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Welcome to the website of Luke Buckmaster, film and TV critic since 1997. Latest work below.
The biggest streaming titles coming in February.
Titles landing on streaming include The Substance, Furiosa and new White Lotus.
Published on The Guardian, February 1
Read more →Presence is a unique horror movie.
You’ve never seen a horror movie quite like Presence, which reinvigorates old elements.
Published on Flicks, February 7
No, Tarantino: movies are not dead.
Quentin Tarantino recently delivered a massive tirade, declaring that movies are dead.
Published on Flicks, February 7
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
Grand Tour is a beautifully aloof and adrift film.
This film has a beautifully aloof way of capturing cities, feeling out of time and out of place.
Published on Flicks, February 18
High Potential’s protagonist isn’t a great TV detective.
Does this person have any flaws at all? The screenwriters insist she’s everything to everyone.
Published on Flicks, February 15
The psychedelia of full dome cinema.
Watching a full dome film is sort of like going to the movies, and sort of not.
Published on The Guardian, January 28
Read more →Masked and Anonymous is a truly bizarre Bob Dylan movie.
It’s no surprise that audiences weren’t engaged by it, and critics reacted viscerally.
Published on Flicks, January 25
Read more →What a Bob Dylan fanatic thinks of A Complete Unknown.
I’ve been obsessed with Bob Dylan since I was a teenager…
Published on Flicks, January 23
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.