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Kahn Duncan Mallett

Writer, Creative and Critic

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A multimedia professional spanning various forms of media communication.                                        
                                   

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

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

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

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Recent Articles and Podcast Appearances

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? 

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Ridley Scott makes the end of the world tired and forgettable in 'The Dog Stars' | This Is Film

Ridley Scott seems to believe that enough self-aggrandising about his own recent filmography can convince audiences that these are good movies. This delusion has caused nothing but diminishing returns for his catalogue the past decade – House of Gucci, Gladiator II, and the notably laborious Napoleon – with Ridley getting particularly good at wasting a big cast and an even bigger budget. 


With the exception of The Last Duel, Scott’s latest post-apocalyptic sci-fi drama, The Dog Stars, joins t...
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MIFF 2026 - Martin Mckenna’s 'Wilderness' fails to listen to its environment | Novastream

Written and directed by Martin McKenna, Wilderness is a baffling and mishandled film that chooses to focus more on suburban woes than ecological reverence. When a Melbourne doctor spirals toward a midlife crisis and reunites with her erstwhile best friend, a bizarre trip to the Victorian Alps struggles to make sense of their splintered relationship and shared past. With stale performances and a graceless script, not even the gorgeous vistas of Victoria’s High Country can save the film from feeli...
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Eli Roth gives us a triple scoop of AI slop in the woefully tasteless 'Ice Cream Man' | This Is Film

Ice Cream Man is a morally repugnant mess. It masquerades as a high-concept slasher when it is nothing more than an AI-infested excuse for Eli Roth to amplify his kink for extreme violence. If you’re looking for the next Art the Clown from Terrifier, prepare to be both disgusted and disappointed. With writing, performances, humour, and direction this bad, it won’t come as a surprise when it competes with Citizen Vigilante for the worst film of the year. 


The premise of Ice Cream Man, a soft r...
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Jane Schoenbrun's surreal, sensual, and sensational Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a metatextual feast | This Is Film

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma is a metatextual celebration of horror’s unique capability to confront and via cathartic release give comfort to its audience. Jane Schoenbrun’s psychosexual slasher is hilarious, camp, romantic, and gorgeously complex. Take the rule book of everything you’ve come to know about teen slashers and prepare for a bloody and beautiful deconstruction.


Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma marks the final entry in what Jane is calling their “Screen Trilogy.” Their...
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MIFF 2026: Nino finds Théodore Pellerin wandering the streets of Paris in Pauline Loquès' moving, humanist debut feature | Phrasemaker

Pauline Loquès’ feature debut Nino is an aching slice-of-life French drama. With an obvious nod to Agnès Varda’s French New Wave opus Cléo from 5 to 7, the film follows a young Parisian man over one weekend after he receives a life-altering diagnosis. Winning awards at both Cannes Critics’ Week and the César Awards, Théodore Pellerin anchors this intimate, real-time unravelling with both shock and humanity. He imbues Nino with equal measures of tragedy and humour, trying with varied degrees of s...
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Grief, hedonism, and self-discovery collide in Sam Haynes’ chaotic coming-of-age debut 'Pools' | This Is Film

Figuring out what to do in life is rarely a journey ventured in a straight line. In Sam Haynes’ tender coming-of-age debut feature Pools, that uncertainty is captured through a group of pleasure-seeking summer school students. Leading them is Odessa A’zion’s impulsive college slacker Kennedy, distracted by the recent death of her father and the estrangement of her friend Delaney (Ariel Winter). Kennedy would rather keep her head submerged underwater rather than buried in a textbook. 


Drawing...
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2026’s 'Moana' proves Disney’s originality has sunk to the bottom of the ocean | This Is Film

Disney’s so-called live-action remakes of their beloved animated films have always felt mis-marketed. For the most part, they are still heavily animated – instead of cartoon animation, they rely on photorealistic CGI. There are usually some real humans acting in these digital spaces, but the overall exercise has been a nostalgia mining cash grab. They lobotomise these animated classics in the name of making them modern, “real” movies. The latest surgically engineered offering, Moana, feels despe...
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'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'.