The Substance
Film Review: Shell; Kate Hudson lets loose in campy body horror flick
Arriving not long after The Substance doesn’t bode well for something like Shell, Max Minghella‘s campy, body horror ode to trashy escapist 90s cinema that similarly explores the world of ageing in Hollywood and how far someone will go to maintain perfection. With both films screening within a week of each other at last year’s…
Together; 2 become 1 in hilarious, horrific body horror flick that delights in the disgusting: Sydney Film Festival Review
It feels inevitable that something like Together will earn comparisons to last year’s The Substance, purely off the fact that the horror it indulges in – that would be the body variety – escalates considerably leading into its wild climax. Sure, The Substance being a great example of body horror is all well and good,…
The AU Review’s Best Films of 2024
- December 31, 2024
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- Film
- Film & TV
- A Real Pain
- Adam Elliot
- Adrien Brody
- Anora
- Anya Taylor-Joy
- Ariana Grande
- Babygirl
- Best films
- Best of 2024
- Blink Twice
- Brady Corbet
- Challengers
- Channing Tatum
- Chris Hemsworth
- Clint Eastwood
- Cynthia Erivo
- Daddio
- Dakota Johnson
- demi moore
- end of
- Furiosa
- George Miller
- Heretic
- Hugh Grant
- Immaculate
- Jesse Eisenberg
- Jude Law
- Juror #2
- Kristen Stewart
- list
- Longlegs
- Love Lies Bleeding
- Luca Guadagnino
- Mad Max
- maika monroe
- Memoir of a Snail
- mikey madison
- movies
- Nicholas Cage
- Nicholas Hoult
- Nicole Kidman
- Nosferatu
- Robert Eggers
- Saoirse Ronan
- sean baker
- Sean Penn
- Strange Darling
- sydney sweeney
- The Brutalist
- The Order
- The Outrun
- The Substance
- Wicked
- Zendaya
- Zoe Kravitz
The year that was 2024 in film. Gladicked wasn’t quite Barbenheimer 2.0. Scary movies ruled all (wait, is horror back?). Audiences weren’t Kraven’ superheroes – unless they were Hugh Jackman. Nicholas Hoult quietly emerged as the year’s most reliable leading man. And, like last year, originality was far more satiating. Here at the AU Review…
The Substance; Coralie Fargeat’s meditation on the standards of today’s beauty indulges in bloody, black humour and body horror: TIFF 2024 Review
The idea of wanting to be younger and create a more perfect aesthetic version of one’s self is a thought many (if not all) of us have conjured at one point or another. And so often do the two go hand-in-hand, despite the fact that being younger and looking better aren’t always reliant on the…