Film critic from Perth, WA
My Disney-style "I Want" song is "Someday I'll Watch all the Studio Ghibli Movies...Someday"
screening at Hoyts Carousel w/Brother Mitchell
At first, has a very serviceable, almost generic pace that isn't much to write home about. Tends to try too hard for a laugh.
Once the action leaves Iacon City, things get progressively better and better, with deeper lore, compelling twists, and strong character development. It is (ahem) more than meets the eye. When our characters return to their home, TRANSFORMERS ONE becomes brilliant and the finest film in the franchise so far. Taking…
NITRAM is incredible. Dark, harrowing, definitely not for the faint-hearted. The portrait of an ill young man who was not given the help and proper treatment he needed, a sickness in him that festered into a rot, personified into an action that changed Australian history. Martin Bryant committed an act of pure evil, and while the film makes no excuses about it, it also proposes that it was a product of negligent mental health services, undiagnosed parental illnesses, an ignorant…