Author Joni Blyth

https://vimeo.com/183577091 Not enough sci-fi movies have adorable robots these days. Sure, Baymax and BB-8 are fab enough that we can forgive Ridley Scott for not giving Matt Damon a robo-buddy in The...

Incarnation’s premise, while intriguing, is far from original. Time loops are a classic sci-fi staple, and have been cropping up in films across the board, again and again - and again. Luckily, Incarnation...

In claustrophobic crime thriller Three, director Johnnie To is determined to keep you guessing; scenes often appear bizarre until their true meaning is revealed, and the script keeps its cards close to its...

Down Under places its feet firmly in the realm of truth from the outset, kicking off with sobering footage of the Cronulla race riots in 2006 - before pivoting into an absurd and farcical tale of street...

A Plastic Ocean grabs your attention immediately, with what might be one of the greatest horror reveals in cinema. Opening on rare footage of blue whales in their natural habitat, the camera pans right, into a...

A curious combination of thematically dense and tonally sparse, some may grasp a deeper meaning from Mimosas. However this otherworldly odyssey across North Africa struggles to rise beyond its style, as the...

Raw, detailed and unashamedly single-minded, Chasing Asylum is a tearjerking look behind the scenes at Australian immigration. With 60 million people forcibly displaced by events across the globe, this...

It might have been easy for A Date for Mad Mary to take the easy route: mine the stresses of planning a wedding for some easy laughs, or even mimic Orange is the New Black for some prison-driven black comedy....

“The McDonald’s french fry is unbelievable. When you bite into it, you think: It’s so tasty, it can’t be real. As soon as it gets cold, it turns to lard and flubble. I mean, have you ever tried to eat...

It’s tough to follow a masterpiece, but it can be tougher to follow a failure. While the new Ultimate Edition has made some headway into redeeming Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, all eyes are on Suicide...

Picture the scene: it’s March of this year. Warner Bros. executives are sitting in a conference room. The atmosphere is chilly, and it’s not the air-con. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, a film decades...

Chances are, you should have come across Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele by now. Even if you’ve never had a friend burst in to show you one of the fantastic sketches from their eponymous show, you may...

Central Intelligence isn’t concerned with changing the status quo. There’s no grand message, no attempt to subvert the genre, or even poke fun at it Jump Street style. With its bland title and boilerplate...

Gods of Egypt contains all the trappings of the genre you’d expect. Mighty monsters, treacherous tombs, giant animal-robots fighting on spaceships, the standard stuff. In fact, by the time these ‘gods’...

  Close your eyes. Picture Egypt. What can you see? The golden sands of the desert, the glittering azure waters of the Nile, the sun reflecting off the wings of a 10ft tall falcon robot as it...