Reviews

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Meal Tickets

MEAL TICKETS is a documentary that charts the journey of Western Australian rock band The Screwtop Detonators. Shot over ten years by director Mat de ...

8

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Sami Blood

The 2017 Volvo Scandinavian Film Festival got under way last night at the Cinema Paradiso with the preview screening of Sami Blood, written and direct...

8

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Becoming Bond

Revelations Perth International Film Festival is only days away and what better way to launch the festival than with Bond himself.

8.5

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Okja

OKJA is tipped by many to be Netflix’s first blockbuster…do we agree? Films made for / released straight to “on demand” media rather than ...

9

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Spider-Man: Homecoming Review

Several months after the events of Captain America: Civil War, Peter Parker, with the help of his mentor Tony Stark, tries to balance his life as an o...

5.5

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Dave Made A Maze

Last month I had the opportunity to attend the preview launch of Revelations Perth International Film Festival at Luna Leederville. The preview movie ...

8

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The Beguiled Review

Jealously, deceit and hormones—things found in abundance in the isolated, all-women household featured in THE BEGUILED. Adapted for screen and directe...

7

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Loving

LOVING tells the true story of Richard and Mildred Loving, whose arrest and banishment for interracial marriage began a legal battle that would reshap...

8

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My Life As A Zucchini

Most audiences won’t be sure what to expect from a film with such a quirky title. After the sudden loss of his mother, a young boy is sent to a ...

8

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A Quiet Passion

Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 and lived until 1886. She never travelled far from her home in Amherst, Massachusetts and she published no more than ...

7.5

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Two People

TWO PEOPLE is the first feature from Perth filmmaker Rob Livings. The two people of the title are played by Liberty Hills and Nick Pages-Oliver. We do...

8

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A Ghost Story Review

After dying in a tragic accident, a man returns to his house as a ghost in a white sheet and attempts to reconnect with his bereft wife. A Ghost Story...

7

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Cars 3 Review

There’s nothing quite as satisfying as witnessing something come full circle: CARS 3 offers such satisfaction. Ditching the ill-advised international ...

7

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Una Review

A young woman shows up at the workplace of her much older former-neighbor to confront him about their shared past. Ray’s (Ben Mendelsohn) new life is ...

8

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Hotel Coolgardie

HOTEL COOLGARDIE is a Western Australian observational documentary directed by Pete Gleeson. It follows the journey of Lina and Stephie, two Finnish b...

7

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Voyage of the Southern Sun

Voyage of the Southern Sun follows the journey of Michael Smith, the man who brought Yarraville’s Sun Theatre back to life, as he retraces the histori...

7

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Despicable Me 3 Review

Gru meets his long-lost charming, cheerful, and more successful twin brother Dru who wants to team up with him for one last criminal heist.

6

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The Sense of an Ending

Tony Webster (Jim Broadbent) is a Londoner in his 60s. He runs a camera store that sells expensive second-hand Leicas, but this passes the time rather...

7

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The Mummy Review

Nick Morton (Tom Cruise) and archaeologist Jenny Halsey (Annabelle Wallis) discover a sarcophagus beneath a ruined city in Iraq, and take it to London...

6

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Baywatch

Baywatch the original television series, ran for from 1989 to 1999. It was, for a time, the most popular television show in the world. Let that sink i...