Film Reviews

T he Planet of the Apes franchise is a remake I can get behind because special effects, both practical and computer generated, have come a long way since the series launched in 1968, and the idea that humanity's need to tinker with the natural world

When you start noticing grey wisps in your pubes, a lot of people might consider it time to give up on high school coming-of-age movies. Not me, though.

Bank robbers have always been celebrated. Likely that's because banks have always been figuratively sodomizing us in the cash-hole and acting like they're doing us a favour. Or maybe we just love an underdog.

Despite being white as a glacier, utterly middle class, and having grown up in a Canadian ski town, I'm a gangster rapper by trade and a West Coast gangster rapper by specialty.

Now, longtime readers of this space know that I haven't always been easy on the local Australian population (they haven't always been easy on me either, as a waiter or a citizen), but I'm a longtime fan of the Australian film industry.

Cats are evil bastards — the criminal geniuses of the animal kingdom.

Remember a few weeks ago when I was complaining about Warner Brothers' lack of marketing for Wonder Woman ? It might have been because the suits in Hollywood knew that when the time came this one would market itself.

Some people stand in the darkness, afraid to step into the light... Reports from Cannes are that audiences are booing Okja , the new Bong Joon-ho flick because it is a Netflix property.

The Cannes Film Festival kicked off this week in the sunny south of France. Last year, I had the opportunity to partake in cinema's most celebrated festival of light (and hobnobbed) with Sea to Sky director Darcy Turenne.

It's Mother's Day this weekend, which means Hollywood will take what they consider a risk and release a comedy aimed at women.