Articles in Australian Movie Reviews
Garage Days (2002) Movie Review
The biggest problem I can find with Alex Proyas’ 2002 effort, “Garage Days”, is that it’s completely superfluous and, perhaps worst of all (at least according to all aspiring filmmakers out there who would sell a kidney just to have a decent budget to make their movie) wasteful. When you’re doing a movie about a [...]
July 4th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreThe Nugget (2002) Movie Review
The Australian comedy “The Nugget” will probably be most notable for starring Eric Bana, who was in last year’s “Blackhawk Down” and is the star of the upcoming “The Hulk”. Bana stars as Lotto, one of three tight knit friends who, while out prospecting in the hills, discover a large gold nugget in the ground. [...]
June 20th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreSubterano (2003) Movie Review
A lot of things about Esben Storm’s “Subterano” puzzles me. The movie is about killer toys that hunt unsuspecting civilians trapped inside an overnight parking garage. But that’s not the most puzzling thing about “Subterano”, even though I’ll grant you that the premise is a bit silly. The real question is this: Why in the [...]
May 10th, 2003 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreWhen Strangers Appear (2001) Movie Review
The Scott Reynolds film, “When Strangers Appear,” is a good example of an independent feature with a limited budget that relies on a tight and taut screenplay and a good cast to carry the day. Unfortunately, after an hour and 20 minutes of twists and turns, tremendous acting by all involved, and enough surprises for [...]
August 25th, 2002 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreThe Dish (2000) Movie Review
It’s 1969 and Neil Armstrong and the crew of Apollo 11 are about to land on the moon, and everyone in America is waiting with bated breath. What we didn’t know back then, and most of us still don’t know now, is that the fine folks in Parkes, a small rural town in Australia, were [...]
March 15th, 2002 | Nix | 0 Comments | Read MoreMoulin Rouge (2001) Movie Review
While watching Moulin Rouge, I suddenly developed a headache and a general dislike for musicals. (Not that I ever cared for them in the first place, natch.) There is a theory floating around, one that I have called the Michael Bay Theory of Film Editing, that involves movies edited in such a rapid-fire process that [...]
January 4th, 2002 | Nix | 1 Comment | Read More














