Sometimes, subtlety doesn’t actually help. A family reunion in a small Polish village isn’t your usual setting for the surreal or supernatural. When a long-since absent sister returns to her siblings and ailing mother, things […]
Author: Glen Falkenstein
Glen produces film, theatre and television news, reviews and commentary for a number of outlets, covering Festivals, interviews and events.
Glen lives in Sydney where he enjoys making short films.
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THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE
It took decades to get this film to theatres; the finished product, as much as Terry Gilliam’s perseverance, is as strong a reminder as any of why we watch movies, and always will. Ad-man and […]
THE SEEN AND UNSEEN
Most stories are better without a sledgehammer to drive it’s point home, though subtlety doesn’t always help. Set in rural Bali, 10 year-old Tantri, contending with her gravely ill twin brother who is no longer […]
DON’T WORRY HE WON’T GET FAR ON FOOT
The presence of the ever-talented Joaquin Phoenix is enough to recommend a movie, even this one. Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far on Foot, Gus Van Sant’s biopic of Oregon cartoonist John Callahan who passed […]
NUMBER 37
There have been a lot of adaptations, homages or films otherwise inspired by Rear Window; Number 37 might just be the best. Confined to a wheelchair and an upper-level apartment of a Cape Town township […]
UPGRADE
Upgrade is a B-Movie and when the audience and the film itself embraces this, everyone is going to have a lot of fun. Set in semi-futuristic USA, Grey (Logan Marshall-Green), paralysed following a freak attack […]
GHOST STORIES
Have you ever wanted to be scared by one of those old spook houses before they went out of fashion? Ghost Stories will remind you of one of the rides you went on at Luna […]
SUPPORT THE GIRLS
Us flies chose well to spend a day on the wall with this crew. Following a group of friends, co-workers and new recruits thrown into the deep-end of a highway-side “sports bar with curves,” an […]
MELBOURNE DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL LAUNCHES PROGRAM
With documentaries proving ever a Festival favourite, the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival has released it’s annual program set to kick off in July. With features ranging from New Zealand to Japan, from George Michael […]
SOLO: A STAR WARS STORY
It’s exactly what you think. In Solo’s far and above best sequence, when one character tells another “don’t improvise,” you know what is going to happen. Both a highlight and cautionary tale for the film […]
TULLY
Tully is one of those terribly difficult films to discuss without spoilers, so bear with me. The second Diablo Cody collaboration with Charlize Theron following Young Adult and third Cody collaboration with Juno Director Jason […]
DEADPOOL 2
The worst sin a movie can commit is far from being irreverent. To the contrary, that’s what movies so often and acceptably are, and if they happen to flounder into the realms of theses beyond […]
KODACHROME
Two years ago, an artificial intelligence robot called Benjamin wrote a screenplay after absorbing hundreds of others taken from science fiction films and television. Rudimentary, the finished product nonetheless bore basic tenets and tropes of […]
PROGRAM LAUNCH: 25 FLICKS TO CATCH AT THE SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL
If finding the quickest routes from Dendy Newtown to Circular Quay to the State Theatre is a challenge you face yearly, then you’re as excited for the Sydney Film Festival as the hundreds of eager […]
ANON
One of those near-future escapades where the execution is barely a match for the idea, Clive Owen and Amanda Seyfried give it all they’ve got in Anon. Starring respectively as a hardened detective and an […]
AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR
Magnificent and magnificently flawed, when judged against the standards set by its precursors Avengers: Infinity War joyously excels. And it is only fair to judge this and all other entries against the now 19-strong behemoth […]
FOURTH ANNUAL IRISH FILM FESTIVAL LAUNCHES IN SYDNEY
The fourth annual Irish Film Festival kicked off in it’s 2018 run at Paddington’s Chauvel Cinema with a sold-out screening of Maze, based on the 1983 breakout of a heavily-fortified prison in Northern Ireland. The […]
TRUTH OR DARE
Truth or Dare is the model of what to do and what not to do in a horror film. Step one – always, always find that great premise. The one that sets you apart and […]
THE GUERNSEY LITERARY AND POTATO PEEL PIE SOCIETY
The most British thing since the last Lily James Second World War drama, The Guernsey Literary & Potato Peel Pie Society (hereafter mercifully referred to as ‘Guernsey’) is, thankfully, a great deal better. Whereas Darkest […]
RAMPAGE
“Of course the wolf flies.” This one line, uttered with seamless sincerity and Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson’s boundless enthusiasm tells you everything you need to know about this movie. If you’re still reading, it’s because […]
CHAPPAQUIDDICK
There’s a fantastic movie in cinemas now. It’s a dark thriller with some counter-intuitively comic elements, telling of a tumultuous period decades-past. It’s called The Death of Stalin. There is also Chappaquiddick. The film’s events, […]
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