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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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Standing Up For Sonny
Everyone involved in this movie wants you to like it, so, so much
RJ Mitte talks ‘Standing Up For Sonny’
Standing Up For Sonny is about Travis who is really reluctant to have a life and ends up getting a roommate who forces him to get out
The Dead Don’t Die
What a waste of everyone’s time.
Us, the cast, Jim Jarmusch; everyone except Tilda Swinton who here made magic all on her lonesome
JUDY and PUNCH & THE NIGHTINGALE
Note: Plot point discussions follow for Judy and Punch and The Nightingale It’s incredibly disquieting that two revenge flicks, both supported by Australian State funding agencies, both starring Damon Herriman in the role of an […]
PAIN AND GLORY
We don’t deserve Pedro Almodovar; thank God he disagrees
APOLLO 11
The Apollo 11 mission might be one of the last things that might typically call for a suspense-ridden retelling. Thankfully, the filmmakers didn’t listen
NEVER LOOK AWAY
Earning the time to tell this story, The Lives of Others Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck has triumphed again
GHOST TOWN ANTHOLOGY
It’s rare that a film with such efficient storytelling could flounder for nearly two hours.
ENDZEIT – EVER AFTER
Are zombie movies experiencing a fatigue or a renaissance?
FILM FIGHT CLUB S3E15: SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR NASHEN MOODLEY & SFF PREVIEWS
Where we chat all things #SydFilmFest, trends & late announcements with Sydney Film Festival Director Nashen Moodley & preview flicks premiering over the coming few days
THE WEDDING GUEST
A British gun for hire, a wedding, a less than willing bride and a mysterious stranger. What could possibly go wrong? Well, ‘The Wedding Guest’
LEFTOVER WOMEN
That which we do garner from these intimate portraits in their depiction of that so affecting our subjects’ lives is moving and, due in no small part to each of the leads’ willingness to share and be so open, roundly impacting
A DOG CALLED MONEY
PJ Harvey wasn’t up for recording a regular album, so she took it on the road
DIVINE LOVE
A near-futurist neon-dystopian theological Brazilian sex-sci-fi isn’t what you’d normally come across at the cinema, but that’s why we have Film Festivals
THE MIRACLE OF THE LITTLE PRINCE
Above and beyond all else beautifully shot, the sequences in each of the four locations are rendered stunningly as the lens drifts over landscapes or hovers on daily routines or else
HERE COMES HELL
The title tells you everything you need to know
THE BEST OF DORIEN B.
It’s rare you see a newcomer with such star power but then there’s The Best of Dorien B.
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ is something you might never have heard if not for Tennessee Williams. A southernism if ever there was one, one of the titan writer’s most beloved plays is replete […]
AMERICAN PSYCHO THE MUSICAL
American Psycho: The Musical has a fundamental, irreconcilable problem; Patrick Bateman would love it
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