Oliver Johnston

Oliver is originally from New Zealand and certainly doesn’t roll his eyes when people make Hobbit jokes after being informed of this fact. He studied journalism in Australia, and parlayed that into writing about films. He watches an alarming amount of Netflix.

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    Movie review
    I Love America
    ★★★★★

    Despite the suggestiveness of its title, I Love America isn’t a new patriotic Fo...

    Oliver Johnston 25th April 2022
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    Movie review
    Casablanca Beats
    ★★★★★

    It’s incredibly easy to imagine a Hollywood studio snapping up the remake rig...

    Oliver Johnston 25th April 2022
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    Movie review
    Hard Cell
    ★★★★★

    Sure, Catherine Tate’s Netflix debut is arriving in the aftermath of The Nan Movie (0%...

    Oliver Johnston 12th April 2022
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    Shows
    Slow Horses
    ★★★★★

    The opening credits of Slow Horses may compel a viewer to press pause in order to do so...

    Oliver Johnston 25th March 2022
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    vod
    Peacemaker
    ★★★★★

    It’s not essential to have seen 2021’s The Suicide Squad film before watching Peacem...

    Oliver Johnston 21st March 2022
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    apple
    WeCrashed
    ★★★★★

    At one point during WeCrashed’s pilot episode, Rebekah Paltrow (Anne Hathaway) clasps he...

    Oliver Johnston 18th March 2022
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    Cinema & Tv
    “They saw me, and they saw women”: An interview with Renate Reinsve about The Worst Person in the World

    It’s not as though most films have hundreds of millions of dollars to spend on marketing ...

    Oliver Johnston 17th March 2022
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    netflix
    Top Boy Season 2
    ★★★★★

    Depending on one’s point of view, this is either the second season of Top Boy ...

    Oliver Johnston 15th March 2022
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    Movie review
    Zeros and Ones
    ★★★★★

    Zeros and Ones, starring Ethan Hawke, is bookended by clips of the actor (as himse...

    Oliver Johnston 4th March 2022
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    netflix
    Pieces of Her
    ★★★★★

    Toni Collette is a performer whose eyes do much of the emotive heavy lifting. They a...

    Oliver Johnston 2nd March 2022