Travis Johnson

1 month ago | flicks.com.au | Travis Johnson |Liam Maguren |Eliza Janssen |Dominic Corry

Clarisse Loughrey’s Show of the Week column spotlights a new show to watch or skip. This week: The season two finale of The Rehearsal takes an elaborate trip to a very specific destination. WARNING: Contains major spoilers for season two – including the final episode. There’s an intense and specific mania that Nathan Fielder’s work tends to provoke in people. Everyone’s aware that in Nathan for You and The Rehearsal, Fielder is playing the character of “Nathan Fielder”.

1 month ago | flicks.com.au | Rory Doherty |Travis Johnson |Clarisse Loughrey |Liam Maguren

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.com.au | Eliza Janssen |Luke Buckmaster |Travis Johnson |Clarisse Loughrey

“You must watch a lot of movies”. I hear this phrase a lot, usually after I’ve just dazzled a room by dropping some sort of movie knowledge bomb. I do see a lot of movies, but only slightly more than the average person I reckon. Most of my fundamental movie knowledge comes from books. In the internet age, when a lot of movie information is readily accessible, it can be easy to dismiss the value of books about movies.

1 month ago | 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.

1 month ago | flicks.com.au | Matt Glasby |Travis Johnson |Steve Newall |Clarisse Loughrey

Matt Glasby’s monthly column How to… turns a sly, critical eye on how the movie world really works. This month: How to… make a twist movie. There’s a contradiction at the heart of most movie-viewing. On one hand, films offer us an escape from the crushing predictability of life. On the other, most mainstream efforts are so formulaic you could feed them to a baby.