Daniel Henshall Archives

Snowtown (2011)

Rating: ★★★★

Nov 10, 2020True-Life Serial Killings

Underrated and quite brilliant film about a series of true-life Australian serial killings, this has an extraordinary dangerousness in the way it observes highly disturbing things with calm detachment

Director: Justin Kurzel

Actors: Daniel Henshall, Lucas Pittaway, Louise Harris, Richard Green

Category: Horror

10 November 20202 May 2024 by Roog

These Final Hours (2013)

Rating: ★★★★

Nov 5, 2014End of the World

Excellent Australian End of the World film. Think On the Beach by way of Last Night. The visions of social collapse are astonishingly raw, while the centre of the film is the emotional journey between a man and a child

Director: Zak Hilditch

Actors: Nathan Phillips, Angourie Rice, Jessica De Gouw, Daniel Henshall, …

Category: Science Fiction

5 November 201420 February 2026 by Roog

The Babadook (2014)

Rating: ★★★★

Dec 13, 2014Childhood Boogeyman

A film about childhood boogeymen that takes place as a work of psychological horrors, where everything could be happening in the imagination of a stressed mother's collapsing mental state. An extraordinarily assured directorial debut

Director: Jennifer Kent

Actors: Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Hayley McElhinney, Daniel Henshall

Category: Horror

13 December 20149 July 2025 by Roog

Okja (2017)

Rating: ★★★

Jul 23, 2017Genetically-Engineered Super-Pigs

Boon Jong Ho's version of E.T., albeit one where E.T. is a genetically-engineered pig the size of an SUV, not to mention one with an oddball sense of humour that it is hard to imagine being enjoyed by young age groups

Director: Bong Joon-ho

Actors: An Seo Hyun, Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Jake Gyllenhaal, …

Category: Science Fiction

23 July 201712 April 2025 by Roog

Mickey 17 (2025)

Rating: ★★★½

Apr 12, 2025Cloning/Planetary Colonisation

Parasite director Bong Joon Ho makes an ambitious SF film where Robert Pattinson as a clone(s) on a planetary colonisation expedition who becomes embroiled in trying to save an alien species

Director: Bong Joon-ho

Actors: Robert Pattinson, Naomi Ackie, Mark Ruffalo, Toni Collette, …

Category: Science Fiction

12 April 202525 April 2026 by Roog