Three Summers

People from different walks of life have their world view challenged when attending an Australian folk music festival over the course of 3 consecutive years in Ben Elton’s Three Summers. Normally I don’t bring in context when reviewing a film but in some cases it’s unavoidable and really important in terms of understanding why the film…

Geostorm

A network of satellites designed to control the Earth’s weather start to malfunction and threaten the world with an escalating series of devastating storms in Dean Devlin’s Geostorm. We’ve all seen disaster movies in various forms over the years and to my mind they tend to be enjoyable because of a certain schlock factor that…

Jet Trash Press Junket

I had the opportunity to interview several people involved with the film Jet Trash. In attendance were actors Osy Ikhile and Robert Sheehan as well as director Charlie Belleville and producer Andy Brunskill. Each of them were kind enough to give me their time and talk openly about the film. There are plenty of good…

EIFF 2015 – The Messenger

David Blair’s The Messenger forces Jack (Robert Sheehan) to channel his inner Haley Joel Osmont as he is haunted by the ghosts of the recent deceased who call upon him to carry out unfinished business on their behalf. My comparisons to The Sixth Sense will end there as this is actually a very different film…