Phil Jeng Kane

THE KILLING OF A SACRED DEER is about a heart surgeon, Steven Murphy (Colin Farrell), who is in a strange relationship with a teenager called Martin (Barry Keoghan). How they are connected is not clear. The boy is awkward and Steven doesn’t even seem to like him, precisely. However, the relationship continues with Steven eventually introducing Martin to his wife Anna (Nicole Kidman) and their chil...

JUSTICE LEAGUE is the fifth movie of the D.C. Extended Universe (DCEU). It is preceded and informed by MAN OF STEEL (2013), BATMAN V SUPERMAN (2016), SUICIDE SQUAD (2016) and WONDER WOMAN (2017). The story begins in a world that is still coming to terms with the death of Superman. Massive black flags fly in tribute to the lost son of Krypton. There is a sense that Earth is now unguarded against al...

Frank Castle a.k.a. The Punisher exploded onto our TV screens (laptops, tablets, ‘phones) in Season 2 of DAREDEVIL. Now, he’s back in his own series, MARVEL’S THE PUNISHER, on Netflix, commencing November 17th. Jon Bernthal, who impressed Daredevil fans mightily with his full-on portrayal of the popular Marvel character, reprises his role in a thirteen-part series which has clearly been conceived ...

BAD MOMS was a smash hit comedy of 2016. It cost US $20 million to make and took an impressive US $183 million at the box office. With numbers like those, a follow-up was always on the cards, however the fact the original debuted in July 2016 and the sequel was released at the end of October 2017, suggests a swiftly made production. On a first watch, it appears the screenplay was the area that cou...

The Westival is an annual music festival that attracts great players and enthusiastic folk-loving audiences to a small town in Western Australia. The story begins when Keevey (Rebecca Breeds), a Western Australian fiddler and singer in her father’s Irish band, crosses paths with Roland (Robert Sheehan) an actual Irishman with no interest whatsoever in the folk music of his homeland. He instructs e...

Robin is married to Diana. The Cavendishes are English and live in Kenya. It is 1958 and his business is coffee. The couple live a good life and have made solid friendships. Then tragedy strikes and Robin (Andrew Garfield) contracts a severe, debilitating disease. He is 28. Diana (Claire Foy) is 25. He lives, but his condition is so devastating that he sinks into depression. Diana wonders how thei...

BLADE RUNNER 2049 is the sequel to science fiction, neo-noir, BLADE RUNNER (1982). The original film (set thirty years before the sequel) told the dystopian story of an overpopulated Earth where human beings had spread to off-world colonies and synthetic humans called Replicants were now doing many of the worst jobs that natural humans shunned.  In the world of 2019, an advanced group of Replicant...

The prank is juvenile. On a non-teaching day, 27 teachers’ car are vandalised at a high school in a small town called Hanover. The vehicles are spray-painted with penises and there is one student who is well-known for this type of activity, “burnout-loser” and “f*ck-up” Dylan Maxwell. He is accused and then suspended by the school. But the evidence against him is circumstantial and the school’s ca...

Brisbane’s indie rock legends The Go-Betweens were formed by Robert Forster and Grant McLennan in 1977.  Lindy Morrison became the drummer in 1980 and for a long time, this was the guts of the band. They were born and grew in the same era as other indies like Laughing Clowns and The Birthday Party. If you were a Generation-X, alternative-music type who kept up with the scene and read RAM magazine,...

In 1973, at the Houston Astrodome, 29-year-old Billie Jean King played 55-year-old Bobby Riggs at an exhibition tennis match described as a “battle of the sexes”. Riggs had won Wimbledon in 1939 and been World Number 1 in the 1940s. King was at a career peak. In the previous year, she had won her first French Open, her third US Open and fourth Wimbledon. The idea behind this event was that Bobby R...

Fortunata (Jasmine Trinca) is a single mother living in one of the rougher parts of Rome. She has an eight-year-old daughter Barbara (Nicole Centanni)  and barely makes a living as a hairdresser. She is always rushing to the next job and sometimes leaves Barbara with her business partner and childhood friend, a bi-polar junkie called Chicano (Alessandro Borghi). Her parenting and indeed, entire li...

Eggsy Unwin (Taron Egerton) the novice spy of 2014’s KINGSMAN: THE SECRET SERVICE returns in its first sequel KINGSMAN: THE GOLDEN CIRCLE. Another movie—­­­­­­­­­­­and now, we’re franchising, folks! The original film was a box office champ almost three years ago, could this next chapter be equally successful? Eggsy is, somewhat unexpectedly, still with actual Swedish Princess Tilde (Hanna Alström)...