A lesser film spends a lot of time explaining itself. A good film doesn’t have to. Jason Bateman’s second feature directorial effort has an unusual, and to its credit original premise which it spends a […]
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Glen produces film, theatre and television news, reviews and commentary for a number of outlets, covering Festivals, interviews and events.
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PROOF
“It’s a beautiful film, it’s an absolutely beautiful film. I felt like I was almost watching another person that’s how long ago it was.” Proof star Hugo Weaving joined Margaret Pomeranz and the crew of […]
SPLIT – SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO
The first trailer for M. Night Shyamalan’s Split just landed and it’s got a lot of people excited. Following on from the Director’s (once dubbed the next Spielberg) 2015 low-budget, critical hit The Visit, also […]
I AM NOT A SERIAL KILLER
Do you like shows about serial killers, sociopaths and those pesky, none-too-slightly unhinged stalwarts of horror flicks that go bump in the night? Mining our collective fascination revived 25 years ago with The Silence of […]
GHOSTBUSTERS
Did you watch Ghostbusters on TV last week? The classic 80’s comedy doing the rounds on the networks in light of its remake/reimagining/reboot’s largely redundant release? Then you might want to wait a little bit […]
STAR TREK BEYOND
Star Trek remains one of the most popular shows on television because, like its crew, we were always willing to let the Enterprise take us somewhere new, somewhere shocking, and in Star Trek Beyond, somewhere […]
INDEPENDENCE DAY: RESURGENCE
You can always rely on Hollywood to up the ante. Finding new landmarks to destroy was never going to be enough. Teasing the annihilation of a rebuilt, reinforced White House, only one stop in a […]
LOVE & FRIENDSHIP
Austen-lite – the author’s trademark disdain for polite society is on full display in Whit Stillman’s condensed, easily consumable ode to the Bath legend’s inestimable literary canon. Any fan of Austen or Wilde alike will […]
LIFE, ANIMATED
Do you like Disney? Of course you do. Not as much as this guy. Diagnosed with autism early in life, Owen Suskind’s parents weren’t sure when or how they would be able to communicate again. […]
SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL CLOSING NIGHT GALA AND AWARDS
The 63rd annual Sydney Film Festival concluded tonight, with the 2016 Sydney Film Prize going to Kleber Mendonca Filho for Brazilian drama ‘Aquarius,’ the Jury favourite out of the 12 entries in this year’s official […]
SING STREET
“That’s a bold move. Let’s do it.” A jukebox of 80s classics with its own original songs, Sing Street aims to be a crowd-pleaser, and please it does. Theorising that forming a band is the best […]
CAPTAIN FANTASTIC
“Should I make my way out of home into the woods… too hot for the band with a desperate desire for change.” The hark-back to lyrics from ‘Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy,’ the […]
THE RED TURTLE
Strong and silent in equal measure, Studio Ghibli/Wild Bunch’s co-production The Red Turtle, notably devoid of dialogue, masterfully fills its moments with movement and an eclectic mix of sound you wouldn’t normally hear, setting a […]
DESTINATION ARNOLD
Many films have chronicled the bodybuilding champs and tournaments, most famously in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ’77 hit Pumping Iron. Relocating the action to Redfern and Newtown, Destination Arnold centres on Tash and Kylene, two local Indigenous […]
KYLENE ANDERSON TALKS ‘DESTINATION ARNOLD’
“I started because I wanted to take it to the extreme and see how far I could go.” Competing in the Arnolds – an amateur bodybuilding competition recently held in Australia for the […]
MOM AND ME
A tale as old as time – filmmaker Ken Wardrop has put the relationships between mothers and sons on full display in this contemplative and touching documentary. Setting the film in all places in what […]
GIRL ASLEEP
A film that will inevitably be compared to the collective works of Lewis Carroll and Wes Anderson, this accomplishedly charming and distinctly-styled Australian comedy recommends itself all on its own. Greta (Bethany Whitmore in a […]
PERSONAL SHOPPER
Kristen Stewart’s come a long way since Twilight. It’s hard to command a thriller, let alone a psychological horror that rises and falls on its central performance, in this case that of personal shopper Maureen […]
THE DEVIL’S CANDY
Getting stuck in a haunted house has never sounded so good. Australian writer/director Sean Byrne’s (The Loved Ones) The Devil’s Candy is, for the most part, fairly recognisable horror fare. There’s a spooky house where […]
PATERSON
Adam Driver is Paterson; both his moniker and that of Paterson, New Jersey where the film is set. The point is not lost, nor thankfully overstated in Director Jim Jarmusch’s delightfully introspective comedy. Paterson is […]
THE CHILDHOOD OF A LEADER
A lot of folks will see this film for Robert Pattinson, but they should see it for the score. It’s rare to see such exceptional pieces of music put so deftly to use. Actor Brady […]
A FISH (MUL-GO-GI)
Neo-noir meets the great unknown in this South Korean dual drama/thriller delving into the forces of mysticism and death. Lee, Professor and husband (Lee Jang-Hoon), travels far to track down his missing wife, accompanied by […]
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