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Welcome to the website of Luke Buckmaster, film and TV critic since 1997. Latest work below.
The Rehearsal season 2: still brilliantly unhinged.
Nathan Fielder cranks up the chaos, with dark humour and surreal simulations.
Published on Flicks, April 30
Bad Genius turns high school exams into high-stakes heist.
Bad Genius reinvents the heist movie – with a pencil and eraser.
Published on Flicks, April 10
The Soloist is a 360 doco that looks oomph.
It should’ve been jaw-dropping spectacle, but it’s staid and uninvigorating.
Published on The VR Critic, April 29
Cillian Murphy is quietly powerful in These Small Things.
Somber tones, evocative imagery, and a morally complex leading performance.
Published on Flicks, April 10
The Correspondent is important and powerfully told.
Richard Roxburgh is excellent as jailed Australian journalist Peter Greste.
Published on The Guardian, April 17
3 films to see at the Alliance Française French Film Festival.
Here’s my reviews of Before What Comes After, This Life of Mine and Niki.
Published on Flicks, March 15
Read more →Lovesick is VR game with maddening mechanics.
It arrives already looking and feeling a bit dated; god knows how it’ll play in a decade.
Published on The VR Critic, March 14
Read more →The Narrow Road to the Deep North review.
Justin Kurzel’s adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s novel eschews battleground spectacle.
Published on The Guardian, April 18
4 movies that paved the way for The Substance.
Here are some spectacularly strange, sticky-icky body transformation movies.
Published on Flicks, March 5
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.
