MOVIE REVIEW: HOT MESS (screening as part of Revelation Film Festival) Written & directed by Lucy Coleman Starring Sarah Gaul, Marshall Campbell, Zoe Carides Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 80% Essentially a talk piece, director Lucy Coleman’s debut is a striking and insightful slice of suburban melodrama. Sarah Gaul plays Loz, a 25-year old playwright who […]
MOVIE REVIEW: KURSK (screening as part of Revelation Film Festival) Written by Robert Rodat & Robert Moore Directed by Thomas Vinterberg Starring Matthias Schoenaerts, Léa Seydoux, Peter Simonischek, Max von Sydow Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 86% In August 2000 the Russian submarine Kursk was sunk after an unstable torpedo accidentally detonated on board whilst the […]
REVELATION PERTH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL – 100% ROCK’s TOP MUSIC PICKS By Shane Pinnegar Our lovely sponsors, The Revelation Perth International Film Festival, have a superb line-up of movies and seminars for you to enjoy this month. Here’s our pick of the top music-related flicks to spend your time with. First up, a rare […]
MOVIE REVIEW: RUDEBOY – THE STORY OF TROJAN RECORDS (screening as part of Revelation Film Festival) Directed by Nicholas Jack Davies Starring Song-Hung Chang, Andrew Dwayne, Toots Hibbert, Matthew Jacobs Morgan, Don Letts, Lee ‘Scratch’ Perry Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 77% Through interviews, dramatisations and archival footage, Rudeboy tells the story of Trojan Records, which […]
MOVIE REVIEW: ROCKETMAN Written by Lee Hall, Directed by Dexter Fletcher Starring Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 80% The world of this ultra-musical-theatre biopic of Elton John is a fantastical magical reality version of reality where young Reggie Dwight conducts an orchestra from his bed and breaks into a full […]
MOVIE REVIEW: ALADDIN Written by John August & Guy Ritchie Directed by Guy Ritchie Starring Will Smith, Mena Massoud, Naomi Scott Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 70% The poster for this ultramegabudget live action do-over of Aladdin tells us a lot about this movie: an earnest lad, a charming girl, and a cheeky blue dude – […]
MOVIE: JOHN WICK 3 – PARABELLUM Directed by Chad Stahelski Starring Keanu Reeves, Halle Berry, Ian McShane, Lawrence Fishburne, Asia Kate Dillon, Anjelica Huston Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 91% If the second instalment of the ultra-violent fan favourite John Wick franchise expanded on the mythology of the murky underworld of assassins living by a strict […]
MOVIE: 25kmh Directed by Markus Goller Starring Lars Eidinger, Bjarne Mädel, Franka Potente Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 78% Workaholic lawyer Christian and sullen carpenter Georg are an odd couple with thirty years of bitterness between them in this family reunion film with loads of heart. They’ve been estranged for three decades but are reunited awkwardly […]
MOVIE REVIEW: THE AFTERMATH Written by Joe Shrapnel , Anna Waterhouse & Rhidian Brook Directed by James Kent Starring Keira Knightly, Jason Clarke, Alexander Skarsgård Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 45% In the devastated wasteland of Hamburg just five months after the cessation of formal hostilities against the Germans in 1945, piles of rubble and bodies […]
MOVIE REVIEW: SHAZAM! Written by Henry Gayden & Darren Lemke from the D.C. comics created by Bill Parker & C C Beck Directed by David F Sandberg Starring Zachary Levi, Mark Strong, Djimon Hounsou, Asher Angel, Jack Dylan Grazer Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 92% Apart from Wonder Woman and Aquaman, D.C. Comics’ efforts to match […]
MOVIE REVIEW: The Man Who Killed Don Quixote Written by Terry Gilliam & Tony Grisoni Directed by Terry Gilliam Starring Jonathan Pryce, Adam Driver, Stellan Skarsgård, Olga Kurylenko Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 70% Terry Gilliam’s The Man Who Killed Don Quixote comes bundled with a crushing weight of expectation. Long held up as an example […]
MOVIE: DUMBO Written by Directed by Tim Burton Starring Colin Farrell, Danny DeVito, Michael Keaton, Eva Green, Alan Arkin, and the most adorable CGI elephant ever Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 78% Tim Burton and Walt Disney’s big-eared flying elephant prove a solid match in this rather simple but definitely enjoyable live action (read “CGI heavy”) […]
MOVIE: CAPTAIN MARVEL Written by Anna Boden, Ryan Fleck & Geneva Robertson-Dworet Directed by Anna Boden & Ryan Fleck Starring Brie Larson, Samuel L Jackson, Ben Mendelsohn, Jude Law, Annette Benning Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 92% In a culture which has been dominated far, far too long by toxic masculinity and sexism, Captain Marvel (and […]
MOVIE: PET SEMATARY Written by Matt Greenburg & Jeff Buhler from the novel by Stephen King Directed by Kevin Kölsch & Dennis Widmyer Starring Jason Clarke, John Lithgow, Amy Seimetz, Jeté Laurence Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 82% It’s a precarious business, remaking a favourite – some may say classic – film from many people’s formative […]
MOVIE REVIEW: HOTEL MUMBAI Directed by Anthony Maras Written by John Collee & Anthony Maras Starring Dev Patel, Armie Hammer, Nazanin Boniadi, Jason Isaacs Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 93% Forget evil spirits and undead witches, true horror exists in this world in the shape of terrorism, an evil scourge whose fanatical perpetrators can strike anywhere […]
MOVIE REVIEW: RALPH BREAKS THE INTERNET Directed by Phil Johnstone, Rich Moore Starring Sarah Silverman, John C Reilly, Gal Gadot Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 69% Underneath all the this-one-goes-up-to-eleven product placement and giddy sugar high colour-and-flashbulb visual-explosiveness that is Ralph Breaks The Internet, is a pretty fun movie with a little something for kids and […]
MOVIE REVIEW: COLD PURSUIT Written by Frank Baldwin & Kim Fupz Aakeson Directed by Hans Peter Moland Starring Liam Neeson, Laura Dern, Tom Bateman, Tom Jackson Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 82% Liam Neeson has carved himself a niche in recent years, specialising in family revenge flicks such as the Taken series, and in Cold Pursuit […]
MOVIE REVIEW: GLASS Written & Directed by M Night Shyamalan Starring Bruce Willis, James McAvoy, Samuel L Jackson, Anya Taylor-Joy, Sarah Paulson Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 76% Back in the good graces of the studio system, M Night Shyamalan throws everything he has at this sequel to not one but two of his greatest films. […]
MOVIE REVIEW: AQUAMAN Directed by James Wan Starring Jason Momoa, Nicole Kidman, Temuera Morrison, Amber Heard, Willem Dafoe, Dolph Lundgren Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 83% With the lost kingdom of Atlantis, warring underwater races, incredible visuals, an epic love story (or two), an admirably strong anti-pollution message, pirates, trident duels, oceans ablaze, marine animals aplenty […]
MOVIE REVIEW: SWIMMING WITH MEN Written by Aschlin Ditta Directed by Oliver Parker Starring Rob Brydon, Rupert Graves, Jim Carter, Jane Horrocks 73% When the abject mundanity of every facet of Eric Scott (TV fave Rob Brydon)’s middle-aged existence gets too overwhelming, he joins – somewhat reluctantly – a men’s synchronised swimming team. As you […]
