Kahn Duncan Mallett

Writer, Creative and Critic

About Me

A multimedia professional spanning various forms of media communication.                                        
                                   

How I Work

A passionate writer, producer and organiser on both the film and television landscape - one who is able to write in a critical capacity. 

My Ethos

A commitment to respecting the industry standard, writing with integrity, equality for all, and listening with care.

Get in Touch

Always just an email away, am very eager to develop strong communication skills with all walks of life.                                                                

Recent Articles

As a member for the Australian Film Critic Association (AFCA), I enjoy writing critical reviews on the film, theatre, and television landscape. At the heart of my writing I am looking for what theme or message each piece of media is trying to tell its audience - can they learn something, can they laugh at something, or can they be moved by something? 

MIFF REVIEW: Kim A. Snyder’s powerful documentary 'The Librarians' chronicles America's fight against censorship | Novastream

The Librarians is a sobering and essential documentary detailing America’s accelerating descent into theocratic censorship. Director Kim A. Snyder follows several brave librarians in states like Texas and Florida, placing the necessary spotlight on a profession that shockingly has become dangerous – both legally and physically. Just five years ago, such a claim would have seemed al...

MIFF Review: Michel Gondry’s whimsical stop-motion adventure Maya, Give Me a Title is a labour of paternal love - The Curb | Film and Culture

Maya, Give Me a Title (Maya, Donne-moi un Titre) is a sweet and imaginative film about the intersection of art and parenthood. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind director Michel Gondry combines a simple animated style with masterful stop-motion technique to create an hour-long compilation of short films—all inspired by titles creatively provided by his young daughter, Maya.

MIFF Review: Exit 8 loops its protagonist—and its audience—in a psychologically draining descent - The Curb | Film and Culture

Exit 8 is an inventive and repetitive exercise in expanding what was once a simple video game into a character-driven psychological horror. Based on the 2023 adventure game The Exit 8 by developer Kotake Create, director Genki Kawamura transforms what is essentially a glorified spot-the-difference simulator into an anxiety-fuelled time loop exploring isolation, emotional paralysis, and the fear of fatherhood.

Elio (2025) | Film Review | This Is Film | Pixar returns with a reminder that friendship and community can extend beyond the galaxy

Elio is a delightful family adventure that channels the cosmic possibilities of the universe into a story of hope, empathy, and connection. The film follows eleven-year-old Elio (Yonas Kibreab), a lonely and displaced boy who dreams of being abducted by aliens and finding a new home at the behest of his aunt Olga (Zoe Saldaña), a U.S Air Force Major...

Ryan Coogler's Sinners mixes Blues, vampires and gangsters: birthing a transcendent masterpiece - The Curb | Film and Culture

Ryan Coogler’s Sinners is a Southern Gothic fable that combines music, history, religion, and horror: building into an imaginative, cinematic eruption. Set in 1932 in rural Mississippi, the film follows twin brothers Smoke and Stack (Michael B. Jordan) who return to their home of Clarksdale to establish a Juke Joint for the local Black community. Little do they know sinister forces are gathering...

The Accountant 2 improves on the original, but Ben Affleck's ledger still needs balancing - The Curb | Film and Culture

The Accountant 2 is a mishmash of tone that has surplus of entertaining laughs but a deficit of consistency and genre coherence. The action thriller is a direct sequel to 2016’s The Accountant, in which Ben Affleck’s Christian Wolff must team up with his brother Braxton (Jon Bernthal) to help treasury Agent Marybeth Medina (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) solve the murder of someone close to her...

Death of A Unicorn Review - a satirical unicorn frenzy whose horns needed sharpening | Novastream

Death of a Unicorn suffers from ‘eat the rich’ fatigue, an increasing malaise present in the popular genre of class war satire, where bluntness and broadness replace originality and bite. Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega fail to anchor a horror-comedy send-up of big pharma in which unicorns become more than the stuff of fantasy—they become a Jurassic Park resource for the rich...

Climate and Marketing Blog

Explore a featured selection of my blog below. They are all tied to the theme of how climate communication is addressed in cinema, as well as exploring various forms of digital marketing inside the media landscape. 

‘An Inconvenient Truth’ taught me the truth when I was in school, but is it convenient now?

When I was in school, I was forced to watch the 2006 documentary ‘An Inconvenient Truth‘, a statement I am sure applies to many others who have grown up in the 21st century. What was a seminal piece of climate cinema at the time, people are now questioning it’s effectiveness in today’s age. This begs the question, how much of our climate media is outdated now?

'Sensory Animation' missing 90 seconds of footage due to copyright. For education purposes of Monash University only.

Sensory Animation: an Audio-Visual Essay

As part of a university project, I was tasked with exploring the idea of conveying film theory and analysis in the form of an audio-visual essay. This involves taking audio, film clips and sometimes narration that adds a new lens or context to a specific scene, code or idea in a film and/or films. A collection of animated features were put together here to form what became known as 'Sensory Animation'.