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4 weeks ago | 
flicks.co.uk | Steve Newall |Liam Maguren |Dominic Corry |Katie Parker
Clarisse Loughrey’s Show of the Week column spotlights a new show to watch or skip. This week: White House-set whodunnit The Residence. The Residence, Netflix’s new murder mystery series, is full of conspiracies.
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4 weeks ago | 
flicks.com.au | Steve Newall |Liam Maguren |Dominic Corry |Katie Parker
Clarisse Loughrey’s Show of the Week column, published every Friday, spotlights a new show to watch or skip. This week: The new, fourth season of Mythic Quest glides along with the smooth, comforting quality of a sitcom that’s completed its refinement process. It’s laughable, really, that video games are still treated as a cultural niche. It’s a near-$200bn industry that’s talked about as if it were some obscure hobby, fly fishing for nerds, instead of a generalised pastime.
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4 weeks ago | 
flicks.com.au | Liam Maguren |Dominic Corry |Katie Parker |Steve Newall
Clarisse Loughrey’s Show of the Week column, published every Friday, spotlights a new show to watch or skip. This week: Netflix’s latest miniseries about a real life white blonde female scammer, Apple Cider Vinegar. We live in the age of the narcissist. They rule over countries and tech conglomerates. They sneak into inboxes and algorithms. They run amok on dating apps and through friendship circles. In return, we desire to understand them. Preempt them. And, if need be, escape them.
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4 weeks ago | 
flicks.com.au | Liam Maguren |Dominic Corry |Katie Parker |Steve Newall
In monthly column The A-to-Z of Trash, bad movie lover Eliza Janssen takes us on an alphabetically-ordered trip through the best bits of the worst films ever. This month, beat the heat with a visit to the dubious winter wonderland of 2002’s unbelievable Rapsittie Street Kids: Believe in Santa.
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4 weeks ago | 
flicks.com.au | Liam Maguren |Dominic Corry |Katie Parker |Steve Newall
James Ashcroft’s retirement home horror The Rule of Jenny Pen is powered by great performances, writes Tony Stamp. Amongst them is John Lithgow, who reminds us how good he is at being evil. There’s a shot in Brian De Palma’s 1992 movie Raising Cain in which John Lithgow smirks villainously, changing to a look of innocent surprise when another character turns in his direction.
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1 month ago | 
flicks.com.au | Katie Parker |Luke Buckmaster |Clarisse Loughrey |Rory Doherty
The gritty streets of Philly are the backdrop to even grittier new mystery series Long Bright River. David Michael Brown explores the multi-layered, Amanda Seyfried-starring, show.
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1 month ago | 
flicks.com.au | Katie Parker |Luke Buckmaster |Clarisse Loughrey |Rory Doherty
On paper, Gia Coppola’s film about an aging Vegas showgirl—was a perfect late-career recalibration for its star, Pamela Anderson. But Luke Buckmaster was left wanting (a lot) more. The Last Showgirl was clearly intended as a belated vindication of Pamela Anderson acting talents: final, incontrovertible proof that we were wrong to under-estimate her as an empty-headed Baywatch star, bouncing along to the beach to I’m Always There.
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1 month ago | 
flicks.com.au | Katie Parker |Luke Buckmaster |Clarisse Loughrey |Rory Doherty
A massive YA franchise gets a British makeover with My Fault: London. Calling it an English-language remake would sell it a bit short, writes Liam Maguren, who argues it’s more of a reinvigoration. Two years ago, YA Spanish flick Culpa Mía (My Fault) proved itself a global hit on Prime Video with its sequel, Culpa Tuya (Your Fault), releasing a year later.
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1 month ago | 
flicks.com.au | Katie Parker |Luke Buckmaster |Clarisse Loughrey |Rory Doherty
Seen That? Watch This is a semi-regular column from critic Luke Buckmaster, taking a recent release and matching it to comparable works. This week, he looks at the sticky-icky body transformation movies that paved the way for The Substance.
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1 month ago | 
flicks.com.au | Katie Parker |Luke Buckmaster |Clarisse Loughrey |Rory Doherty
We finally get to see this deserving contender for the Best Picture Oscar. An impressed Liam Maguren looks at what makes Nickel Boys so special. There really isn’t a film quite like Nickel Boys. Nominated for two big Oscars at this year’s Academy Awards—Best Picture and Best Adapted Screenplay—director RaMell Ross converts Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel into a stirring piece of cinema that uses a striking first-person perspective.
