Approaching the Elephant chronicles the efforts of avant-garde teacher Alexander to set up a contentious and highly unorthodox ‘free school’ system. Dedicated to alternative education structures and rejecting the so-called rigid restrictions which accompany more […]
Male escort, musician, art collector and deli owner Salam Kahil has led an interesting life. Dispensing sandwiches and free advice to anyone who walks into his store in Vancouver, Kahil’s flamboyant no-holds-barred attitude to discussing […]
“We go out there, we do our jobs, we play footy, we have a laugh, we have a beer.” A player aptly sums up the ethos of his team and much of The Ground We […]
What’s the worst thing you’ve ever found in a household appliance? Self-made entrepreneur Shannon Whisnant thought he was buying a meat smoker at an auction, only to open it up and find a dismembered leg. […]
A musical-comedy-drama about life in a hyper-intensive office environment, Hong Kong director Johnnie To’s latest offering has combined some old school Hollywood sensibility and style with a very modern corporate sheen. High-powered executives mix their […]
Following the release of the first few Harry Potter novels the film industry quickly jumped on the bandwagon, conjuring up eight movies, a theme park and a merchandising extravaganza to match Star Wars. Each film was […]
What can we expect from the latest adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic? Playing to type as an unhinged professor, the first full-length trailer for James McAvoy’s turn as the obsessive Dr Frankenstein was released yesterday, […]
With only six feature films under his belt, the thirty-something filmmaker Sebastian Silva, is enjoying a retrospective at MIFF and discussed his 2013 feature ‘Crystal Fairy and the Magical Cactus’. “It’s a movie based on […]
Outspoken journalist, Michael Ware, shakes the foundations with his documentary, ‘Only The Dead’. “You’re watching one man’s descent into dark madness, but that would be the most wafer-thin reading of the film.” Australian journalist and […]
‘Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation’, the fifth feature film entry is about to smash into cinemas, so here is your crib notes guide to the blockbuster series. Every entry has been released approximately five years […]
The second feature from Norwegian star/writer/director, Ole Giaever, Out of Nature chronicles the weekend of frustrated officer-worker/family man, Martin (Ole Giaever), as he embarks on a solo mountain hike. Told through the narration of his inner […]
The characters in this film spend most of its running time feeling disorientated and deeply confused… and so do we. The Falling stars Game of Thrones’ Maisie Williams as Lydia, the first of many students […]
“…the latest in a line of promising and highly-involving Scandinavian murder-mysteries.” Danish detective Carl Morck (Nikolaj Lie Kaas) re-opens an investigation into the 20 year-old murder of twins after their retired police-officer father commits suicide. […]
Visiting South African filmmaker, Sibs Shongwe-La Mer discusses the inspiration behind his confronting debut film, Necktie Youth. “I hate Joburg (Johannesburg), it was more an ode to my friends, to where I was from, nothing […]
A Russel Brand-sized headache “There’s nothing in this film you don’t already know.” Comedian and self-styled activist Russel Brand kicks off his documentary about greed, the financial crisis and whatever else he’s angry at this […]
Premiering over the weekend, Australian documentary, Sherpa, is the only documentary vying for the Sydney Film Prize at the Sydney Film Festival. “I watched the Sherpas on many a cutting room floor for Everest films… […]
Enfant terrible theatre director turned filmmaker, Simon Stone, makes a splash with his first film, The Daughter, which is vying for the lucrative Sydney Film Prize. “A group of actors made this more human than […]
“Four years ago when Charlotte [Mars] and I started making this film we couldn’t imagine that our country would be debating marriage equality when we released it” Gayby Baby director Maya Newell addresses a sold-out […]
With Season 3 of ‘Hannibal’ soon to hit screens, Glen Falkenstein questions whether this show can truly distinguish itself from its predecessor. The latest incarnation of Dr Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) has thus far haunted two […]
A top cast can’t save a bad idea. Here’s the proof. Director Michael Almereyda (Hamlet, Nadja) transplants Cymbeline, one of Shakespeare’s lesser-known and least popular plays, onto a modern day war between a bikie gang, […]
A show that epitomises the current television golden age has just come to a fitting conclusion. Mad Men finished this week after 8 tumultuous years for Don Draper (John Hamm), his children and anyone who […]
More than a documentary on the public rivalry between liberal intellectual, Gore Vidal, and conservative heavyweight, William F. Buckley Jr, ‘Best of Enemies’ is a boxing match played out through rounds of televised debate and […]
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