I did it, I got around to that film where Isabelle Adjani thrashes around a tunnel.

This was a… film that I watched. It’s been on my radar given that it’s seemingly beloved by everyone, and it’s also a Video Nasty. With a 4K copy lended to me, I took the freedom of a Thursday afternoon to view this.

I’m not sure of what the point of things is, but I know for certain that I felt what was at…

With the Ritz kicking off their David Lynch retrospective, and having seen Eraserhead in very recent memory, I thought it would bring me one step closer to understanding it, or at least fully forming my interpretation of it.

It didn’t. In fact, it went the opposite way to me barely comprehending it. But thankfully, I still appreciating it as a masterpiece of cinema.

Only Lynch could make something that you don’t know how to fully describe one of the most…

And so, the Mission Impossible franchise has come to a close, or at least Tom Cruise’s reign over it. How does one close a film franchise that’s been consistently going for 30 years, especially when the hype and expectations for each film are raised higher and higher. Is this the most perfect and greatest of the series? No, but as we can expect, this is an excellently made blockbuster film, one that seems rarer with each ing year, but one…

FULL DISCLOSURE- I HAD SEVEN STANDARD DRINKS BEFORE THIS SCREENING, I WAS DRUNK, AND THIS REVIEW IS WRITTEN WHILE UNDER THE INFLUENCE. SOZ.

So……. I watched this film about a month or so ago to prepare me for this screening, because I made a vow with Alex to be drunk for this screening. I had little faith I would this screening, so watching the film beforehand sober will ensure I have a chance to know what this film is.…

Over the past month and a bit, my dad and I was able to rip my way through as much Twin Peaks as we can, all the way up to the point of Season 2 in which we find out who killed Laura Palmer. As my parents went on vacation, I was at least at a point (I felt) that watching Fire Walk With Me would not be an overt spoiler for the rest of the series. And so I…

I first saw this film several years ago in my teens. Needless to say, I didn’t understand most of it, but there were several pieces that were seared into my head- the Leonard Cohen music, was obviously one of those bits. But revisiting it now, as a more thoughtful and cynical man, this film really does hit.

The Old West is perhaps one of the most romanticised pieces of history, one people like to think of as a time of…

THE LUNATICS HAVE TAKEN OVER THE ASYLUM! I REPEAT, THE LUNATICS HAVE TAKEN OVER THE ASYLUM!

Out of complete left field, this was the chosen film to finish off the Art Gallery’s wonderful series of Folly. “But why”, I wondered, I thought all that there is to the name of Babe is warmness and small scale events. But alas, this takes place in the city, far away from the coziness of the farm and countryside, an environment full of perversion,…

When I saw the film for the first time, I somehow saw greater and deeper meaning in it.

This is the fourth time I’ve seen it, and the third time from the same 35mm print in theatres. All  meaning is lost now, taken over by a spiritual experience. I feel exhilarated. I feel nothing but a post-coital glow.

I love this dirty masterpiece. This dirty, filthy, fantastic masterpiece. I love how grand it is. I love how uninhibited it is.…

Wednesday nights are usually trivia nights for me at the local bowling club. But not tonight, for it was the premiere of the 35mm print of Anora at the Ritz. Let’s see… new film… new 35mm print (and first screening of such)… tickets include a drink… and I get to watch my first Sean Baker film. I (and seemingly a whole sector of Sydney) attended.

Anora is a film that lives and breathes like the wild living thing it is,…

It’s funny that Lynch always seemed to make films about lightness and darkness. The way that films are projected are through light, so we can see them. So in a way, no matter how dark the image goes, light will always prevail.

Blue Velvet finally clicked with me on this screening, my mind finally formed enough to find further meaning into it that I couldn’t see when I was 17, nor when I was 21.

It examines the nature of…

Where can one go from Eraserhead? Does one stay within the consciousness, or go out and see the world? But, does it have to be one or the other?

I was keenly interested to view this as I was well aware of its stature in popular culture, and also to see what Lynch conjured up for his second effort in feature length filmmaking. While it didn’t blow me away as much as the rest of his work usually does, it…