For a film about cute animals working together in a beautifully rendered, human-less world, Flow is perhaps the single most stressful experience I had in a cinema in 2024.

Flow opens with a solitary black cat traversing an empty village, where abandoned houses overcome by moss and vines imply a society lost to time not long ago. Typical of its species, the cat seems relatively unfazed by the lack of people there, and has secured a neat little routine of…

Anyone who has a tough or outright non-existent relationship with a parent will understand the pain Lily Trevino is going through in Bob Trevino Likes It.

At only 25, the hard-done-by yet plucky Lily (rising star Barbie Ferreira) is without a mother, without a car and without a future. Her mum died when she was only a child, and her father, Bob Trevino, is an emotionally immature narcissist who relies on Lily for everything and gives nothing in return.

Bob’s…

Would you believe that The Day the Earth Blew Up: A Looney Tunes Movie (out in cinemas next week) is the first ever fully animated Looney Tunes feature film?

Yup. And before you ask ‘what about the 1996 classic sports comedy movie Space Jam?’ I’ll remind you that was a composite of live action and 2D animation, you absolute fool (how good is that website, though?). Who Framed Roger Rabbit? as another example, is not a fully animated feature film…

Vincent is a film like no other. It defies categorisation and stands alone as a truly unique work of art.

Written, performed and edited by Melbourne filmmaker and actor Alan King, it’s a psychological character study of a brilliant yet tortured artist navigating friendship, fame, success, substance abuse, and his own precarious mental health.

Like cult Australian films Bad Boy Bubby, Mad Max and Peter Weir’s The Cars That Ate Paris, Vincent struggled to secure mainstream cinema distribution when it…