• Review – Earth To Echo

    A plot that grafts together E.T., The Goonies, and Super 8 is destined to be overly cutesy and nostalgia-inducing, but at least it’ll be fun. A group of friends living together in a upper-working-class/lower-middle-class suburban neighbourhood in Nevada face having to move elsewhere, and lose the friendships that have...
  • Review – Guardians of the Galaxy

    The tenth instalment in their Cinematic Universe, Guardians of the Galaxy is a momentous accomplishment for Marvel Studios’ perpetually expanding franchise. This is more so due to the film’s ambition to adapt a cosmic comic that is distant and unique from previous superhero films, rather than the film’s actual efficacy....
  • Short Focus – Rellik

    One of the more intriguing shorts exhibited at Mayhem last year was Rellik, only recently available to watch online but more than worth the five minutes of your time. Taking cues from the opening minutes of Chris Nolan’s Memento, Rellik  expands that reversed-chronology conceit into darker and more contemplative territory, hinting at notions of...
  • Review – A Touch Of Sin

    The anthology film, a format favoured especially by the horror genre, seems bound by two rules: to consist of slight or superficial stories, and to be undone by one weak story. Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin breaks the first rule and stumbles with the second. It doesn’t so...