Cars 3

(G) ★★Director: Brian Fee.Cast: (voices of) Owen Wilson, Cristela Alonzo, Chris Cooper, Armie Hammer, Bonnie Hunt, Larry the Cable Guy, Nathan Fillion, Kerry Washington, Lea DeLaria.On they drove, forever turning left.PLEASE Pixar - let this be the last Cars film.Prior to the release of Cars 3, the only genuine lemon in the Pixar garage was Cars 2, an ill-judged spy spoof that gave way too much screen time to the most annoying character...

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Tickled

(MA15+) ★★★★Director: David Farrier & Dylan Reeve."It's not what it looks like, mum."In the beginning, New Zealand journalist David Farrier hoped to do a story about "competitive endurance tickling". As a subject, it ticked a lot of boxes for Farrier - the inherent wackiness and absurdity was right up his lighthearted alley.But his inquiries to the media company behind the competition drew a bizarre response, and so began Farrier's...

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Pixar - From Best To Worst

To coincide with the release of Cars 3, I've thrown together this list of Pixar movies, arranging them from best to worst. Why? Because it says here in my copy of The Film Reviewer's Guide To Being A Know-It-All Jerk that I'm supposed to do regular film lists, thus creating debate, disgust, and angry anonymous comments from people with poor grammar and their caps lock key stuck in the 'on' position.In actual fact I love movie lists (and there's going...

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Rough Night

(MA15+) ★½Director:Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Jillian Bell, Kate McKinnon, Ilana Glazer, Zoë Kravitz, Paul W. Downs.Those feels when you run out of cocaine.After watching the trailer for this low-brow comedy, you'd be forgiven for thinking it was a remake of the 1998 black comedy Very Bad Things (if you're one of the people that stills remembers that forgotten Peter Berg film starring Christian Slater, Cameron Diaz, Jon Favreau, Jeremy Piven...

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The Mummy (2017)

(M) ★★½Director: Alex Kurtzman.Cast: Tom Cruise, Annabelle Wallis, Sofia Boutella, Jake Johnson, Russell Crowe.Tom Cruise liked to have his own bed with him while he travelled.It used to be that a studio made a film and if it was good and people loved it, then the studio made another one.Now studios don't make films - they make franchises. It doesn't matter if the first film was good or whether there was an appetite for more. So long as the...

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So I didn't get the triple j reviewing gig....

In case you didn't know (possibly because you don't care), Marc Fennell quit his job as triple j movie reviewer.Fennell is a great reviewer. I always avoid reading or hearing other reviews before I write my own, but once I've finished giving my opinion, I often sought out Fennell's critique on the same film. We often agreed - which is nice and validating - but he was far more erudite and hilarious at expressing similar sentiments.Upon hearing he...

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Wonder Woman

(M) ★★★★Director: Patty Jenkins.Cast: Gal Gadot, Chris Pine, Robin Wright, Danny Huston, David Thewlis, Connie Nielsen, Elena Anaya, Ewen Bremner, Saïd Taghmaoui, Eugene Brave Rock, Lucy Davis.The sword doubles as a backscratcher.Finally, DC has got it right.For the first time since it launched the DC Extended Universe, the comic book powerhouse has released a good film. Sorry - not just a good film, but a great film.It's absolutely ridiculous...

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