The Lighthouse – arthouse or shithouse?
The impact of The Lighthouse has been undeniable. It has received high praise from critics and sparked many a conversation among art cinephiles about the layers of subtext [...]
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The secret of Doctor Sleep’s success
In 2013 Stephen King released the novel Doctor Sleep, a sequel to his classic 1977 novel, the Shining. In 1980 director Stanley Kubrick made the Shining into a film and [...]
Cosplay heroes rule OzComicCon 2019
#OzComicCon2019 is one of the biggest touring conventions in Australia and this year the #cosplayers turned out in force to prove, once again, that they really are the true [...]
Should you give a puck about Carnival Row?
People looking for the next version of—or comparing Amazon Prime series Carnival Row to—Game of Thrones, need to give it a [...]
Good Boys – bad movie
The trailers for Good Boys were deceptive, they made this movie look like a great time but they’ve crammed all the best jokes into two minutes and you really shouldn’t [...]
IT ends… eventually!
For this reviewer, IT Chapter 2 was easily the most anticipated film of [...]
The Boys review – never meet your heroes
Amazon Prime series, The Boys does feel like a breath of fresh air, even if it looks more like something from the bottom of a chum [...]
NOS4A2 – Far King Hill! It’s pretty average
The series NOS4A2 (pronounced ‘Nosferatu’) is based on the novel by Joe Hill, a.k.a. Joe Hillstrom King, son of Steven King. Rather than ride the old man’s coat [...]
Stranger Things 3 smokes streaming records!
It’s been well over a year and a half since we binged the Stranger Things Season 2 and since then many pop-culture commentators and critics have heralded the end of the [...]
Why Chernobyl might be HBO’s best drama series ever
On 26 April 1986, 3 kilometres outside the north Ukrainian City of Pripyat the number 4 nuclear reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded, resulting in the most [...]
