Director Yeon Sang-ho Starring Dong-Won Gang, Jung-hyun Lee, Re Lee Rated MA Score 4/6 Peninsula takes place four years after the zombie outbreak in Train to Busan. The Korean peninsula is devastated and Jung Seok, a former soldier who has managed to escape overseas, is given a mission to go back and unexpectedly meets survivors.…
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Undercover Grandpa
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Director Erik Canuel Starring Dylan Everett, James Caan, Greta Onieogou Rated M Score 3/6 When the girl he likes goes missing, Jake enlists the help of his grandpa and Grandpa’s former special ops buddies. I suppose this is something that I normally wouldn’t watch, honestly it was one of those spur-of the moment Netflix decisions.…
Mighty Oak
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Director Sean McNamara Starring Tommy Ragen, Janel Parrish, Carlos PenaVega, Alexa PenaVega Rated M Score 4/6 Music manager Gina Jackson whose life is shattered when her brother and lead vocalist, Vaughn, is killed in a tragic accident. Ten years later, when a young guitar prodigy Oak Scoggins enters her orbit, she becomes convinced that this…
More than a Mile – Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
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Director Alexander Michael Rated M Score 6/6 ‘More than a Mile’ is a documentary following the lives of a runner and his friend on their six-month journey towards the Beer Mile World Classic. I will admit that while watching More than a Mile I had the feeling I probably should have had a beer in…
Can Art Stop a Bullet? – Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2020
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Director Mark Street Rated M Score 6/6 Can Art Stop a Bullet, at its simplest, is a documentary about artist William Kelly, but it’s so much more than that. Centred around the creation of an artwork for Kelly’s State Library of Victoria Fellowship the film explores the relationship between art and activism, and the power…
The Legend of the Five
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Director Joanne Samuel Starring Lauren Esposito, Gabi Sproule, Leigh Joel Scott, Deborah An and Nicholas Andrianakos Rated PG Score 5/6 In Cinemas from June 25 with subsequent dates as Cinemas reopen When a group of misfit teenagers encounter an ancient relic during a school trip, they find themselves caught up in a magical world, with…
Batman and Me – Melbourne Documentary Film Festival
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Director Michael Wayne Rated G Score 6/6 Darren Maxwell became addicted to collecting Batman merchandise in late 1980s Australia as a way to be a part of nascent geek culture. Decades later, Darren’s stuck with a room full of collectables – a membership card to a fandom he no longer recognises – yet powerful forces…
Billy Jack
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Director Tom Laughlin (as T.C. Frank) Starring Tom Laughlin, Delores Taylor & Clark Howat Rated M Score 4.5/6 The half-breed Billy Jack lives in an Indian reservation protecting the Indians, the stallions and the students of the Freedom School, a peaceful art school run by Jean Roberts and where the students can choose their own…
The World’s Best Film
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Director Joshua Belinfante Rated G Score 6/6 ‘The World’s Best Film’ is an anthology documentary following 12 people that are striving to be the world’s best at strange and amazing things. From the world’s best bummer of cigarettes to the world’s best town planner to the best griller of bananas. Filmed over a period of…
Strangers to the World – Melbourne Documentary Film Festival 2020
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Director Grant Fraser Rated M Score 6/6 Strangers to the World examines individual moral courage in the face of almost overwhelming pressure from the world to conform and in doing so, act against that conscience. A dramatised documentary starring Rachel Griffiths and Oscar Redding that examines the lives of two people, Etty Hillesum and Franz…