A really, really welcome return to form for the MCU. The Marvels is a super fun jaunt. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. Schooner of Carlton Draught - Not great aye.…

Sick of Myself is a unique comedy focusing on a narcissistic couple, with a body horror filter. Super unique stuff. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. Schooner of Car…

Ok I'm a little late. But here's my thoughts on the cultural phenomenon of the year. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. Schooner of Carlton Draught - Not great aye. B…

I review the new Australian teen coming of age film Sweet As. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. Schooner of Carlton Draught - Not great aye. But perhaps an interesti…

For the third and last time we visit the Guardians corner of the MCU. Can they save us from the MCU's 4th phase funk? Listen to find out. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your…

A new Jackie Chan film in cinemas is a novel treat. I take a look at Ride On. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. Schooner of Carlton Draught - Not great aye. But perh…

Rusty as an Italian exorcist priest! Can't miss cinema (ok you can probably miss it). Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. Schooner of Carlton Draught - Not great aye. …

I chat about recent Australian coming of age flick Of An Age. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. Schooner of Carlton Draught - Not great aye. But perhaps an interesti…

In this episode I take a look at the latest entries in two of my favourite film franchises - CREED III and SCREAM VI. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. Schooner of C…

In this episode I take a look at the buzzworthy horror film Skinamarink, which is currently streaming on Shudder. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. Schooner of Carlt…

Despite the terrible buzz, I still wanted to see the latest Aronofsky film. Sadly that buzz is very well deserved. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. Schooner of Carl…

Ruben Ostlund's latest slice of comic absurdity. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. Schooner of Carlton Draught - Not great aye. But perhaps an interesting idea or tw…

A food snob goes to their dream restaurant experience. Chaos ensues. Ralph Fiennes is involved. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. Schooner of Carlton Draught - Not g…

A fantastically deranged film! Tom Hanks unleashed! The power of music! Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. Schooner of Carlton Draught - Not great aye. But perhaps an…

My most anticipated film of the year! The old guard meets the new with shitloads of dinos (and giant locusts). Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. Schooner of Carlton …

Indian word of mouth sensation RRR has landed on Netflix so I decided to take a look. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. Schooner of Carlton Draught - Not great aye. …

Linklater has a new piece of rotoscoped nostalgia on Netflix! Don't get too excited though, cause this shit is labourious. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. Schooner…

Robert Eggers is my favourite new filmmaker of the past decade. So I made a rare cinema trip to check out his latest. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. Schooner of C…

Hive is a 2021 film focusing in on the aftermath of the war in Kosovo, particularly on the women left behind. It's a unique take on potentially familiar territory, that won basically everything at Sundance. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, h…

So there's a new Texas Chainsaw film on Netflix and it's actually pretty sweet (if you ask me anyway). Thoughts on The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2022. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and…

As I continue to not go to the cinema, I continue to ponder new stuff to cover on the podcast. Here I talk about a couple of January releases from Aussie label Umbrella Entertainment - The Big Boss and Crash. Both are tops! Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny…

There has been much buzz about Drive My Car, which is finally reaching Aussie cinemas. Here's some thoughts on this amazing film. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. S…

There has never been a cinematic experience like the Venom films. Thoughts on the second in a series I hope never ends. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. Schooner of…

So the Daniel Craig era comes to an end. Thoughts on No Time to Die, and how it fits into this most recent take on cinema's most iconic character. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and w…

There wasn't much really happening on the first Disney + day. But it did mark the first appearance on the standard service for Jungle Cruise and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings. I take a look at both of them here. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny…

Feel the title is pretty self-explanatory on this one. Films covered: DEMONIC, OLD, JAKOB'S WIFE, THE UNHOLY, V/H/S 94, TILL DEATH and THERE'S SOMEONE INSIDE YOUR HOUSE. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Res…

After an average start, for my money the Purge series has grown into one of the most interesting and flat out best horror franchises going. So I was super keen to see if the latest entry measured up. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly r…

A new Aussie doco looking at the 19-20 bushfires, and more specifically the people who fought them. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. Schooner of Carlton Draught - N…

