“I even tried phone sex, but they were engaged.” This has a little of “Harvey” (1950) to it, only it’s not an invisible rabbit but an invisible girlfriend (“Poppy”) that becomes the apple of the eye of “Pete” (Noël Fielding). He has a particularly full relationship with this fictitious lass, until she declares over breakfast in a café one morning that she is pregnant. The shellshocked “Pete” doesn’t react so well, so they split up. Initially devastated and desperate to woo her back, he then encounters “Daisy” (Suzy Bloom) and soon they are at it like rabbits too, not that she seems overly impr…
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Time hasn’t been especially kind to this, but it is still a groundbreaking piece of light-heartedness that almost single-handedly kickstarted a renaissance in Australian cinema. Riddled with stereotypes, it tells the tale of an American journalist “Sue” (Linda Kozlowski) who reads of a famed Aussie crocodile hunter (Paul Hogan) and sets off to interview him. Assuming he is something of a yokel, she arrives to find he is perfectly prepared to play that part, ably assisted by his mate “Walter” (the frequently scene-stealing John Meillon) and make her feel suitably superior. Of course, as the plo…
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## **In the Dark (2019) Review: A Gritty, Unconventional Crime Solver - 8/10**
*In the Dark* is a show that defies easy categorisation, blending the procedural crime drama with pitch-black comedy and a deeply flawed, yet irresistibly compelling, protagonist. It’s a series that isn’t afraid to let its main character be unlikable, making her journey all the more fascinating and, against all odds, deeply human.
### The Premise: A Blind Witness in a Seedy World
The series follows Murphy Mason (Perry Mattfeld), a hard-drinking, cynical, and self-destructive blind woman in her t…
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A miscarriage of justice is a truly abhorrent outcome where legal matters are involved. And so it’s particularly ironic and maddening when such a development is rooted in an actual miscarriage itself. Such was the case for 24-year-old Julieta Gomez (Camila Plaate), a woman of modest means from the conservative Tucumán region of Argentina in 2014. In this fact-based story, Julieta is rushed to the hospital with severe abdominal pain and excessive bleeding, unaware that she’s in the process of miscarrying (or even that she’s pregnant). However, while undergoing treatment, she’s falsely accused o…
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96/100
The story revolves around a group of people trapped in a desert motel that start dying off one by one. Both the viewer and the character's in the film come to the same conclusion - this doesn't make any sense. And that's when the twist is revealed. Absolutely brilliant!! Well written with fully fleshed-out characters and exceptional acting. One of my all-time favorite, profoundly twisted films. -- Drnostromo.com…
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50/100
When a Facebook profile, for a girl who committed suicide, is found to still be active, a few girls post some rather scathing comments to the page without considering that you can't take it back. I was liking this film for a good distance; the characters were real and smart, the events were interesting and it appeared to be headed to a nice finale. Unfortunately, the last 30 minutes didn't meet expectations leaving me bored and edgy in equal measure and the final scene simply elicited a heavy sigh. Too bad they couldn't have made a more sophisticated endgame. -- DrNostromo.com…
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With his young daughter in need of some basic medication that he and his wife cannot afford, “Richards” (Glen Powell) sets off to enrol in the most taxing of television game shows. If he can stay alive for thirty days, he will win a gazillion new dollars and be able to live, with his family, like a king. Of course, he learns fairly quickly that this will never be a fair fight as the show’s boss “Killian” (Josh Brolin) makes quite clear. This is going to be brutal stuff, with the population actively encouraged to report his whereabouts for a cash bonus, so the goons or the “hunters” can come an…
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Acclaimed surgeon “Kimble” (Harrison Ford) is used to the finer things in life, but not to the back of a prison van where he finds himself after being convicted of murdering his wealthy wife. Of course he protests his innocence, but it’s the chair for him - until, unexpectedly, his transportation makes an unscheduled stop and following the ensuing fracas he manages to escape. The local cops are content that all are accounted for, but Chicago Marshall “Gerard” (Tommy Lee Jones) spots an extra set of leg irons and quickly deduces that the good doctor has got away. Now he isn’t supposed to be a m…
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There’s a line at the end of this that asks whether or not we’ll ever have better friends in our lives than we did at the age of twelve? Spouses notwithstanding, it’s probably quite a fair assertion as illustrated by these four lads. They are from different sides of the tracks, literally, in a small town Oregon where a lad their own age has gone missing. Determined to do their bit to help - and fuelled by a slightly morbid curiosity - “Chris” (River Phoenix), “Gordie” (Wil Wheaton), “Teddy” (Corey Feldman) and “Vern” (Jerry O’Connell) set off to see if they can’t become the heroes of the hour.…
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**_A high school graduation party at a mansion in Wichita is invaded by killers_**
Shot in the spring of 1986, this is a cheap slasher with no-name actors that inexplicably begins by throwing in scenes from “Graduation Day” from five years earlier. That slasher is more all-around entertaining compared to this.
It thankfully includes the expected staples of the genre, plus throws in a decent (albeit unbelievable) twist at the end, but the main villain is hammy and unconvincing, not to mention the proceedings are generally dull. The script needed a rewrite to flush out interest. So…
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