It is June. Nothing has moved forward this year but the slow creep of a mind in constant struggle with itself; desire and fear. Desire for the dreams that keep me coping with a disintegrating world and body. Fear of losing what stability and sanity I have. Fear at the work it would take, the discomfort, the damage it might cause. But do I love what I have?

Love is so difficult to uncover for me. Love - the world-changing,…

I'll say what I can about Nitram, but I think much of the intellectualising will come from people far better equipped than me. I was deeply upset by this film, in a way that I rarely am. While watching it, I felt it all through my body; tension and tightness and a real desire to pull away. Afterwards, I felt it colour my previous experience - growing up in Tasmania, my complicity in the mistreatment of these kind of individuals,…

Gets big points for allowing our protagonist to be properly deplorable, and how those affected by his behaviour suffer it's consequences. And it's not too didactic with that - the movie clearly has a position, but it allows him to be at turns compassionate and appealing rather than simply evil. That makes for far more powerful analogies and may allow the film's core target audience some healthy introspection.

That said, the filmmaking was a bit too clean and obvious to…

A riveting, textured thriller that plays like a feature length adaptation of the basement scene from Zodiac. There's nothing particularly new about the observations on the banality of evil (particularly within the lineage of Aussie crime thrillers), but there's an undertone of creeping systemic toxicity here that charges the atmosphere of the procedural scenes to frightening levels. It's some feat that those moments match the gut-churning two hander that most of the film centres on - Harris and Edgerton are…

There's a lot to be said about this movie, but perhaps none more important than it was good and I liked it. Most significantly, it was a good film that I liked, though that is not to discount the fact that i liked it and it was good. Alarmingly, the film was good, but in bracingly original fashion, I liked it. Yes, the film was good and I liked it, but very little, if anything, could discount the fact that…