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Welcome to the website of Luke Buckmaster, film and TV critic since 1997. Latest work below.
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 →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 →Why are there so few first-person movies?.
Two new films offer point-of-view perspectives, which remain tantalisingly rare.
Published on The Guardian, February 27
Read more →The Lost Tiger is a big-hearted Australian kids film.
This film unpacks potentially cheesy subjects without making you want to dry retch.
Published on The Guardian, March 1
Read more →Is Pixar’s first TV series like Rashomon, but for kids?.
Win or Lose captures the emotional perspectives of various characters associated with a softball team.
Published on Flicks, February 20
Inside is a painfully good prison drama.
Guy Pearce, newcomer Vincent Miller and Shōgun’s Cosmo Jarvis are all remarkable.
Published on The Guardian, March 1
5 great Gene Hackman movies.
Hollywood has lost one of its great actors. Here’s a handful of his best films and performances.
Published on Flicks, February 28
The Last Showgirl isn’t the Pamela Anderson comeback we wanted.
The Last Showgirl was clearly intended as a belated vindication of Pamela Anderson acting talents.
Published on Flicks, February 25
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.
