Released: 18th March
Seen: 18th March
So it has come to this. On March 18th in 2021, as a result of years of campaigning under the hashtag “Release the Snyder Cut”, WB finally decided to release the Snyder Cut of the Justice League film. Now, here’s the funny thing about that, as a critic my opinion means precisely jack shit regarding this film.
Continue reading “Justice League – The Snyder Cut (2021) – Here We Bloody Go Again”
Soda & Telepaths hooked me up with a screener of the movie Slaxx, which is about Killer Jeans… go read me flailing about this amazing insane movie
Oh look, another thing I wrote for Soda & Telepaths about a weird experimental animated film. Go over and read, I think it’s Lava-ly.
…I’ll show myself out now
Released: 5 March
Seen: 5th March
It might seem weird to the younger generation who only know him as the voice of Donkey from Shrek but back in the 80s it seemed like Eddie Murphy could do no wrong. After his sensational turn on SNL he took over the cinema landscape. For pretty much the entire 80s, if you saw Eddie Murphy’s name on the poster then you were guaranteed a great time. His movies weren’t just hits, they were juggernauts.
Continue reading “Coming 2 America (2021) – Trip Down Memory Lane”
Seen as part of the Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival (Online Screening)
The Prison Industrial Complex is a topic that’s been touched on by many truly fascinating documentaries for a reason, it’s an obscenely messed up system that is often used capriciously against POC and queer people who are just trying to live their lives. In the US it’s particularly awful, they have the largest number of prisoners on the planet and it’s disproportionately people of colour (largely black and Latin men).
Continue reading “Bring Down The Walls (2020) – Another Brick In The Walls”
Released: 4th March
Seen: 4th March
So Hollywood is kind of realising that relying on $100 million dollar films to turn an even bigger profit is an unsustainable business model right now. Thanks to the plague that everywhere but America is taking seriously right now, no one wants to go to cinemas at the moment which means that giant budget films are losing large amounts of money.
Continue reading “Chaos Walking (2021) – Chaos Crawling”
Seen as part of the Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival (Online Screening)
In 1973, the American Psychiatric Association took a vote to remove homosexuality from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM. It was one of the most controversial votes that the board would ever have since homosexuality had been considered a mental illness since the first DSM was printed in 1952. With homosexuality being labelled a mental illness, it was able to be used as an excuse to deny employment or housing or basic rights to an entire class of people. This led to some of the most brutal torture ever done in the name of mental health, and a story that the film Cured tells brilliantly.
Continue reading “Cured (2020) – An Important Piece Of History”
And here comes another review for Soda & Telepaths, this time of a really great horror film that you should watch because I say it’s good, and you trust my opinion on this right?
Seen as part of the Sydney Mardi Gras Film Festival (Online Screening)
The history of gay culture is hard not well recorded, this is almost intentional. Thanks to the way that the community at large was treated by a legal system that revelled in arresting gay people for the crime of existing, keeping records wasn’t a high priority. If one were to have letters or photos that caught moments of queer culture, they were either burned by an angry parent determined to pretend that their departed child was straight, or it was destroyed upon request by the person who wrote the letter who would often add “P.S. Burn This letter please” at the end.
Thankfully, someone in the 1950s ignored this request and kept a hold of a series of letters and photos that described the underground 1950s drag and gay scene and now we have a record of this period of the era when the LGBT community was its most secretive.
Continue reading “P.S. Burn This Letter Please (2020) – And Watch This Film Please”
Released: 19th February
Seen: 21st February
There is no greater evil, at least in my mind than those who take advantage of the elderly and infirm. The top of that list of evil people are known as professional guardians, not all of them (I’m sure some of them are perfectly good people) but we’re talking about the kind of professional guardians who take on a ward who is elderly and is needing help, pay themselves an obscene wage, puts that ward in an aged care home and slowly bleed them dry. To see how evil some of these guardians can be, I’d suggest watching this segment by John Oliver on them. They are so cruel and evil that it almost feels like an inevitable source for a film. I won’t lie, when I saw that I Care A Lot was about a woman who puts elderly people with dementia in a home and drains them of their money I was worried as hell about how it was going to handle this heavy topic. I’m glad to say it’s damn near perfect.
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