(Film Review) 'Encanto' (2021)
Encanto has all the things we have come to love about Disney films; great characters, heartfelt music and a story with great morals. But...
(Film Review) 'Burning' (2021)
If not for the interviews in this film, you could quite honestly mistake this documentary for some sort of horror movie. The film opens...
(Film Review) Ladri Di Biciclette / The Bicycle Thieves (1948)
De Sica’s ‘The Bicycle Thieves’ is a poetic story of personal struggle and tragedy that follows the journey of Antonio and his son Bruno,...
(Film Review) La Strada (1954)
Fellini’s ‘La Strada’ could be seen, as the title suggests, as the original road movie, or at least as an Italian neorealist version of...
(Essay) Paranoid & Hysterical Hollywood of the 1950’s and 2000s
How did Hollywood address the paranoid, hysterical political climate of the 1950’s and is that being continued in post-9/11 Hollywood...
(Essay) Is the Australian Gothic a unique genre in Australia’s National Cinema?
Is the Australian Gothic a unique genre in Australian’s National Cinema. How does the use of landscape and themes work to connect with or...
(Video Essay) The HUAC Guide to Aliens & Pod People.
An exploration of cold war America in Hollywood's Science Fiction film.
(Video Essay) Australian National Cinema: Picnic at Hanging Rock.
An exploration of 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' as a Renaissance and Australian National Cinema film.
(Film Review) Godzilla (2014)
"The arrogance of men is thinking nature is in their control and not the other way around" - Dr. Ichiro Serizawa Disguised as a creature...
(Essay) The Horror Genre: ‘What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?'
“Sister, sister, oh so fair, why is there blood all over your hair?” : A Look into ‘What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?’ and the Horror...