FACE/OFF (full article at The Guardian Australia)

It’s beginning to feel a lot like Christmas: legendary Hong Kong director John Woo has a new film coming out in December – Silent Night – and any movie from the GOAT of action flicks is a real gift. So why not revisit the movie that is arguably the most popular, and inarguably the most bonkers, of his career?

Face/Off sees John Travolta as FBI agent Sean Archer, who is tracking the notorious terrorist Castor Troy, played by Nicolas Cage. But when Troy tries to kill him and kills Archer’s son instead, Archer becomes consumed by revenge. Six years later, he catches up to Castor and in the ensuing chaos puts him in a coma. But Castor has planted a huge bomb in downtown LA and the only possible way for Archer to discover the location … is, of course, face transplant surgery.

Read the full article at The Guardian Australia:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/nov/29/faceoff-1997-movie-john-woo-nicolas-cage-john-travolta-silent-night-2023

IMDB: Face/Off

PRIMAL (full article at The Guardian Australia)

Primal is a dark, sinewy animated series that pairs a knuckle-dragging Neanderthal named Spear with an orthodontically challenged T rex called Fang. Violent and bloody, Primal is probably not for kids – but there is far more depth and intelligence to the deceptively simple concept of a caveman and a dinosaur teaming up to fight the world.

Read the full article at The Guardian Australia:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/sep/26/neanderthal-thrills-and-dinosaur-kills-a-caveman-and-a-t-rex-take-on-the-world-in-primal

IMDB: Primal

FIREBITE (full review at Screen Realm)

Firebite is an Australian vampire series created by Warwick Thornton and Brendan Fletcher  which is streaming in Australia on AMC (via Amazon) from 16 December. It’s a unique spin on the vampire myth which takes the creatures out of their traditionally cold, dark environs and places them in the hot, bright outback sunshine.

Vampires were transported to Australia in the hold of colonial ships, brought over by the British to deal with the Indigenous population. But in the two centuries since, they have been kept at bay by a solitary band of fierce Aboriginal vampire hunters known as Blood Hunters. Tyson (Rob Collins) fights the local vampire population in the small mining town of Opal City. He trained to be a Blood Hunter but was forced to stop before his training was complete. With the help of his adoptive daughter Shanika (Shantae Barnes-Cowan) they keep the numbers under control.

Read the full review at Screen Realm:

https://www.screenrealm.com/firebite-series-review-amazon-prime-australia/

IMDB: Firebite