In the vast landscape of television, certain shows rise above the rest, leaving an indelible […]
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Fast X: Slow & Boring As Hell
The Fast & Furious franchise has captivated audiences for nearly two decades with its high-octane […]
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Best Film & TV of 2021
Best Film & TV of 2021 Best Films Dune Power of the Dog Don’t Look […]
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Best Film & TV of 2020
Best Films Palm Springs Soul Vast of the Night Sound of Metal Beastie Boys Story […]
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Best Films of 2019
Having not yet seen Bong Joon-Ho’s critically-acclaimed Parasite yet, I already feel like this list […]
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Best Films of 2018
Writing this list I realised that being a new dad has really curbed my allocated […]
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Avengers: Infinity War
5/5 It’s easy to shit on the common blockbuster these days, with the amount of […]
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Best Films of 2017
As always, here are my favourite films from 2017. Seeing as I’ve only posted two […]
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How Heavy This Hammer
Imagine Tony Soprano had no affiliation with the mob; instead of spending time amidst criminals […]
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Best Films of 2016
2016 was a pretty shitty year: we lost a lot of talented people and a […]
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Music: The Best of 2016
Every year I usually put together my list of the best albums and tracks from […]
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X-Men: Apocalypse
Rating: 2/5 Bryan Singer’s first X-Men film, back in 2000, was among the first big […]
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The Nice Guys
Rating: 3/5 Shane Black loves a “buddy cop” film. After all, he’s kind of responsible […]
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Top Films of 2015
Better late than never… here’s my annual list of the best films from the year […]
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Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Rating: 4/5 Rest assured, this is a spoiler-free review. This is intended for the fans that […]
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Black Mass
Rating: 4/5 Black Mass is the true story of James “Whitey” Bulger, the infamous gangster […]
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Ex Machina Review
Rating: 3/5 Alex Garland is the acclaimed author of The Beach, the same novel that […]
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Avengers: Age of Ultron
Rating: 4.5/5 The first Avengers film pulled off the impressive feat of bringing together Marvel’s […]
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Top 10 Films of 2014
It’s that time of year when critics reflect on all the time they’ve wasted watching […]
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The Rolling Stones, Rod Laver Arena
Wednesday, 05 November 2014 For anyone who thinks The Rolling Stones are over-rated I can […]
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22 Jump Street Review
Chris Miller and Phil Lord made this sequel bigger and better in every aspect but […]
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Questions Remaining Unanswered After X-Men: Days of Future Past
Let’s not beat around the bush… Bryan Singer’s latest instalment in the X-Men franchise is […]
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The Trip to Italy
This film will make you want to travel, eat, learn, read and watch classic cinema… […]
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The Double
Rating: 2/5 This is the try-hard hipster of all films. It’s desperately trying to be […]
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Everything You Need to Know About Sony’s Amazing Spider-Man Universe…
The Amazing Spider-Man 2: Rise of Electro is an impressive popcorn blockbuster. The action is […]
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The Wolf of Wall Street
Funny, intense, crazy, quick and smart as hell, thanks to a brilliant script based on […]
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13 Best Films of 2013
I know I’m a little late with this, but it’s always good to look back […]
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
If you ignore that essentially the idea of “The Hunger Games” is stolen from Kinji Fukasaku’s […]
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Thor: The Dark World
It was always the intention of the Thor series to be Marvel’s “fantasy epic” and […]
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A Beginner’s Guide: Travelling to Japan for the First Time
Firstly, congratulations on choosing Japan as your next holiday destination – you won’t regret it. […]
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Thanks For Sharing
Thanks For Sharing This is the debut from director Stuart Blumberg, who wrote The Kids […]
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Kick-Ass 2
I made the mistake of watching the original Kick-Ass the day before watching the sequel. […]
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Interview with Thor
In November 2013, Thor: The Dark World will hit cinemas around the world, with Chris Hemsworth returning […]
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Downloaded
I remember when I first discovered Napster as a teenager. Being from a small town, […]
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Weekly Round-Up #3
This is a weekly round-up of all the random stuff from around the web… Mad […]
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News from Comic-Con 2013
Comic-Con just came to an end for another year, with over 130,000 people gathering in […]
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The Best Songs in Movies
Good music to a film is kind of like tomato sauce on a meat pie… […]
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Weekly Round-up #2
Another week, another collection of random crap from the net. I’d laugh about the fact […]
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Rolling Stones Mix Tape
The Rolling Stones just rocked the shit out of Glastonbury Music Festival last week, and […]
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This Is The End
There’s one scene in This Is the End, where James Franco and Danny McBride arguing […]
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Weekly Round-Up #1
This is a weekly collection of best bits from around the web… some of it […]
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2013 MIFF Program
FILM FEATURE The MIFF program gets announced tomorrow morning – and having had a […]
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Unknown Mortal Orchestra – II
ALBUM REVIEW The more I listen to this album, the more I love it. At […]
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Superman is Thor!
