The Heist; Based on An Almost True Story - MADE FOR THE EASTERSEALS DISABILITY FILM CHALLeNGE 2024 The Easterseals Disability Film Challenge was launched by actor, comedian and producer Nic Novicki in 2013 in response to the under-representation of talent with disabilities both in front of and behind the camera. The challenge provides both disabled and non-disabled creators the opportunity to collaborate on a project with prizes like state-of-the-art equipment and access to industry mentors giving these filmmakers a foot in the door of an already difficult industry to break into. Director ..read more

Another year, another 12 months of movie releases. The slate from distributors this year is thick with delayed projects pushed back after the SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild strikes of 2023. There is still no shortage however of brand-new films. Plus, strangely enough, a plethora of decades-old films getting their sequels. If you want to hear about all the upcoming releases our latest YouTube video (going live Jan 26th) goes through all films coming out in 2024 month by month. This post however is just going to focus on the releases directed by women because the annual Celluloid Ceiling report fro ..read more

Has Marvel Just Hit The Last Nail In Their Coffin? The latest feature-length film from Marvel Studios is the continuation of the story of Carol Danvers otherwise known as Captain Marvel. Reclaiming her identity from the tyrannical Kree in the first film, Captain Marvel takes revenge on the Supreme Intelligence with unintended consequences. When her duties send her to an anomalous wormhole linked to a Kree revolutionary, her powers become entangled with two other superheroes; Captain Monica Rambeau, Carol’s now fully grown superpowered niece, and Ms. Marvel a jersey-dwelling teenager with her o ..read more

If I Had One Word to Describe Saltburn it Would Be Visceral Saltburn, the second feature film from award-winning director, writer, actor, and producer Emerald Fennell does not disappoint. And in a counterintuitive move, I implore you to stop reading this review to go watch it in cinemas first to have the freshest experience possible. I knew barely anything about this movie going in and was incredibly glad for that fact. Despite the incredible marketing, Saltburn is a film best experienced completely out of your depth. Whilst I shall attempt to keep my review here as spoiler-free as possib ..read more

No Writers Means No Content So, if you have even a passing interest in film and filmmaking then you are probably aware that there is a strike happening at the moment. But what was the catalyst that set it off and what does it mean for content moving forward? Watch Our Latest YouTube Video On This Topic Below    In March of this year, the Writers Guild of America released an article [1] that explained how writers have been negatively impacted by the advent of streaming services. The article detailed the severe decline in pay since 2013-14 (around 23% once adjusted for inflation) and i ..read more

Patriarchy, Feminism, and Barbie I had zero expectations walking into the cinemas to see Greta Gerwig’s Barbie. Even after a monster of a marketing campaign, some of which I was actually a part of by both using meme generators on social media and working as a camera operator for a pink carpet event that live-streamed on TikTok. All around me, the question on everybody’s lips was, “Are you going to see the Barbie movie?” The perception of what this film would be fell into two categories; blindly optimistic and apathetically judgmental. I can confidently say I was part of the former group and st ..read more

the good, the bad and everything in between - My time at the 70th Sydney Film Festival.   Watch our Video Blog COVERING THE FILMS FROM 2023   I’ve been covering the Sydney Film Festival for around 5 years now and since 2018 I’ve experienced various iterations of the festival. In 2019 I worked with the European Film Promotion who bring the annual Europe! Voices of Women in Film program to the festival every year. I got to pre-screen some of the films and interview the directors which was an awesome experience. On the flip side, I reviewed the films from the comfort of my own couch in ..read more

As A Visual Medium Shouldn't Film Focus More On Its Aesthetics? I have been a big fan of Melanie Martinez since her first album was released in 2015. Her cutesy aesthetic and sound contrasting dramatically with the dark subject matter of her music. In 2019 she released a new album K-12 along with a full 90min film of the same name, which she also wrote and directed. It has taken me a while but I finally watched it and let’s just say there is quite a lot to unpack here. This may seem a bit of a left turn for this blog to review what is essentially a super long music video but as the film deals ..read more

taking a critical lens to this famous film criticism Watch the Video Version of this blog here I think when anybody starts to study feminism and film one of the first names to come up on their radar is Alison Bechdel. Derived from her 1985 comic strip titled The Rule; where two women discussing films comment on the lack of good representation of female characters, The Bechdel Test was originally meant as a bit of a joke and more of a comment on the alienation of queer women in cinema [1]. Since its conception, the test has been used to categorise a film’s feminist qualities. With many films at ..read more

What Even Is A Film Script Anyway? It’s been a whole year between episodes but finally the second rendition of the How To Make A Movie series is live and ready for viewing. In Episode 2 I talk through the formatting of film scripts and take viewers through a handful of software options to use when writing your script. All of the knowledge in the How To Make A Movie series is based on my real-life experience working in this industry and studying film at University. The series aims to detail the entire process from idea to finished film without sugar-coating any of it. If you are keen to learn a ..read more