Where we fight about our Sydney Film Festival favourites and what to look out for in cinemas – join Glen Falkenstein, Virat Nehru and Chris Evans Wednesday Nights at 7:30 on 2SER 107.3
Glen writes film reviews, features, commentary and covers festivals, events and interviews for a number of publications
Category: Festivals
MCLAREN
Only the second and last driver to win a Formula One Grand Prix with his name on the bonnet, Bruce McLaren’s formidable legacy gets a fairly laudable treatment in Roger Donaldson’s new documentary. No stranger […]
THE BEGUILED
There are two films here – you might like one of them, and you may struggle to like both. Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled, based on the novel by Thomas P. Cullinan, itself adapted by Don […]
PACMEN
No one wants to see how the sausage is made. You might however want to see this film. The Republican primary season of 2016 will inevitably be the subject of countless films and documentaries. One […]
OTHERLIFE
Fixing on a great idea or something you haven’t seen before isn’t easy – watching any flick is that much better when you know the filmmakers have floored their premise. Home-grown Aussie sci-fi OtherLife asks […]
THE FARTHEST
Imagine knowing that the first time extra-terrestrial life hears a human voice, it might be yours. Or better yet, Chuck Berry. Charting the Voyager project from the get-go to, as Star Trek fans can attest […]
LUKE WALKER ON PACMEN AND BEING IN THE RIGHT PLACE
“They not only persuaded him (Ben Carson) to run but they get him to number one in the polls and when that happened, two weeks after I got there Carson had got to […]
MY NAME IS EMILY
Uplifting if wildly uneven, My Name is Emily will leave you with a smile on your face and no doubt scratching your head. Emily (Harry Potter’s Evanna Lynch) has had a rough time. Her […]
WIND RIVER
Taylor Sheridan. Remember that name. The Actor turned Writer and now Director blew away audiences with Sicario in 2015 and only a year later turned over Hell or High Water, the criminally underrated Oscars dark […]
DIRECTOR BEN LUCAS ON THE ‘OTHERLIFE’ WORLD PREMIERE
“We distinctly set it in Perth, we set it in Australia, it is now an Australian story, we took the very broad concept that was the novel and did quite a lot of […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 8: SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
Join Glen Falkenstein, Virat Nehru and special guest Addy Fong for Sydney Film Festival highlights and all the flicks to catch at the Fest – Wednesdays 7:30pm on 2SER 107.3
AMANDA STHERS ON THE WORLD PREMIERE OF ‘MADAME’
“I think we all feel at a certain point that we are not welcome in a place or that we don’t fit in. We have all been the maid at a dinner party […]
THE FOREST OF LOST SOULS
Let’s go with glass half full. The debut feature by Portugese Director Jose Pedro Lopes, The Forest of Lost Souls, at least for the first Act, is engrossing horror. Set upon dying in a forest […]
I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” Director Raoul Peck’s I Am Not Your Negro is not a film that lends itself to casual nor […]
IT’S NOT YET DARK
An uplifting story for film-tragics, anyone familiar with the impact of Motor Neuron Disease, or both, It’s Not Yet Dark, unlike the many fictional stories that no doubt inspired its central figure, is all the […]
BETTER WATCH OUT
It’s one thing to be knocked off your feet by a top horror flick, it’s another entirely to find out they shot it down the road from your childhood home. Set in a quiet suburban […]
THE OTHER SIDE OF HOPE
Compelling if flawed, the one thing you can’t fault here is the title. Driving right at the heart of the radically different notions that makes this film tick, The Other Side of Hope manages to […]
INGRID GOES WEST
Ingrid Goes West, like so many good satires, is barely so. The growth of social media and Instagram in particular has not been the subject of broad filmic introspection as the industry, fairly contending with […]
THE WORKER’S CUP
Going beyond the headlines of Qatar’s controversial bid for the 2022 FIFA tournament, The Worker’s Cup focuses on a very different but by no means less compelling competition, that of the workers building the stadiums. […]
PHANTOM BOY
A boy. A cop. A reporter. A crime. A supervillain, and a phantom. Thankfully, there’s nothing too regular about French animation Phantom Boy, a pleasing fantasy feature for kids everywhere. Leo (Alex Gagnol), confined to […]
SPOOKERS
Filling an old psychiatric hospital with scary clowns who frighten tourists might seem like a strange way to spend your days, but then you haven’t met this family. The perfect backdrop for a theme park […]
THAT’S NOT ME
Sometimes all you need is a good lead and a good idea. Wannabee actress Polly Cuthbert (Alice Foulcher) has to deal with the newfound on-screen success of her identical twin sister (also, Alice Foulcher). Constantly […]
