Film Reviews

Poor Things: A feminist male sex fantasy

In the aftermath of this award season, I can’t help but feel sick to my stomach, and it's not just because of the catastrophic Barbie snubs. No, what makes me abhor this past Oscars ceremony is the Barbie snubs alongside the highly awarded fetishized porno masquerading as female empowerment that was the film, Poor Things.

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April 18, 2024

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The Secret Horror of Cloverfield

On the third of July 2007, Transformers released in theatres. Attached to every screening like a parasite was an unlabelled trailer, comprised entirely of handheld footage. In it, people mill about at a going away party for a man named Rob.

Brock Scholte
March 18, 2024

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REVIEW: The Lure (2015)

With a dream-like blend of fantasy, horror, musical, romance and drama, this film is like something straight out of the David Lynch playbook and is just as strange as it sounds.

Ivana Daskalovic
February 27, 2024

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‘Saltburn’ Is The New Modern Gothic Tale

‘The bathtub scene’, ‘the grave scene’, ‘the vampire scene’. If you have seen any of these words trending on X recently and felt confused, it must mean you haven’t yet seen the aesthetic atrocity — and I mean that in the best way possible — that is Saltburn, the new film that is as intriguing as it is disturbing.

Jacinta Rossetto
December 18, 2023

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Shorties: An insider look at QUT’s student-run film festival

QUT is home to over a hundred clubs and societies that create fun events for entertainment and networking purposes all year round. And the QUT Film Club is one of them.