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Home blog personalJ. FletcherJuly 29, 2017February 24, 2022
  • 08 June 202208 June 2022|by J. Fletcher
    18 ½ : Review
    Remember the good old days when conspiracy theories were the prerogative of survivalist cults and basement...
  • 13 May 202213 May 2022|by J. Fletcher
    The Roald From Bonneville
    The legacy of Welsh born author Roald Dahl is something of a complicated tale, depending on...
  • 27 April 202227 June 2022|by J. Fletcher
    One Punch Man: Darcy Yuille
    Australian filmmaker Darcy Yuille has had quite the festival run this year with his debut feature...
  • 20 April 202213 May 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Tristian Pemberton vs The Gravel Road
    WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this content may contain references, images...
  • 13 April 202213 April 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Jolyon Hoff: Holding The Waves
    Making its world premiere at the 2022 Screenwave International Film Festival (SWIFF), held at the NSW...
  • 31 March 202231 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Macoto Tezuka: Stardust & Cinema
    Although destiny can be a rather philosophical musing, certain individuals do seem more disposed to its...
  • 22 March 202222 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Jim Piddock: (In)Decent Exposure
    Jim Piddock is the first to acknowledge that while some may not be familiar his name,...
  • 09 March 202212 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Ben Milliken: Gun Runner
    Since marking his acting debut with the Australian soap McLeod’s Daughters, Ben Milliken’s star has continued...
  • 07 March 202207 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Knox Gibson, Ashley Eakin: Better Angels
    One of the great embarrassments of 2022 is that sad fact that we, as a society...
  • 04 March 202204 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Tiriki Onus: Blazing The Path Forward
    WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this content may contain references, images...
  • 28 February 202228 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Matt Reeves: Shadow of the Bat
    Arguably his most intimate character study since 2010’s Let Me In, an adaption of John Ajvide...
  • 28 February 202228 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    George-Alex Nagle: Mate
    One of the more prestigious short film festivals in Europe would have to be the Clermont-Ferrand...
  • 26 February 202201 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Sweet River Keeps on Running
    Having started his film career as a sound recordist for Burke’s Back Yard, Ashely McLeod went...
  • 24 February 202224 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Jonathan Alley: Keeping Tracks
    As part of the 2022 Australian International Documentary Convention (AIDC), organisers recently announced a stellar line-up...
  • 21 February 202221 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    It’s A Summer Movie!: Review
    In what feels like a throwback to Japan’s golden comedy era of the early 2000’s, where...
  • 21 February 202221 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Rob Livings: Creating Content under COVID.
    The COVID-19 pandemic has been a brutal learning curve for film production, with any number of...
  • 13 February 202225 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    2022 French Film Festival: Announced
    With 2022 seeing a strong comeback for Australia’s International Film Festival circuit, the latest cinematic indulgence...
  • 08 February 202224 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Valerio Zanoli: Film with Heart
    You’ll often hear filmmakers claim they’re looking to make to ‘make a difference’ with their art;...
  • 03 February 202223 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Damian Nixey: Crushing Malibu
    Back in January 2020 Australian actor James Pratt (Adopted) was actively spruiking his attachment as director...
  • 25 January 202215 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Ari Gold: Adventures of Power Redux
    It’s hard to specify that elusive quality which elevates a movie into the category of Cult....
  • 20 January 202222 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    The Rings of Power: Updates
    There’s been a wealth of high-fantasy gracing our screenings lately with the second season of The Witcher and...
  • 15 January 202223 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Alex Proyas: The Heretic Within
    Having enjoyed a prime position as judge in last year’s Flickerfest Short Film Festival, Australian filmmaker...
  • 13 January 202222 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    GOLD: Review
    Australian cinema has a rich legacy of outback survival stories, especially when it comes to stranding...
  • 31 December 202123 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Embrace Again: Review
    After the success of her 2019 thriller The Whistleblower, writer/ director Xiaolu Xue returns with the poignant...
  • 16 December 202123 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Pete West & Puff ‘n’ Stuff
    As Netflix continues to submerse itself in the Australian entertainment landscape, the streamer has just dropped...
  • 15 December 202123 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Falling with Viggo Mortensen
    Since first making his feature debut in Peter Wier’s seminal 1985 thriller Witness, Viggo Mortensen has earned...
  • 23 November 202114 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Peter Skinner: Finding His Lost Boy
    The short film Lost Boy has been making waves throughout the Australian and International festival circuit recently, not...
