Eliza Janssen discusses music recommendations, screenwriting advice, and social media doom-spiralling with the writer behind teen classics ‘Bring It On’ and ‘Stick It’.
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You Tried: Nicole Kidman in ‘The Paperboy’
Kidman’s transformative role brings power and authenticity to Lee Daniels’ pulp film.
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You Tried: Uma Thurman in ‘Batman and Robin’
Thurman is the sole performer in this goofy BatFilm to not only perfectly reflect Schumacher’s weightless camp, but to enrich it.
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Semi-natural: An Interview with Vivarium’s Lorcan Finnegan
Eliza Janssen talks with the Irish director about his creepily prescient domestic nightmare, nutty fan-theories, and living in the COVID-19 version of his suburban dystopia.
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Corona Kino: How 12 Directors are Probably Going to Respond to COVID-19
Please enjoy our very 2020 David Cronenberg fanfiction xo
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You Tried: Joaquin Phoenix in ‘Joker’
Is it just me, or are things getting crazier out there this awards season?
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You Tried: Richard E. Grant in ‘Spice World’
Grant’s highly-strung manager nearly turns a 90s cinematic wannabe into girl group gold.
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Let’s Fix ‘Cats’!
Eliza Janssen knows how to make 2019’s biggest critical failure less of a cat-astrophe.
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Review: Doctor Sleep
Mike Flanagan’s Stephen King adaptation is kinder and less focused than the Kubrick film it cribs from.
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Review: In Fabric
Peter Strickland’s killer dress movie wears its influences proudly on its sleeve, but its competing stories are sloppily stitched together.
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Review: Beanpole
Kantemir Balagov’s sophomore feature hangs heavy with the maternal emptiness of post-war Russia.
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Notes on Band Camp: An Interview with No Time For Quiet’s Hylton Shaw
Eliza Janssen talks to co-director Hylton Shaw about her rowdy teen rockumentary, the brutal truth of post-camp blues, and safe spaces ahead of the film’s world premiere at the Melbourne International Film Festival.
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Review: Parasite
Bong Joon-Ho’s slippery Palme d’Or winner is another sharp take on class conflict in modern day Korean society.
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Review: Her Smell
Elisabeth Moss is a riot (grrrl) in a dizzying and exhausting portrait of punk infamy.
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The Halphabet: 26 Vital Parts of Hal Ashby
Eliza Janssen alphabetises the ‘shaggy humanism’ of Hal Ashby, in light of a release of a documentary on the prolific American director.
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Review: Us
Jordan Peele gives Get Out an evil twin with this loopier, looser horror follow-up.
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Review: Revenge
This mischievous survival film attempts to reclaim the complicated rape-revenge narrative.
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Video Essay: ‘Last Year At Marienbad’ and The Doobie Brother’s ‘What A Fool Believes’ Are About The Same Thing
Eliza Janssen finds an unlikely connection between Alain Resnais’ 1961 arthouse drama and a 70s yacht-rock single.
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A Cat Jumps Out From The Darkness: In Defence of Jump Scares
Why hasn’t the jump scare graduated to the same respectability as the horror genre?
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Review: Arctic
Mads Mikkelsen can’t save this pulseless survival film that takes too long to thaw out.
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