Locked down and school holidays feels like an apt time to suss out some recent animated films, which are all streaming now. I take a look at: LUCA, RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON, WISH DRAGON, ARLO THE ALLIGATOR BOY and THE MITCHELLS VS. THE MACHINES. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or …

Screening as part of this year's (online) Sydney Underground Film Fest, AN IDEAL HOST is an Aussie low budget genre mashup. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. Schoone…

I'm back! Talking about the just-ok MCU entry BLACK WIDOW. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. Schooner of Carlton Draught - Not great aye. But perhaps an interesting …

It's cars. It's Vin. It's above all family. It's The Fast and the Furious 9. Possibly also just known as F9. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. Schooner of Carlton Dr…

The third entry into the Conjuring series takes a pretty different approach to the first two - which seems to have really divided folks. Here's my thoughts. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good …

In which I review two recent action flicks to hit the cinema. I didn't have enough to say about either of them, but when their powers combine you get this regular length episode. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stub…

The comedy that came out of nowhere to take my twitter feed by storm is now on Aussie VOD. I checked it out. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. Schooner of Carlton Dr…

Does what it says on the tin, i.e. is rad. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. Schooner of Carlton Draught - Not great aye. But perhaps an interesting idea or two. Sch…

A short podcast about a long movie. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. Schooner of Carlton Draught - Not great aye. But perhaps an interesting idea or two. Schooner o…

Based on a successful first entry in a crime novel series, The Dry has been a bit of a box office powerhouse - continuing its run even now, following a 1 January release. Here I ponder how the film works as an adaptation, the performances and how it elevates the material to feel cinematic. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent…

In which I take a look at the boxing day release END OF THE CENTURY. Which is ultimately an interesting film to ponder, even if elements of it were frustrating. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a g…

In which I review Blumhouse's take on that most tired of film devices - the body swap comedy. But with a serial killer & a teenage girl. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your …

I check out Brandon Cronenberg's long awaited follow-up to Antiviral which promised more sci-fi/body horror mashup goodness. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. Schoon…

A look at Andrew Traucki's latest Aussie creature feature. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and worth your time. Schooner of Carlton Draught - Not great aye. But perhaps an interesting …

Jill Gevargizian's The Stylist premiered at Fantastic Fest recently. As a Kickstarter backer I was able to catch an online premiere soon after. Here's some thoughts on this gloriously gross serial killer tale. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good…

With Shudder finally launching in Australia, I thought I'd take a look at three films on the service - HOST, THE POOL and RANDOM ACTS OF VIOLENCE. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubby of Reschs - a good film and w…

My second post-easing of quarantine trip to the cinema was a super exciting one. Returning to zombie plagued Korea four years after the events of TRAIN TO BUSAN in the sequel PENINSULA. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended fil…

Aussie horror indie RELIC has been making a series of splashes lately - on the festival circuit before that ground to a halt, throughout the drive-in scene in the States and now streaming here in Australia. It's gotten a bunch of buzz from some of my favourite horror writers, so I was excited to check it out. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne B…

Thoughts on a cavalcade of horror films new(ish) to VOD and streaming. I dig into a bunch of smaller releases - Sweetheart, The Head Hunter, Snatchers, Bhoot Part 1 and Deadcon. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommended film. Stubb…

Pixar's ONWARD is one of the bigger name films to have gone straight to streaming during the Coronavirus pandemic. Here's some thoughts, along with a few recommendations of things that have been getting me by. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good…

I dip into the world of straight from cinema coronavirus VOD with THE HUNT. It's rather good, and not what I was expecting. Also, I chat about some other stuff getting me through quarantine. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly recommende…

Thoughts on the Safdies latest, starring Adam Sandler. Available on Netflix. Plus I recommend some other things that have been helping me get through the current bleak times and might help you too. Ratings System: Longneck of Melbourne Bitter - an excellent film. Sublimely entertaining, meaningful or both. Pint of Kilkenny - a very good, highly rec…