality of their communal obsessions with bodily excretions and each other’s anuses is far less eschewed here than it was in the first film. The fascinating…
Sydney Film Festival 2024
Competent and even sometimes downright impressive craft covering up a bafflingly brain dead script that turns into gore covered slapstick of its lead before trailing on into a half hour death spiral. Coralie Fargeat core tenet’s of The Substance start off as an exploration of women’s youth and beauty being a fleeting commodity in an image focused world and then fall apart to the most basic and churlish critique of egoism that can be mustered. Trying…
The Pink Flamingo Cinema
Special Premiere Screening
I'm technically a distributor of this film so I'm not going to rate it, but I will say that I loved it and a majority of the audience loved it as well. Fantastic tonal balance between the poised exploration of the historical combat between the colonists and the land they've colonised and some good old fashioned genre madness with sex and death dispensed in steady supply.
It got a round of applause and two walkouts, and if thats not the sign of impactful cinema I don't know what is.
