Daniel Rutledge

1 week ago | flicks.co.uk | Luke Buckmaster |Daniel Rutledge |Dominic Corry |Matt Glasby

Nothing stays the same in the zeitgeist: change, as they say, is the only constant. Unless we’re talking about Nicolas Cage going crazy, which never drops out of fashion—an extraordinary human spectacle, as enduring as the pyramids. On this front, The Surfer more than delivers the goods, starring old mate Nic as a well-off businessman engaged in all-out war with a gang of violent hoodlums in Luna Bay, a fictitious Australian coastal town.

2 weeks ago | flicks.co.uk | Daniel Rutledge |Dominic Corry |Matt Glasby |Clarisse Loughrey

| Dir: Dan Trachtenberg I’d love to jump in a time machine and fly this movie back to the ‘90s. It’s hard to describe just how much of a beloved cult hit it would have been back in the DVD or VHS eras, not just because of the dream concept, but because it’s so slickly executed. A gloriously violent cartoon, this is not really a Predator sequel, reboot or remake, but rather a hyper-stylised ‘what if?’ spin-off. What if a Predator dropped into Viking-era Scandinavia? What about feudal Japan?

3 weeks ago | flicks.com.au | Luke Buckmaster |Craig Mathieson |Travis Johnson |Daniel Rutledge

Oceans rise; empires fall; fashions come and go. But the mighty David Attenborough remains. The beloved biologist and broadcaster is 99-years-old and still in fine form, presenting Ocean with David Attenborough, a powerful new documentary assessing the devastating global impact of overfishing and in particular bottom trawling. If this were anybody else, I might’ve woven into that previous sentence “and shows no signs of slowing down.” But when was ol’ Atto in a hurry?

1 month ago | flicks.co.uk | Rory Doherty |Eliza Janssen |Daniel Rutledge |Clarisse Loughrey

A teen comes home with a recklessly-applied tattoo during an era of a lethal blood-borne disease in Julia Ducournau’s Alpha. Reporting from Cannes, Rory Doherty considers how this new film, with less of an emphasis on body horror, sits among the Palme d’Or winner’s work. Julia Ducournau has followed up winning the Palme d’Or with a film that sees sickness and memory as hungry urges equally capable of driving us off the edge.

1 month ago | flicks.co.uk | Eliza Janssen |Daniel Rutledge |Clarisse Loughrey |Tony Stamp

Reporting from Cannes, Rory Doherty sees just how Wes Anderson’s latest illuminates how his House Style works. Coming to Cinemas - 23 May There are three stages to watching The Phoenician Scheme, a period espionage drama from Wes Anderson. First, the initial, welcome surprise that the King of Quirk has incorporated a classic thriller pulse into his beloved, idiosyncratic rhythms. Then, a sincere worry that the extended anthologised middle will drain your enjoyment.