  • 19 November 202122 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Down on the Bayou with Angela Sarafyan
    Although most casual viewers will recognise Angela Sarafyan from her fiercely fatalist turn as Westworld’s Clementine Pennyfeather,...
  • 18 November 202123 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Yang Feng: Winter Soldiers
    The fabled story of the Lunan Railway Brigade, officially known as the 115th Division of the Eight...
  • 17 November 202128 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Wheel of Time: Season One: Review
    While there is a definite hype taking hold around Amazon Prime’s long gestating Lord of the Rings prequel...
  • 09 November 202123 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Adam & Edward & Isabella
    COVID-19 has been a difficult period for many creatives, especially as Australian filmmakers and content creators...
  • 02 November 202125 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Satoshi Kon: I’illisionniste: Review
    Those familiar with the feature length anime genre know that the entire Western permeation of the...
  • 02 November 202126 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Unseen Skies: Review
    There is a rather profound metaphor in the first half of Unseen Skies that solidifies many of the...
  • 01 November 202126 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    The Fable: The Killer Who Doesn’t Kill: Review
    After the overwhelming success and popularity of the first Fable (2019) film, it came as no...
  • 29 October 202123 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    ReCancelling Luke Eve
    Luke Eve is a filmmaker who knows how to pivot. In a world that has just...
  • 28 October 202126 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Hold Me Back: Review
    Based on the 2020 novel from Risa Wataya, Hold Me Back takes an interesting approach to...
  • 23 October 202113 May 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Frank Lotito: Finding Smith
    With so much content streaming in the current marketplace, it can be a frustrating exercise for...
  • 21 October 202124 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Scott Derrickson: Dialling in Death
    2021 has been a difficult year for the horror genre with a number of hit and...
  • 17 October 202127 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Japanese Film Festival: 2021
    With the Japanese Film Festival having just launched its full 2021 program, the popular film festival...
  • 10 October 202105 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Shahn Devendran Talks Unheard
    WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander readers are warned that this content may contain references, images...
  • 08 October 202102 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    The Children in the Pictures
    The following article contains subject matters including sexual assault, child sexual exploitation and paedophile. If any...
  • 14 September 202126 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Josee: Review
    Director Jong-kwan Kim has to be one of South Korea’s hardest working directors, having completed the...
  • 05 September 202115 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Karena Slaninka: MCX Re-Imagined
    Billed as an annual industry event for emerging and developing content creators, MCX Screenmakers is set...
  • 02 September 202114 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Double Patty: Review
    Romantic dramedies have become a staple of South Korean film culture thanks to box-office success stories...
  • 02 September 202105 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Shades of the Heart: Review
    One the highlights of the 2021 Korean Film Festival was the inclusion of Jong-kwan Kim’s sublime...
  • 01 September 202105 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    I Don’t Fire Myself: Review
    It’s safe to say that the equality movement has been a little slow on the up...
  • 01 September 202124 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Jeananne Goossen: Slash & Dash
    As the resurgence of the anthology series continues to rise in popularity, one of the more...
  • 23 August 202127 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Raging Fire: Review
    What do you get when you take a righteous seasoned cop with a pregnant wife; a...
  • 08 August 202124 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Red Shoes: Covid Shuffle
    Set in the world of contemporary ballet and slated for a 2022 release, the new Australian...
  • 05 August 202114 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    S.K. Dale: Till Death
    Having honed his genre chops directing the acclaimed short films Tommy (2020) and The Coatmaker (2018), Australian filmmaker Scott Dale,...
  • 01 August 202127 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Lower Decks: Season Two: Review
    After a slightly inconsistent first season, Star Trek’s latest animated series, the aptly named Lower Decks,...
  • 10 July 202111 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Elise McCann: Dream Weaver
    After the hard-earned success the six-part web series The Housemate, which found itself picked up by...
  • 29 June 202102 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Garth de Bruno Austin: Rhino Warrior
    Screening as part of this years Revelation Film Festival in Perth, the remarkable investigative documentary feature...
  • 15 June 202122 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Caroline Catz: Decoding Delia Derbyshire
    The name Delia Derbyshire may sound like a superhero sidekick from the pages of 80’s limited...
  • 09 June 202123 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Josee, The Tiger & The Fish: Review
    Having received a live action adaption back in 2003, author Seiko Tanabe’s classic short story Josee, the...
  • 01 June 202115 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Nicholas Hamilton: Endless It Boy
    After his macabre turn as the psychotic bully Henry Bowers in Andy Muschietti’s stunning 2017 adaptation...
