MOVIE: TERROR NULLIUS (as part of Revelation Film Festival 2018) Written & Directed by Soda Jerk Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 9 ½ /10 To call the Soda Jerk collective’s radical mashup of modern Australian film a rogue “unwriting of Australian national mythology” is to only tell part of the story. Literally hundreds of scenes from […]
MOVIE: STOOGE (as part of Revelation Film Festival 2018) Written & directed by Madeleine Farley Starring Robert Partiger, Iggy Pop Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 7/10 Shot over several years, Madeleine Farley’s documentary follows obsessed Stooges fan Robert Partiger as he attempts to meet his hero Iggy Pop. In search of some kind of redemption after […]
MOVIE: THE LAST DETAIL (as part of Revelation Film Festival 2018) Written by Robert Towne from the novel by Richard Ponsican Directed by Hal Ashby Starring Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, Randy Quaid, Carol Kane Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 8/10 Hal Ashby’s 1973 film The Last Detail shines an illuminating light on an America in a […]
MOVIE: ANT-MAN AND THE WASP Written by Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Paul Rudd, Andrew Barrer, Gabriel Ferrari Directed by Peyton Reed Starring Paul Rudd, Evangeline Lilly, Michael Doulas, Michelle Pfeiffer, Laurence Fishburne, Bobby Cannavale, Hannah John-Kamen, Walton Goggins Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 8/10 The years and nineteen mega-squillion-dollar blockbusters later, and the bottom shows no […]
MOVIE: BROTHERS’ NEST Written by Jaime Brown with Chris Pahlow Directed by Clayton Jacobsen Starring Shane Jacobsen, Clayton Jacobsen, Kym Gyngell Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 8/10 The Jacobsen brothers team up for the first time since 2006’s Kenny to produce this darker-than-dark comedy thriller about two brothers attempting murder. On a misty country morning brothers […]
MOVIE: THE BREAKER UPPERERS Written & Directed by Madeleine Sami and Jackie van Beek Starring Madeleine Sami, Jackie van Beek, James Rolleston, Celia Pacquola Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 8 ½ /10 Breaking up is hard to do, as we all know, so what a brilliantly simple concept Kiwi comedians Madeleine Sami and Jackie van Beek […]
REV FILM FEST REVIEW: OUR NEW PRESIDENT Directed by Maxim Pozdorovkin Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 7/10 Bizarre, hilarious and jaw-droppingly WTF in turns, Our New president is a challenging new documentary from Maxim Pozdorovkin which cobbles together Russian State Television footage and YouTube/home movie-sourced snippets and songs from Russian people to tell the story of […]
DVD: THE SOLOIST Directed by Joe Wright Starring Robert Downey Jr, Jamie Foxx, Catherine Keener Shock Entertainment 2017 Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 6 ½ /10 Jamie Foxx delivers a striking performance as Nathaniel Ayers, a homeless man ‘discovered’ playing 2-string violin on the sidewalk by LA Times columnist Steve Lopez. Based on a true story, […]
DVD REVIEW: DEADLY BLESSING Directed by Wes Craven Written by Glenn M Benest, Matthew Barr & Wes Craven Starring Maren Jensen, Sharon Stone, Susan Buckner, Ernest Borgnine, Michael Berryman Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 7/10 Ernest Borgnine is at his creepy and malicious best in this Wes Craven effort from 1981, which also features a young […]
DVD REVIEW: THE FUNHOUSE Shock Entertainment Directed by Tobe Hooper Starring a whole bunch of people you probably don’t know Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 4/10 Just because he made Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Poltergeist, doesn’t mean everything he touched was gold. Tobe Hooper made The Funhouse, inexplicably, only a year before Poltergeist – and it […]
DVD REVIEW: L.A.M.F. Live at the Bowery Electric MVD Entertainment December 2017 Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 8.5/10 L.A.M.F. stood for Like A Mother Fucker, and was the only studio album by Johnny Thunders and The Heartbreakers – featuring former New York Dolls Thunders and Jerry Nolan, Billy Rath and Walter Lure – recorded in the […]
MOVIE: BESIDE BOWIE – THE MICK RONSON STORY MVD Visuals, DVD & BluRay, Directed by Jon Brewer Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 8/10 A fascinating and in-depth portrayal of the career of Mick Ronson, which paints the guitarist, songwriter, arranger and producer as a lovely, down to earth guy, stellar influential musician not given his credit […]
MOVIE: DEADPOOL 2 Directed by David Leitch Starring Ryan Reynolds, Josh Brolin, Morena Baccarin, Julian Dennison, Zazie Beetz Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 8.5/10 Let’s get the big question out of the way, then we can talk about the important stuff: No, Deadpool 2 is not as good as the first film. Ahhh, it feels good […]
LIVE: WASO PLAYS HARRY POTTER & THE PRISONER OF AZKABAN Riverside Theatre, Perth, Western Australia – 4 May, 2018 Reviewed by Trulie & Tia Pinnegar The concept of watching a movie with a world class orchestra playing the soundtrack proved to be very interesting at The Riverside Theatre tonight, and we spent some time thinking, […]
DVD: SERPICO Directed by Sidney Lumet Starring Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe Shock Entertainment Dec 2017 Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 9/10 Based on Paul Maas’s biography of NYPD cop Frank Serpico, who went from uniformed beat cop to undercover detective and regaled against the deeply ingrained corruption in the force, Serpico was a breakout […]
MOVIE: I FEEL PRETTY Written & directed by Abby Kohn, Marc Silverstein Starring Amy Schumer, Michelle Williams, Lauren Hutton, Emily Ratajkowski, Rory Scovel Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 3/10 There’s a really positive, empowering message about being beautiful on the inside at the heart of I Feel Pretty, but just like the patronising title, it’s been […]
MOVIE: RED SPARROW Directed by Francis Lawrence Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Joel Edgerton, Matthias Schoenaerts, Jeremy Irons Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 8 ½ /10 Red Sparrow, starring Jennifer Lawrence, has more than a few echoes of Nikita, and enough difference to allow it to stand on its own two feet. Dominique is the star of the […]
MOVIE: ISLE OF DOGS Screenplay by Wes Anderson Directed by Wes Anderson Starring Bryan Cranston, Edward Norton, Koyu Rankin, Bill Murray, Jeff Goldblum, Frances McDormand, Scarlett Johansson, Harvey Keitel Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 8 ½ /10 Wes Anderson’s latest stop motion film, Isle Of Dogs, is a visual and comedic delight, with the added bonus […]
MOVIE: SUPER TROOPERS 2 Written by Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Hefferman, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stohlhanske Directed by Jay Chandrasekhar Starring Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Hefferman, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stohlhanske, Brian Cox Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 6 ½ /10 Super Troopers became a smash cult stoner/slacker hit way back in 2001, and finally the […]
DVD REVIEW: THE FAN Shock Entertainment, December 2017 Directed by Tony Scott Starring Robert De Niro, Wesley Snipes, Ellen Barkin Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 6/10 This 1996 film sadly suffers from a disappointing case of being less than the sum of its impressive parts. Following De Niro’s struggling knife salesman Gil Renard as he obsesses […]
