reviews
Does Just Mercy do justice to its inspiring real-life story?
Michael B. Jordan delivers a powerfully understated performance as a real-life attorney.
17 Jan
Luke Buckmaster
Luke Buckmaster has being writing about the cinema since 1997. In addition to writing for Flicks, he is film and TV critic for The Guardian Australia, and author of the George Miller biography Miller and Max: George Miller and the Making of a Film Legend.
features
Revisiting two of Studio Ghibli’s great – and most overlooked – films
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Pom Poko are great Studio Ghibli films you might not have heard of.
13 Jan
reviews
The brilliant Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon is a rare breed of filmmaking
The geniuses at Aardman Animations have done it again.
10 Jan
features
The 20 most significant motion pictures of the decade
It was a crazy decade for film, TV, virtual reality, augmented reality and social media.
30 Dec
features
The top 15 films of 2019
We revisit an exciting year for cinema and streaming, revealing the best films of 2019.
27 Dec
features
Cats, Sonic, Star Wars and the wild new era of the ‘never finished’ film
Welcome to a new and very weird era of films, where nothing is ever finished.
23 Dec
features
The weirdest thing about Cats isn’t the costume design or special effects
The strangest thing about this badly botched adaptation isn’t what you expect.
19 Dec
features
Portrait of a Lady on Fire v Little Women: one is great, the other ain’t
There’s been an awful lot of women on fire in period dramas lately.
18 Dec
features
Fight Club 20 years on: how does its politics stand up?
A lot has changed in the world since Tyler Durden burst upon the scene.
11 Dec
features
Knives Out and the everlasting appeal of the whodunit genre
Here’s what makes the critically acclaimed box office hit Knives Out so much fun
04 Dec
features
The visual inventions of The Irishman, from tracking shots to deadly callbacks
Ah, Marty, great to have you back doing your gangster thang.
22 Nov
features
For All Mankind and the appeal of alternate history dramas
In this world Neil Armstrong got pipped to the post and the god darn commies got to the moon first.
14 Nov
reviews
The snoozy Doctor Sleep is your cure for insomnia
Having trouble sleeping? Maybe this belated sequel to The Shining can help.
08 Nov
features
Terminator: Dark Fate is a step too far. This entire franchise should be erased from existence
The Terminator movies stopped making sense a long time ago. This goddamn franchise has gone too far.
04 Nov
reviews
Netflix’s supernatural thriller Rattlesnake is reminiscent of a thousand B movies
Australian director Zak Hilditch’s thriller violates the spirit of silly movies spurred on by dumb decisions.
28 Oct
features
Watchmen is a mind-bending superhero show about a tripped-out alternate America
Good guys, bad guys, heroes, villains – they’re all thrown into a blender in this mind-boggling alternate universe.
24 Oct
features
What makes Joker a rare and incendiary work of art
This is a shockingly relevant art film torn from the spine of a multiplex movie franchise.
03 Oct
features
Ad Astra shows why outer space is a great setting for drama
What makes outer space such a compelling setting for stories about personal voyages?
23 Sep
features
Undone is an exquisite time travel drama from the creators of BoJack Horseman
You’ve never seen a TV show quite like this visually extraordinary production.
19 Sep
features
What the It movies are really about and why the sequel is superior
The idea that the first It movie is better than the sequel is complete poppycock, says Luke Buckmaster.
06 Sep
features
6 reasons why The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance is a modern masterpiece
Netflix’s brilliant Dark Crystal prequel series will blow your mind.
05 Sep
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