All these years, there were few things that mattered. But what mattered most... was knowing how you three felt about me.
Big Wednesday, John Milius' all encompassing, decades transpiring opus, plays like the 'Great American Novel' you had always been meaning to read, but had for some reason cast aside.
The film revolves around three surfer friends in the sixties, Matt, Barlow and Leroy the Masochist, all of whom are perfectly cast as the 'wave gods' of the Southern Californian…
Brisbane International Film Festival 2024
"Welcome to America"
Brady Corbet’s all encompassing work, The Brutalist, is modelled in the style of the great seventies American epics, possessing the sort of scope based storytelling that has one questioning whether or not this is all based upon a classic American novel that they never knew even existed.
It’s a work that displays many of the glorious excessive impulses and ambitions of the New Hollywood pioneers, it’s a film that aspires to go…
Whilst there is of course ostentatious qualities to this latest Steven Soderbergh work, the brisk and sleek execution of Black Bag, does a lot to counteract the stubborn convolution of it all.
Although at times Soderbergh's work threatens to exist merely as a genre exercise, one that's almost mechanical in nature, the stellar ensemble here does a substantial amount of the heavy lifting, succeeding in helping to click many of these clunky mechanics into place.
I've always respected the versatility…
Although not the first on-screen adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's iconic 1826 novel, its clear that many of the future tellings of this tale owe a great deal to this George B. Seitz work, which features a younger Randolph Scott as the central Hawkeye, a scout who is tasked with escorting two daughters of Colonel Monroe safely through the brutal French and Native American War.
A leaner, more adventurous take on the story than many of the other cinematic adaptions,…
Global IMAX Premiere
Sydney Film Festival 2024
“When we leap into the unknown, we prove that we're free.”
It seems almost impossible to now comprehend a reality where Francis Ford Coppola's career encompassing passion project, Megalopolis, actually exists.
As many of the films initial murmurs and reactions promised, it is every bit the kind of bombastic, self-indulgent and convention shattering work that one hopes it would be. It's exactly the sort of artistic statement that could only emerge from the…
"When we leap into the unknown, we prove that we're free.”
So goes a line of dialogue in Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis, it's the sort of line that seems to come directly from the soul of its creator, in relation to the very conception of his career-long opus.
These sorts of personal flourishes and lines are plentiful in Megalopolis, and help to remind us of the clear one-of-kind nature of this work. Never has pure creativity and untampered imagination been…
