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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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“THIS FILM HAS CHANGED LIVES ALREADY” – SANCTUARY SCREENS AT IRISH FILM FESTIVAL
“To actually have a film that manages to change the law, change people’s lives, there’s nothing better than that.” Director Len Collin flew out from Ireland to attend a special screening of his film Sanctuary, […]
“A WINDOW ON CONTEMPORARY IRELAND” – IRISH FILM FESTIVAL KICKS OFF IN SYDNEY
“It’s great to see confident young people coming out with talent and making films that are as good as any that are coming from anywhere around the world.” Irish Film Festival Director Dr Enda Murray […]
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
This review, or at least the first part of it, is best accompanied by the original Beauty and the Beast’s classic hit ‘Be Our Guest,’ though The Simpson’s similarly classic ‘See My Vest’ will do […]
IRISH FILM FESTIVAL SET FOR ITS BIGGEST YEAR YET
“People are looking for a window on contemporary Ireland and that’s our goal. All of these films, 8 features, they’ve all been made in the last 12 months, so that’s certainly what they’re going to […]
LIFE
It’s very rare that a movie benefits from being both so incredibly smart and so incredibly stupid. But that’s Life. Set aboard the International Space Station where an ill-defined extra-terrestrial proceeds to terrify Ryan Reynolds, […]
THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE
This is the best Batman movie in five years – during which time there’s been almost as many flicks featuring the caped crusader as there have been Best Picture winners. The LEGO Batman Movie […]
A CURE FOR WELLNESS
There’s a very particular type of person who will be willing to sit through let alone relish Gore Verbinski’s two-and-a-half hour ode to gothic fiction’s greatest hits. Let’s see if that’s you: You saw the […]
GET OUT
It would be remiss to describe Get Out as simply a horror-comedy, though an even greater disservice to the film to betray the plot in any significant detail. The directorial debut from Jordan Peele, Get Out’s […]
KONG: SKULL ISLAND
Someone gave Samuel L. Jackson and John C. Reilly a very different script. Anyone going to see Kong: Skull Island would likely have one of two expectations. One, they’re in for a big, explosiony, cgi-filled […]
LOGAN
Logan is so great you’ll almost forget it’s an X-Men movie. There was brief period, between the years 2000 and 2003, where X-Men films were consistently brilliant, original, and more interested in trying to tell […]
FIRST LOOK AT THE MAN WHO SHOT FIRST
In case you live under an Exogorth and haven’t heard, a series of Star Wars sequels and spin-offs, following the enormous success of Rogue One, will inevitably be coming to every cinema near you! Disney […]
T2 TRAINSPOTTING
Did you ever want to relive the anarchic, groundbreaking glory of the original Trainspotting? So did its cast. With rare exceptions, a la Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets, has a film heralding a once largely unknown cast and […]
SILENCE
Silence is about as far as you’ll get from Hollywood fare in a February release from an A-list Director. Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating passion project about two Portuguese Jesuit Priests (Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver) travelling […]
HIDDEN FIGURES
The only flick that managed to knock Rogue One off its perch at the Box Office, it’s not hard to see why. Taking the top spot on opening, Hidden Figures, one of several Best Picture […]
FENCES
It’s a long film, but you’ll barely notice. Fences is based on the Broadway play of the same name, the revival of which in 2010 netted stars Denzel Washington and Viola Davis Tony Awards for […]
MOANA
The Rock. Music by Lin-Manuel Miranda. One half of the Flight of the Conchords team voicing a psychedelic crab. Disney. There isn’t much not to like here. The latest (and one of the better additions) […]
PASSENGERS
Jennifer Lawrence. Chris Pratt. Together. In space. You’d be forgiven for not knowing what Passengers is about, regardless of whether you’ve watched the trailers. While the above few details would normally be enough to sell […]
PATRIOTS DAY
The week following the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013, Wired writer Graeme McMillan, questioning how popular culture will respond to such events, commented: “It might have taken twelve years, but those movies serve as a […]
SPLIT
First things first: Split is not a film about mental illness, it’s a thriller. Those hoping for Hollywood to finally do Dissociative Identity Disorder some semblance of justice, following decades of films featuring more than […]
MANCHESTER BY THE SEA
Casey Affleck’s time has come. The talented performer, better known for bit roles, earlier breakout hit Gone Baby Gone and being his elder brother’s brother, knocks it out of the park in Kenneth Lonergan’s awards […]
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