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3 days ago | 
flicks.co.uk | David Brown |Vicci Ho |Daniel Rutledge |Clarisse Loughrey
Clarisse Loughrey’s Show of the Week column spotlights a new show to watch or skip. This week: The Last of Us returns for season two. The hard lesson of our era is how unnervingly easy it is to find normalcy while the world outside our window burns.
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Oct 16, 2024 | 
flicks.com.au | Liam Maguren |Eliza Janssen |David Brown |Luke Buckmaster
Is Apple’s new short film Submerged, available on its Vision Pro headset, a vision of the future of entertainment? Luke Buckmaster dives in, weighing up the good and the bad. The first scripted video produced for the Apple Vision Pro is a 17 minute short set on a submarine, during WWII, where all hell breaks loose when a torpedo attack hits.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
flicks.com.au | David Brown |Daniel Rutledge |Luke Buckmaster |Rory Doherty
Jeremy Saulnier (Green Room) writes, directs and edits new Netflix action-thriller Rebel Ridge. Steve Newall is impressed by this First Blood riff. There ought to be some kind of police training programme for this. Time and time again on screen, small town cops pick the wrong guy to fuck with—and, before you know it, we’ve got another First Blood on our hands. According to that description, Rebel Ridge is another First Blood too—to our good fortune, it’s an excellent one.
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Aug 18, 2024 | 
flicks.com.au | Luke Buckmaster |David Brown |Eliza Janssen |Liam Maguren
The Special Jury award-winner at SXSW 2024, We Were Dangerous tells the story of a band of teenagers in 1954 New Zealand who attempt to escape an institution for delinquent girls. The film’s powered by a burning sense of sisterhood, Liam Maguren writes, with its three talented leads adding buckets of fuel to the fire.
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Jul 18, 2024 | 
flicks.com.au | Clarisse Loughrey |Travis Johnson |Steve Newall |David Brown
After finding out about the musical legend’s love of The Matrix, Steve Newall sits down with Sir Dave Dobbyn to chat about one of his favourite films as it turns 25. Sir Dave Dobbyn photo by Tom GrutI’m not sure exactly when—or how—this happened. Peter Urlich and Phoebe Falconer are hosting a music quiz at the Grey Lynn Returned Services Club, and outside I find myself talking to Sir Dave Dobbyn.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
flicks.com.au | David Brown
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
flicks.com.au | David Brown |Steve Newall |Clarisse Loughrey |Stephen Russell
A spider’s growing appetite for flesh is matched by a wild increase in size in new Aussie horror Sting. Eliza Janssen finds out all about it from arachnophobe director Kiah Roche-Turner and its star, seasoned horror veteran Ryan Corr. Sting (2024) Coming to Cinemas - 18 July We’re told that spiders, like most frightening-looking fauna, are more scared of us than we are of them.
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May 14, 2024 | 
brnw.ch | Eliza Janssen |Luke Buckmaster |David Brown |Adam Fresco
Based on a true story, New Zealand writer-director James Napier Robertson’s Joika follows a promising American ballerina as she goes through the gauntlet of the Bolshoi Academy. As Liam Maguren writes, the film delivers plenty of squirm-inducing suspense and a compelling moral quagmire. Joika Coming to Cinemas - 16 May There have been numerous stories about the brutality of ballet; the effortless grace of the dance and the poisonous pursuit of perfection make for a potent pairing.
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May 13, 2024 | 
brnw.ch | Luke Buckmaster |David Brown |Adam Fresco |Eliza Janssen
In new “dark comedy” Bodkin, true crime podcasters get in over their heads investigating a small Irish town’s cold case. But does the show have an intriguing original mystery to share, or any real insight to the true crime genre’s moral flaws? Eliza Janssen reviews the first four episodes, just to be sure, to be sure. The reason Guinness is Ireland’s most popular brew, we’re informed in an early episode of Netflix mystery Bodkin, is that it forces us to wait.
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May 4, 2024 | 
flicks.com.au | David Brown |Clarisse Loughrey |Stephen Russell |Steve Newall
Each month, new films and TV shows are added to Amazon Prime Video‘s Australian library. Eliza Janssen presents her picks for titles worth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down. Top picksThis isn’t the first movie we’ve ever seen that originated as sweaty Wattpad fanfiction. Hell, it’s not even the first one to be based specifically on what seems to be Harry Styles fanfiction.
