BLURAY: THE GUARDIAN Shock Entertainment, June 2018 Written by Dan Greenburg, Stephen Volk & William Friedkin Directed by William Friedkin Starring Jenny Seagrove, Dwier Brown, Carey Lowell Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 57% William Friedkin made his mark with The Exorcist, Cruising and To Live & Die In L.A., all gritty, highly original and striking films. […]
THEATRE REVIEW: THE BOOK OF MORMON Crown Theatre, Perth – 5 September, 2019 Starring Blake Bowden, Nyk Bielak, Tigist Strode, Tyson Jennette, Joel Granger Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 100% The Book Of Mormon has been wowing – and I mean WOWING – crowds around the world for the better part of a decade now, with […]
BLURAY: JUNIOR Shock Entertainment, July 2018 Written by Kevin Wade & Chris Conrad Directed by Ivan Reitman Starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, Danny DeVito & Emma Thompson Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 40% On paper it’s a dream team – DeVito and Schwarzenegger teaming up again after the success of Twins and with a cavalcade of winners between […]
BLURAY: SNOW WHITE: A TALE OF TERROR Shock Entertainment, June 2018 Written by Tom Szollosi & Deborah Sella from the Grimm Brothers tale Directed by Michael Cohn Starring Sigourney Weaver, Sam Neill Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 70% The idea of delving into the dark heart of the Snow White fairytale, originally written by Medieval horror-lovin’ […]
BLURAY: ALIEN HUNTER Shock Entertainment, June 2018 Written by J S Cardone & Boaz Davidson Directed by Ron Krauss Starring James Spader, Janine Eser Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 53% Who can tell why good actors choose to star in average productions, but Alien Hunter doesn’t rate as James Spader’s finest achievement. He plays science cryptologist […]
BLURAY: DRAGNET Shock Entertainment, July 2018 Written by Dan Aykroyd, Alan Zweibel & Tom Mankiewicz Directed by Tom Mankiewicz Starring Dan Aykroyd, Tom Hanks, Christopher Plummer, Harry Morgan, Dabney Coleman, Alexandra Paul Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 68% Dan Aykroyd co-wrote this reboot of the classic ‘50s television series created by and starring Jack Webb. In […]
MOVIE REVIEW: LATE NIGHT Written by Mindy Kaling Directed by Nisha Ganatra Starring Emma Thompson, Mindy Kaling Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 78% We’re at an exciting, pivotal point in history where equality and diversity and representation are more important than ever, and no-one is better experienced to provide an astute, real comic view than Mindy […]
MOVIE REVIEW: DANGER CLOSE – The Battle Of Long Tan Written by Stuart Beattie, James Nicholas, Karel Segers, Paul Sullivan & Jack Brislee Directed by Kriv Stenders Starring Travis Fimmel, Richard Roxburgh, Daniel Webber, Luke Bracey Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 90% The bloodiest battle of the Vietnam war for ANZAC troops seems an unlikely project […]
MOVIE REVIEW: LOCUSTS (Screening as part of Revelation Film Festival) Directed by Heath Davis Starring Ben Guerens, Nathaniel Dean, Jessica McNamee Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 73% Hot on the heels of the excellent Book Week, Heath Davis’s latest film concerns itself less with the titular scavenging insects, and more with their feral human equivalents – […]
MOVIE REVIEW: DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE (Screening as part of Revelation Film Festival) Written & directed by S Craig Zahler Starring Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Tory Kittles, Michael Jai White, Laurie Holden, Don Johnson Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 79% When you’ve been scuffing concrete for too many years – too many decades – as a New […]
MOVIE REVIEW: CARMINE STREET GUITARS (screening as part of Revelation Film Festival) Written by Len Blum Directed by Ron Mann Starring Rick Kelly, Cindy Hulej, Charlie Sexton, Jim Jarmusch, Lenny Kaye Reviewed by Shane Pinnegar 77% What Rick Kelly has built in his pokey hole-n-the-wall store in New York’s iconic Greenwich Village isn’t just a […]
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 […]
