After the presumed pressure of helming a Star Wars feature, not to mention the toxic aftermath that surrounded the divisive Last Jedi, the fun evident within writer/director Rian Johnson's Knives Out can't help but be more pointedly noticeable given what he was previously subjected to. Returning to the genre that birthed his film career, Knives Out is very much Johnson … [Read more...] about Knives Out – Film Review
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Big Glittery Sh*t Show – Wonderland Festival 2019
Beginning with a scantily-clad attired man snorting glitter as if it was cocaine, ending with a dance number complete with an over-sized rubber ducky, and featuring knife juggling, a disturbingly aerobic trampoline number, and a game of darts that opts to use sex toys instead in-between, Big Glittery Shit Show is definitely not your parents' variety show! If you're prepared to … [Read more...] about Big Glittery Sh*t Show – Wonderland Festival 2019
Die Hard: The Movie, The Play – Wonderland Festival 2019
Yippee-ki-yay, movie lovers! Having already tested their limited budget constraints and willing audience participation levels on previous film-to-stage "adaptations" Speed: The Movie, The Play and Titanic: The Movie, The Play, Brisbane-based interactive specialist group Act/React bring new life to the classic that is 1988's Die Hard. The immortal, singlet-wearing, bare-footed … [Read more...] about Die Hard: The Movie, The Play – Wonderland Festival 2019
Fisherman’s Friends – Film Review
Fisherman's Friends, one of those predictable feel-good true story tales that recounts the type of event better suited to a morning show segment rather than being extended for 112 minutes, ticks so many boxes in terms of what narrative beats to hit that it feels more design-by-committee rather than an organic telling. Given that it is based on a true story though it's … [Read more...] about Fisherman’s Friends – Film Review
Arctic Justice – Film Review
https://youtu.be/2DKq7GkxwYA Arctic Justice is a computer-animated comedy film co-written and directed by Aaron Woodley. In the small town of Taigaville in the arctic circle, Swifty the Arctic Fox (Jeremy Renner) longs to become a Top Dog courier for the Arctic Blast Delivery Service like his hero, Duke (Michael Madson) the husky. The only work he can get, however, is on … [Read more...] about Arctic Justice – Film Review