reviews
Triple Threat is a lean, muscular and brutally brisk action-thriller
A lean, muscular action thriller that knows what its principal charms are and goes out of its way to deliver them in spades.
07 May
Travis Johnson
Travis is a Sydney-based cineaste, critic, writer, occasional filmmaker and performer
features
The King at the movies: films to watch before Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis biopic
Flamboyant Aussie director Baz Luhrmann’s next project is a biopic of Elvis Presley.
02 May
features
Is Dead Calm the greatest Australian thriller ever made?
This classic film is now 30 years old, and as terrific as ever.
16 Apr
reviews
If you really need your Keanu Reeves fix, the wintry thriller Siberia might hit the spot
Keanu, for all his many charms, simply doesn’t have the emotional transparency for the job.
13 Apr
features
Your guide to the bloody good horror films arriving throughout April
At home and at the cinema, this month is an absolutely killer month for horror.
11 Apr
features
Terry Gilliam’s wild and wonderful masterpieces – from dystopian futures to epic drug binges
Terry Gilliam has carved out a place for himself as one of cinema’s most striking and original fantasists.
09 Apr
features
Why we’re pumped for Jim Jarmusch’s zombie film The Dead Don’t Die
The news that Jim Jarmusch is entering the field with his newest film should get your blood pumping.
04 Apr
reviews
Shazam! is a big-hearted and uproariously funny superhero comedy
Childish? You bet. But Shazam! is also uproariously funny.
02 Apr
features
The phantasmagoric career of Tim Burton, the mop-headed master of the macabre
Burton has produced some of the most singular on-screen phantasmagorias ever to come out of major American studios.
27 Mar
features
The best and worst Stephen King movies, from the highs of The Shining to the lows of Lawnmower Man
The best and worst films adapted from the master of horror.
25 Mar
reviews
Motley Crüe biopic The Dirt captures the ecstatic truth of ‘80s hair metal
Rude, crude, wilfully offensive and shamelessly self-aggrandising.
24 Mar
features
From Dirty Harry to Nicole Kidman in Destroyer: a history of bad arse cops in the movies
Here are cinema’s most bad arse cops.
14 Mar
features
Remembering The Animatrix: the Matrix spin-off that pays tribute to the franchise’s genre roots
From the outset, The Animatrix was an unusual prospect.
10 Mar
features
30 years on, The Salute of the Jugger is still sci-fi’s best sports movie
The critics never cared for it, but screw ’em.
27 Feb
reviews
John Travolta’s career hits rock bottom with the true crime embarrassment Speed Kills
Burn every copy of this film to the ground. TO THE GROUND
25 Feb
features
Why Denis Villenueve’s upcoming version of Dune has us crazy excited
What is all this hullabaloo about Dune, we hear you ask?
13 Feb
features
From If Beale Street Could Talk to Boyz N The Hood: African American auteurs and their greatest films
We reflect on the greatest African American film directors of all time,
12 Feb
reviews
Lords of Chaos revels in the brutality and banality of the early Norwegian black metal scene
Lords of Chaos is a big screen adaptation of the controversial non-fiction book of the same name, revolving around members of the black metal band Mayhem. It is about damaged outcasts doing ugly things, writes critic Travis Johnson. Authenticity is currency in almost any given subculture, but it holds oh so much more value than […]
11 Feb
reviews
Chinese blockbuster The Wandering Earth might be the best sci-fi movie of 2019
A big and beautiful blockbuster.
08 Feb
features
The five weirdest films on SBS On Demand right now
There are absolutely insane movies on SBS On Demand right now.
29 Jan
features
I ain’t like that no more: is it time for Clint Eastwood to hang up his directorial guns?
Should the grizzled Hollywood legend call it a day?
22 Jan
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