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The Banshees Of Inisherin (2023) dir. Martin McDonagh - Reviewed by Mason Horsley “Even the worm will turn” - John Heywood It’s a great expression, and one I repeat in my mind regularly. Even the wotOut of fear and out of sick desire. I’m both afraid and eager for the
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Media Centre for Education Research Australia says that kids in school aren’t telling their parents about their experiences around bullying. Recent data as part of News Corp's 2025 Great Australian Parent Survey says that 50% of parents report that their child has suffered due to bullying before
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One might consider the music biopic to be a formulaic and easy genre to produce. Of course, it’s an incredibly expensive genre, what with song licences and massive stadium sets to construct, but on paper, the structure feels incredibly similar. A music biopic will usually follow a rags-to-
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“I've studied the form of comics intimately. I've spent a third of my life in a hospital bed... with nothing else to do but read. I believe comics are our last link... to an ancient way of passing on history. The Egyptians drew on walls. Countries
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My first draft of this review went something like this: ‘Brüno is crude, bigoted, and completely insensitive, and it would be a terrible idea for you to watch it’. I did make the concession that it was funny - the funniest film I saw last year, probably - but reckoned this an
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Kramer Vs Kramer (1979) dir. Robert Benton While many courtroom dramas focus on social issues impacting the world on a grand scale, I believe the most effective focus is on smaller, everyday legal issues. While it was incredibly impactful to see such a catastrophic case in ‘Trial Of The Chicago
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Like it or not, the film business is one of investments. In Hollywood, art has to take a backseat until the producers and studios are happy and feeling safe with their money. They just gave you 100 million dollars, you can’t just release whatever you want. It wasn’t
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There’s something about the Noir genre that always entices. Perhaps it’s the romanticisation of cold, silent gentlemen who aren’t afraid to play dirty (who, in any other situation would be treated as thugs or creeps). Perhaps it’s the more pessimistic look, displaying the world around us
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Contact (1997) dir. Robert Zemeckis “I’ll tell you one thing about the universe, though. The universe is a pretty big place. It’s bigger than anything anyone has ever dreamed of before. So if it’s just us… seems like an awful waste of space. Right?” Science fiction has
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As I was working through the entirety of Kevin Smith’s View Askew series last month, I stumbled across a film I hadn’t noticed the other three or so times I did that in the last year. It was black-and-white, grainy, obviously very low budget and, in
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About a week ago, Daniel propositioned Film Review Fridays with its most ambitious publication yet: a final 9 mini-reviews to cap off the year. 3 reviews from each of the 3 film reviewers on movies that have meant so much to them this year, a way to end with
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I have never been one for animated films. I know for some people, they’re the only kind of films; studios like Disney/Pixar and Dreamworks continue to be popular among children and adults alike. Maybe for some of these people, they represent nostalgia, the innocence of childhood; for others