In its 29th year, the Melbourne Queer Film Festival has become an institution as the largest queer film festival in the Southern Hemisphere. The festival continues to grow with over 120 features and shorts, panels,…
Sean Coates
Sean Coates
Sean is a recent film school graduate and aspiring film critic based in Melbourne, Australia. He is MovieBabble's unofficial and self-appointed Australian correspondent and you can read his musings on Australian cinema his monthly column, The Babble Down Under. Sean is also the creator/host of Another Bloody Movie Podcast.
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2019 marks the 30th anniversary of the Alliance Française French Film Festival, bringing the best of contemporary French-language cinema to Australia since 1990. Screening at Palace Cinemas locations all across Australia, this year’s festival hosts…
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Expectations are very interesting to examine when it comes to film. Seeing a filmmaker’s name attached to a movie often gives you an idea of what you’re in for. However, whenever you see the words…
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AnimationReviews
Film Review – How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World (2019)
by Sean Coatesby Sean CoatesIt can be very frustrating as a die-hard film fan living in Australia. Distribution in the land down under is all over place and waiting for films you desperately want to see requires a lot…
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Another Bloody Movie PodcastPodcasts
Film Fiasco – ‘The Greatest Showman’ (Another Bloody Movie Podcast)
by Sean Coatesby Sean CoatesA lot of people fell in love with The Greatest Showman upon its release in 2017. It took many on an emotional rollercoaster with its pop music and charming cast, leading to an extended theatrical…
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Are you are a fan of 70s exploitation films, inept serial killer stories and incredibly tense, darkly comic erotic thrillers? Then I just might have the movie for you. The following review will be spoiler…
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10 years after the release of Taken, anytime you see Liam Neeson on a poster with a killer’s stare and the word ‘revenge’ in the tagline, you know what you’re in for: an over-the-top action…
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Two films that feature titles synonymous with large frozen masses and starring Mads Mikkelsen released just weeks apart? What are the odds? Polar and Arctic will undoubtably become the source of much confusion among audiences, despite being completely…
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Another Bloody Movie PodcastPodcasts
Film Fiasco – ‘The Book of Henry’ (Another Bloody Movie Podcast)
by Sean Coatesby Sean CoatesPoor Colin Trevorrow. You really have to feel sorry for the guy. No matter what he does in future, he’ll always be remembered as either one of two things; The filmmaker that got famously fired…
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News
A Brief Look at the Oscars’ Best Foreign Language Feature Shortlist
by Sean Coatesby Sean CoatesTwo weeks ago, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences unveiled the shortlists for nine categories of the Academy Awards. This included Visual Effects, Make-Up and Hairstyling, Original Song and Score, the Shorts and…
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It seems that I am now MovieBabble’s go-to guy for correspondence on very controversial motion pictures. Films that disgusted and angered critics and audiences now seem to be my specialty. After the LSD-induced, neon-drenched nightmare…
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Back in 2013, both Steve McQueen and Alfonso Cuarón made two incredible films, competing against each other at the Academy Awards. McQueen’s 12 Years A Slave was an incredibly moving period piece about the greatest injustice in…
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Afghan Cycles will be playing at the Denver Film Festival from October 31st to November 11th. Head over to the DFF’s website to purchase your tickets! I have never understood the phrase that something is as ‘easy…
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Another Bloody Movie PodcastPodcasts
Let’s Talk About Suspiria (2018) [Another Bloody Movie Podcast]
by Sean Coatesby Sean CoatesLuca Guadagnino’s reimagining of Dario Argento’s 70s giallo horror classic Suspiria is a film that will inevitably be the subject of numerous video essays, analyses and think pieces. It is a film that will require multiple viewings…
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Another Bloody Movie PodcastPodcasts
Film Fiasco: ‘Wish Upon’ – Exploring a Terrible Movie (Another Bloody Movie Podcast)
by Sean Coatesby Sean CoatesSpoiler alert: Wish Upon sucks. Well, realistically, that’s not a spoiler because everyone knows that it’s true. The high-concept horror flick from 2017 crashed and burn in amazing fashion, becoming a fan favorite as a comedy rather than a…
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Reviews
Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) Reviews – Part 3 (August 10 – 13)
by Sean Coatesby Sean CoatesMIFF may now seem like a long time ago, but hey, I’m still writing mini-reviews for the films I saw at the festival! This is Part 3 — if you have yet to check out…
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Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) Reviews – Part 2 (August 7-9)
by Sean Coatesby Sean CoatesThis is Part 2 of my mini reviews from the Melbourne International Film Festival. If you missed Part 1, read it here. Let’s jump right in! Wajib Palestine’s official entry for Best Foreign language feature…
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Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) Reviews – Part 1 (August 2-6)
by Sean Coatesby Sean CoatesThe 67th annual Melbourne International Film Festival is well and truly underway. With 374 films from 80 countries screening over 18 days, this year’s festival is huge. And I’m privileged to be covering the festival…
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Last month, I travelled to Sydney for the 65th annual Sydney Film Festival. I had an amazing, yet exhausting time, seeing 13 films over the span of just 5 days. I plan to write full…
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It seems these days that if you make a critically acclaimed, financially successful and Oscar nominated film, you can’t just leave it at that. You make a great, contained and singular film with no intention…
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Three years after his role of Patrick Jane on the smash hit CBS series, The Mentalist, came to an end, Australian actor Simon Baker returns to the screen, both in front of and behind the camera. Baker…
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Next month, I will be traveling to the harbour city for the 64th annual Sydney Film Festival (June 6 -17). It will only be my second time attending a major festival and my first time…
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Back in 2013, Yolanda Ramke and Ben Howling wrote and directed the post-apocalyptic drama short, Cargo. When the short became a finalist at world-renowned short film festival TropFest and was then uploaded to their Youtube channel,…