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Welcome to the website of Luke Buckmaster, film and TV critic since 1997. Latest work below.
Bono: Stories of Surrender is immersive magic.
Apple Vision Pro’s immersive experience returns the frame – then scribbles all over it.
Published on The VR Critic, June 6
Read more →Dangerous Animals is a serial killer meets shark movie.
Jai Courtney eats up his role as the crazed captain of a tourist boat.
Published in The Guardian, June 14
Read more →Final Destination: Bloodlines is a glorious franchise revival.
Bloodlines flips the franchise on its head—literally—with a killer coin and sky-high carnage.
Published on Flicks, May 16
How The Final Reckoning dropped the ball on AI.
This film traded Dead Reckoning’s AI anxiety for high-flying stunts and low-flying ideas.
Published on Flicks, May 23
Read more →Bedevil is a pioneering horror film.
Tracey Moffatt’s triptych of ghost stories is unsettling, audacious, and so crazy it works.
Published on The Guardian, June 4
Read more →Mix Tape is a sweet and intense romance.
Teresa Palmer and Jim Sturgess are fantastic as lovers who reunite years after they dated.
Published on The Guardian, June 12
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David Attenborough is a quiet voice with seismic impact.
Oceans rise; empires fall. But the mighty David Attenborough remains.
Published on The Guardian, June 6
Read more →The Golden Spurtle is a cosy celebration of porridge.
This Australian doco is as wholesome and nourishing as its oat-stirring subjects.
Published on The Guardian, June 7
Read more →AI videos just learned to talk. Everything has changed.
AI video tools are shaking the foundations of filmmaking as we know it.
Published on Flicks, May 30
Read more →MILLER AND MAX.
My book, Miller and Max, is about the career of George Miller and the making of Mad Max. In other words, the story of two heroes. One is Max Rockatansky (aka Mad Max) a leather jacket-clad road warrior whose adventures in a dystopian future have made an indelible imprint on global popular culture. The second is the artist who created him: George Miller, a softly spoken son of Greek and Turkish immigrants, whose life charts a spectacular course from small-town Australia to the highest echelons of Hollywood.
Buy Miller and Max book.
The paperback of Miller and Max is currently released in Australia and New Zealand book shops.
It is currently available to order (with a 23% discount) from Booktopia.
Buy Miller and Max e-book.
The e-book of Miller and Max is now available to purchase, any where in the world.
To buy a copy head over to Amazon.
