Hoping to make an impact when it receives its world premiere in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, Focus Features has dropped a series of clips for Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City, an off-kilter comedy with the requisite large ensemble that is centred on a fictional American desert town in 1955, where a junior stargazer convention […]
Wes Anderson’s Asteroid City trailer is very Wes Anderson
Focus Features has debuted a trailer and poster for writer-director Wes Anderson’s next film Asteroid City, a comedy centred on a fictional American desert town in 1955, where a junior stargazer convention is disrupted by… a visitor from outer space? That doesn’t seem to matter, as the focus instead is on the usual Wes Anderson […]
Movie Review – Wyrmwood: Apocalypse (2021)
Wyrmwood: Apocalypse, 2021. Directed by Kiah Roache-Turner. Starring Luke McKenzie, Jake Ryan, Jay Gallagher, Bianca Bradey, Shantae Barnes-Cowan, Tristan McKinnon, and Tasia Zalar. SYNOPSIS: Lone soldier Rhys searches the Australian wasteland for zombie specimens to deliver to the maniacal Surgeon General in the hope of finding a cure, but things don’t go smoothly. Making a […]
Movie Review – Savage (2019)
Savage, 2019. Directed by Sam Kelly. Starring Jake Ryan, John Tui, James Matamua, Haanz Fa’avae-Jackson, Seth Flynn, Poroaki Merritt-McDonald, Italiyah Wilson, Olly Presling and Chelsie Preston Crayford. SYNOPSIS: A journey into the dark heart of gang culture in New Zealand. It’s always an odd moment in a movie when you begin to notice how much […]
Movie Review – Savage (2019)
Savage, 2019. Directed by Sam Kelly. Starring Jake Ryan, John Tui, Chelsie Preston Crayford, James Matamua, Jack William Parker, Haanz Fa’avae-Jackson, and Seth Flynn. SYNOPSIS: As his gang starts to fracture into factions, the gang’s violent second-in-command questions his loyalty and friendship to his leader. Much can be told about a director from their debut […]
Chicago Critics Film Festival 2018 Review – Eighth Grade (2018)
Eighth Grade, 2018. Written and Directed by Bo Burnham. Starring Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Jake Ryan, Daniel Zolghadri, Fred Hechinger, Imani Lewis, Catherine Oliviere, Luke Prael, Nora Mullins, Missy Yager, Shacha Temirov, Greg Crowe, Thomas J O’Reilly, Frank Deal, Tiffany Grossfeld, Natalie Carter, Kevin R. Free, and Deborah Unger. SYNOPSIS: A teenager tries […]
Movie Review – Eighth Grade (2018)
Eighth Grade, 2018. Directed by Bo Burnham. Starring Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Catherine Oliviere, Jake Ryan and Daniel Zolghadri. SYNOPSIS: On the verge of high school, an internet-obsessed young girl grapples with her place in the social hierarchy while vlogging about confidence and self-belief. In the vast canon of American high school movies, […]
Glasgow Film Festival 2019 Review – Eighth Grade
Eighth Grade, 2018. Directed by Bo Burnham. Starring Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson and Jake Ryan. SYNOPSIS: With one week of eighth grade left, an introverted 13-year-old girl tries to make it to the end. 1986’s Stand By Me sees four young boys on a cross-country hike to find a dead body. The story […]
Festival favourite Eighth Grade gets a poster and trailer
A24 has debuted the first poster and trailer for writer-director Bo Burnham’s upcoming comedy drama Eighth Grade. The film made its world premiere in January at the Sundance Film Festival, receiving critical acclaim, and features a cast that includes Elsie Fisher, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Jake Ryan, and Fred Hechinger; take a look below… Thirteen-year-old Kayla […]
Movie Review – Blue World Order (2017)
Blue World Order, 2017. Directed by Che Baker and Dallas Bland. Starring Jake Ryan, Billy Zane and Bruce Spence. SYNOPSIS: The film is set in a post-apocalyptic world in which civilisation has crumbled. A massive electromagnetic pulse has killed all children on the planet with the exception of Molly (Billie Rutherford), the daughter of Jake […]