  • 30 May 202122 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Grant Petty: Blackmagic Man
    While films like the Oscar nominated Minari and the cerebral sci-fi thriller Ad Astra may not...
  • 21 May 202128 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Hanna Griffiths: Patron Saint of The Sinners
    Hanna Griffiths has worn many hats as she’s navigated her way through Australia’s entertainment industry and...
  • 20 May 202115 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Reilly Archer-Whelan & The Last Extinction
    Of all the social movements to have gained international traction over the past few years, the...
  • 13 September 201807 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Penguin Highway: Review
    Whenever a new anime feature film causes a stir at the Japanese box-office or creates ripples...
  • 24 November 201626 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Your Name: Review
    Taking the star-crossed lover theme to extraordinary new heights, Makoto Shinkai’s (Children Who Chase Lost Voices)...
  • 21 March 201622 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Scott Bakula: Leaping Back
    During the late 1970s a quiet revolution within American television was underway as a select group...
  • 24 August 201524 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Attack on Titan: Part One: Review
    While Japan’s anime industry is revered domestically as something of a national treasure, it’s still often...
  • 12 November 201410 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Pale Moon: Review
    Based on the bestselling novel The Eighth Day, from acclaimed author Mitsuyo Kakuta, and selected to represent...
  • 09 June 201409 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    My Man: Review
    In what will inevitably be hailed as one of the years more contentious films, comes the...
  • 08 May 201428 June 2022|by J. Fletcher
    To Be Takei: Review
    There is a moment in Jennifer M. Kroot’s documentary To Be Takei, where her subject, Star...
  • 05 December 201309 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Yoshihiro Fukagawa: Poetry in Motion
    You’d be forgiven in assuming a biopic of an elderly Japanese poet might not seem like...
  • 01 May 201308 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Star Trek Into Darkness: Review
    When you look over the cinematic excursions of J.J. Abrams, the 46-year-old producer, writer and director...
  • 15 November 201208 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Evangelion: 3.0 You Can (Not) Redo
    A leviathan of contemporary anime, revered by legions of fans globally, Hideki Anno’s Evangelion mythos first...
  • 15 November 201210 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Miwa Nishikawa: Dream Merchant
    Not unlike most film cultures across the globe, Japan’s cinematic history has borne a significant disadvantage...
  • 12 August 201208 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    The Kirishima Thing: Review
    Regardless of creed, culture or country there is a singularly unifying trial that all teenagers endure,...
  • 08 July 201208 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Mamoru Hosoda Leader of the Pack
    With a history that can be traced to the 12th century, Japanese cartoons, or manga as...
  • 25 January 201208 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    The Wings of the Kirin: Review
    The Japanese have a habit, and a knack, of adapting popular low-budget television series for the...
  • 04 May 201117 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    A Honeymoon in Hell: Mr & Mrs Oki’s Fabulous Trip: Review
    Full of idiosyncratic social commentary underscored with droll comedic styling Ryuichi Honda’s A Honeymoon in Hell:...
  • 10 February 201117 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Ōba: The Last Samurai: Review
    There is an inherent debate that usually surfaces whenever Japan enters the arena of factual war...
  • 25 January 201117 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    GANTZ: Review
    With Hollywood showing no signs of relenting on their homogenized blockbuster comic book exploits, Japanese cinema...
  • 10 October 201025 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Bam Margera: Jackass at Heart
    Having making headlines for their antics in the streets of Japan, India and Australia during their...
  • 20 January 201024 February 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Alessandra Torresani: Ex Machina
    It could be argued that 2004’s Battlestar Galactica has redefined the parameters of contemporary science fiction...
  • 14 December 200914 April 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Peter Jackson: That 70s Show
    Since the mammoth undertaking and subsequent release of his King Kong remake in 2005, Oscar winning...
  • 25 June 200911 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Neill Blomkamp: Straight Outta Joburg
    While the name Neill Blomkamp may not garner much recognition at the moment, the short films...
  • 23 February 200918 May 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Max Beesley: The Great Survivor
    The English have a rich history when it comes to long-form science fiction with some of...
  • 25 October 200810 March 2022|by J. Fletcher
    Anthony Head: Acting King
    Anthony Stewart head has been something of a pop-culture stalwart these past ten years, having entered...
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James Fletcher is an active contributor to Filmink, Australia’s longest running entertainment journal, and currently works as a free-lance entertainment journalist.
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  • Anthony Head: Acting King25 October, 2008 | by J. Fletcher
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