Switching gears midway through a film isn’t always a bad thing. Kostis (Makis Papadimitriou) arrives at his new home and passing holiday destination for many – a beautiful Greek Island, surviving with 800 residents in […]
Category: Festivals
CHEVALIER
A celebration of all things man, Chevalier’s escalating Olympics of masculine one-upmanship is something to which a lot of dudes will very much relate. Confined to a yacht in the Aegean Sea, a group of […]
FRANK & LOLA
Michael Shannon, leagues ahead of even this exultantly talented cast, nails it again in Matthew Ross’ new romantic thriller. Frank (Michael Shannon) loves Lola (Imogen Poots). Frank is a struggling chef. Lola is a struggling […]
BEWARE THE SLENDERMAN
Who is, Slenderman? Imprinted on the popular consciousness after years of online obscurity, the highly-publicized stabbing of a 12-year-old in Waukesha, Wisconsin, reportedly to appease the Slenderman, brought the little known pocket of digital folklore harshly […]
LOUIS THEROUX: MY SCIENTOLOGY MOVIE
What do you do when the group you’re trying to expose, as would be expected, don’t play ball? Make a film to spite them. Louis Theroux’s My Scientology Movie takes a bunch of frustrated documentarians, […]
ELLE
To anyone increasingly frustrated by a lack of originality or who reckons cinema today is ‘too safe,’ Elle has you covered. Opening with the brutal home invasion and sexual assault of its title character (Isabelle […]
DIRECTOR DAVID FARRIER TALKS ‘TICKLED’
“It’s about a tickling competition but then it gets a lot darker and I don’t really want them to know anything more than that.” New Zealand journalist, TV personality, andTickled director/star David Farrier sat down to […]
KILLING GROUND
Silence is golden for a good horror film. Killing Ground isn’t the first shocker to be filmed in the isolation of the Australian bush, and based on the success of the formula, deployed to no […]
BORN TO BE BLUE
Robert Budreau’s Chet Baker biopic had the opportunity to riff off any number of Chet Baker tunes and titles. The Whitlams’ ‘Thank you (for loving me at my worst)’ might have suited even better. Thankfully […]
HIGH-RISE
It’s none too helpful when a film’s characters, and in this case its narrator, in no uncertain terms tell us exactly what we should think about it. An adaptation of the J.G. Ballard novel expositing […]
THE NEON DEMON
The Nicolas Winding Refn film for people who don’t like Nicolas Winding Refn, in The Neon Demon his, particular way of doing things, just works. A Director conversely lambasted and celebrated for heralding a counter-intuitively […]
BEING 17
To put it bluntly, it’s a very touching movie that could have done a lot more with less. French drama Being 17 chronicles some months in the lives of teenagers and high school adversaries Damien […]
THE FAMILY FANG
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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