Matt Glasby

1 week ago | flicks.co.uk | Daniel Rutledge |Luke Buckmaster |Clarisse Loughrey |Matt Glasby

Clarisse Loughrey’s Show of the Week column spotlights a new show to watch or skip. This week: Charlie Brooker’s dystopian tech anthology Black Mirror is back with a new batch of eps. Does Black Mirror still have the power to scare us? A decade ago, it felt like an electric shock applied to the public consciousness: its anthology tales of pig-fucking prime ministers, clownish TV star dictators, and the dead resuscitated by AI were dark, cynical, but just plausible enough.

2 weeks ago | flicks.co.uk | Luke Buckmaster |Matt Glasby |Eliza Janssen |Rory Doherty

Clarisse Loughrey’s Show of the Week column spotlights a new show to watch or skip. This week: Seth Rogen’s Hollywood satire The Studio is the real deal – a show for hardcore cinephiles. Any modern satire about the entertainment industry can be judged by how it treats the world of social media. It separates the artists with their fingers on the pulse from those you suspect haven’t left their compound for a few months. The Studio, under that light, proves itself the real deal.

2 weeks ago | flicks.com.au | Luke Buckmaster |Clarisse Loughrey |Steve Newall |Matt Glasby

With harder stuff than other coming-of-age queer series, new Australian series Invisible Boys really goes there, reports Eliza Janssen. Back in 2017, Australians voted yes on a national plebiscite questioning same-sex couples’ right to marry. In my urban neck of the woods, where every coffee shop has a rainbow flag in its window, this vote seemed like a done deal—practically offensive in the obviousness of its answer.

2 weeks ago | flicks.com.au | Luke Buckmaster |Clarisse Loughrey |Steve Newall |Matt Glasby

Bong Joon-ho, director of Parasite, is back and returns to sci-fi with the satirical Mickey 17. But, in upscaling his vision to Hollywood blockbuster proportions, the trail-blazing Korean director sacrifices edge and poignancy, writes Rory Doherty. The future does not look bright from Bong Joon-ho’s point of view—but you probably knew that before you check out Mickey 17, his darkly comic satire on space colonialism that kills Robert Pattinson 16 times before the story begins.

2 weeks ago | scmp.com | Matt Glasby

This is the latest instalment in our From the Vault feature series, in which we reflect on culturally significant movies celebrating notable anniversaries. At the turn of the millennium, the rise of digital technology allowed filmmakers to do almost anything they wanted. The limits were their imaginations – and the audience’s patience.