Craig Mathieson
Music and Film Critic at Sydney Morning Herald
Music and Film Critic at The Age
Music and Film Critic at The Monthly
TV, music, and film critic for The Age/SMH and The Monthly. Creator of BINGE-R, which you should subscribe to right now. 📺📽️ Yes, it's on my list to watch.
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flicks.com.au | Clarisse Loughrey |Rory Doherty |Luke Buckmaster |Craig Mathieson
With hundreds of fascinating features on offer, Stephen A Russell navigates the twists and turns of this year’s cinematic offering. If your usual response to a sprawling film festival program is to panic, drop and roll, then fear for your soul no more. We are here to wade through the wonders of this year’s startlingly good Sydney Film Festival line-up, suggesting ten flicks we think might tickle your fancy.
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smh.com.au | Craig Mathieson
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Pulpy and irreverent, Murderbot is a mash-up of science-fiction philosophy, creature feature action, and existential anxiety.
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smh.com.au | Craig Mathieson
, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The darkness is no longer on the edge of town. This reboot of the British crime drama about a hardened police detective on the Channel Island of Jersey, which ran for nine seasons between 1981 and 1991, begins at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Jim Bergerac (Brassic’s Damien Molony) painfully offers something his job celebrated: a confession.
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flicks.com.au | Travis Johnson |Steve Newall |Clarisse Loughrey |Craig Mathieson
Thunderbolts*, Marvel’s latest blockbuster, wrangles together a ragtag group of misfits who are neither super nor heroes. So who are they, exactly? Liam Maguren runs through the roll call. A lot’s been going on with the Marvel Cinematic Universe recently, eh? Too much, probably. I can’t blame anyone for not keeping up with it. All these different characters, relationships, plots, subplots, timelines, universes… it’s intimidating to think you must cram all of it to enjoy the current MCU.
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flicks.com.au | Steve Newall |Clarisse Loughrey |Craig Mathieson |DAVID BROWN
Reviving the Predator franchise with primal elegance, Prey is a masterful mix of sweat, blood, myth, and muscle, writes Luke Buckmaster. Surviving a Predator movie is tough work: those gnarly aliens are excellent bounty hunters and have, I imagine, halitosis extreme enough to kill off entire ecosystems. There’s been seven films in the franchise to date, with two more arriving this year—Predator: Killer of Killers (an animated production) and Predator: Badlands.
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In its fourth season SUCCESSION is only getting funnier, more concisely cutting, and bitterly tragic. My Age/SMH review - from the first four episodes - of what shapes as a definitive final season of television's best show. https://t.co/tTbiiM6WRU
Disney+'s ANDOR - one of the best new shows of the year - is the subject of my final Age/SMH TV critic's column. After 11 years of fortnightly verdicts I'm moving across to the weekly streaming reviews page. https://t.co/DIQI5ARTiI
ANDOR tops my streaming wrap for @THEMONTHLY: the first essential STAR WARS series. #Andor https://t.co/HgZOlFEHAD