FILM REVIEW Hopefully most people reading this have already seen Zack […]
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Iron Man 3
FILM REVIEW Iron Man 3 is the first film of Marvel’s Phase 2, which carries […]
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Olympus Has Fallen
FILM REVIEW The best thing about this movie is that I can now confidently say […]
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Django Unchained
As a self-taught director and general film lover, Quentin Tarantino has paid homage to various […]
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Cosmopolis
The best thing about this film is that it is bound to disappoint a million […]
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Friends With Kids
As with Ocean’s Twelve and Ocean’s Thirteen, I was expecting Friends With Kids to be […]
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The Avengers
FILM REVIEW Whether you like superhero movies or not, you have to appreciate what Marvel Studios have […]
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The Hunger Games
FILM REVIEW With the Twilight series ending this year, Hollywood saw an opening to launch for a […]
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows
FILM REVIEW As with all sequels these days, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows brings more exotic […]
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The Future
FILM REVIEW Miranda July understands what quirky is, perhaps better than any other director/actor working today. […]
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Our Idiot Brother
FILM REVIEW Paul Rudd is a very loveable guy. But after his big break as the […]
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The Hunter
FILM REVIEW Based on the acclaimed novel by Julia Leigh, The Hunter tells the story of Martin (Willem […]
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The Three Muskateers
FILM REVIEW They could have just named this Pirates of the Caribbean: The Three Musketeers. […]
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TT3D: Closer to the Edge
FILM REVIEW Forget about Real Steel, TT3D: Closer to the Edge is the best movie about man and […]
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Katalyst – Deep Impressions
ALBUM REVIEW Part of Katalyst’s appeal is that he finds vocalists who are not only […]
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Crazy, Stupid, Love
FILM REVIEW Before watching Crazy, Stupid, Love, you wouldn’t be wrong in thinking that you’d seen […]
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13 Assassins
FILM REVIEW Much like honour and courage, the Japanese samurai epic is something that cannot […]
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The Green Lantern
FILM REVIEW Just when you thought Hollywood was done investing in Ryan Reynold’s cocky routine or […]
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Harry Potter and The Deathly Hollows: Part 2
FILM REVIEW The final Harry Potter was not the epic spectacle I was hoping for but it […]
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The Tree of Life
FILM REVIEW This is the most beautiful piece of shit I’ve ever seen. And apart […]
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Washed Out – Within and Without
ALBUM REVIEW The chill-wave scene became overcrowded quickly, but Atlanta’s Washed Out (alias of Ernest […]
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X-Men: First Class
FILM REVIEW The original X-Men movie, with Hugh Jackman and Halle Berry, kicked off Hollywood’s comic book obsession and still […]
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Smoke Fairies – Through Low Light and Trees
ALBUM REVIEW The truth is that I write for something of an alternative music magazine, […]
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The Dodos – No Color
ALBUM REVIEW Even though The Dodos have maintained the same drum-heavy rhythm across four albums, […]
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Nick Batterham – Second Lovers
ALBUM REVIEW With a lengthy band resume up his sleeve, including Cordazine, Blindside and The […]
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The Stillsons
MUSIC FEATURE For local country-roots band The Stillsons, the road has been long and bumpy […]
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Triple J’s Like A Version: Volume 6
ALBUM REVIEW The Like A Version series has become a pretty big deal. And why wouldn’t it? […]
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Ronnie Wood – I Feel Like Playing
ALBUM REVIEW Ronnie Wood has featured regularly in the media over the past decade. If […]
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Aloe Blacc – Good Things
ALBUM REVIEW With the recent release of John Legend and The Roots’ Wake Up, it seems […]
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John Legend – Wake Up!
MUSIC REVIEW During the hype of the Obama election, John Legend and hip-hop favourites, The […]