Luke Buckmaster, Author at Daily Review: Film, stage and music reviews, interviews and more.

Disney had the world stage to make a great film about the environment. Instead it made The Lion King

Disney’s new The Lion King remake opens with the sounds of birds chirping and the sight of a golden sun …

All of us remember Disney’s classic 1992 animated movie Aladdin, about the genie-summoning pauper who pretends to be a prince …

Is Avengers: Endgame one of the worst blockbuster movies ever made? Should it even be called a movie in the …

The ABC’s 7:30 program is a reliable source of quality journalism, offering dignified current affairs investigations at a time in …

There were several excellent Australian TV productions that graced our screens in 2018 – from the asylum seeker drama Safe …

There are objectively bad movies, and then there are movies as objectively bad as Aquaman: the kind of candy-coloured studio-dictated …

The first episode of SBS’s four-part drama On the Ropes (which premiered this week) begins with an image reminiscent of …

The veteran rabble-rouser Michael Moore’s latest film Fahrenheit 11/9, which opened in Australian cinemas last week, begins by invoking déjà vu. …

What is more important for a filmmaker: telling an interesting story in interesting ways, or attempting to evoke the sensation …

How do you design a unique aesthetic for a sci-fi series based in the not-too-distant future? The dank, rain-clogged and …