Sydney’s second annual Irish Film Festival concluded at The Chauvel Cinema in Sydney’s Paddington following four days of screenings, closing with the Australian premiere of Lost In The Living, which chronicles an Irish musician’s (Tadgh […]
Category: Festivals
SECOND ANNUAL IRISH FILM FESTIVAL WRAPS WITH LOST IN THE LIVING
Sydney’s Irish Film Festival enjoyed another big year in 2016, and was capped off with a screening of Robert Manson’s vivid musical adventure, Lost In The Living. Sydney’s second annual Irish Film Festival concluded on […]
MEET THE TROPFEST 2016 WINNER
Spencer Susser has taken out the top prize at the Tropfest short film festival in Sydney for his stop-motion comedy Shiny alongside filmmaking partner Daniel Cloud-Campos. He sat down to share his thoughts on the importance […]
CURTAIN
Nurse and new home owner Danni (Danni Smith) discovers a mysterious portal in, of all things, her shower. In spite of many attempts to hang up a shower curtain, it keeps getting sucked into oblivion […]
CRUSHED
Thriller, family drama and murder mystery, Ellia (Sarah Bishop) returns to her family’s vineyard in rural Australia after her father is crushed by a barrel, only to learn that members of her family are prime […]
APPROACHING THE ELEPHANT
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 […]
THE SANDWICH NAZI
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 […]
THE GROUND WE WON
“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 […]
FINDERS KEEPERS
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. […]
AFTERPLAY
A treat for Chekhov fans, Afterplay is a long overdue catch-up with some of the author’s most famous characters. Set in Russia in the 1920’s, Andrey from The Three Sisters (Wayne Bassett) meets Sonya from […]
DARK VANILLA JUNGLE
Intense, sparse and confronting, Dark Vanilla Jungle is in every sense a discomforting night of theatre. A monologue stretched over 90 minutes, Philip Ridley’s play as performed by Claudia Barrie covers any number of distressing […]
SF3 Festival: Smartphones creating the future cinema classics
“There are feature films being made on smartphones now, so for all the finalists, your dreams can be bigger.” A presenter accurately pitched the inaugural festival to a theatre full of finalists, families and keen […]
ROBOT OVERLORDS
This had the potential to be an amazing movie. With the opening line already a slap in the face to conventional wisdom and logical plot development, on par with 2012‘s “the neutrinos have mutated” – this sci-fi […]
7 CHINESE BROTHERS
The lyrics of R.E.M’s lesser-known hit ‘7 Chinese Brothers,’ for which the film is named, do little to make sense of this elusive comedy, or at least make sense of the title. But that’s kind of […]
Tripping on Sebastian Silva
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 […]
In The Mouth of Madness
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 […]
Raiders! The Story of the Greatest Fan Film Ever Made
If you could star in your favourite movie, would you do it? Well these guys did. 11 year-olds Chris, Eric and Jayson saw cult classic Raiders of the Lost Ark on its initial release and […]
DANNY SAYS
A jukebox movie of sorts, Danny Says takes us through The Beatles, The Stooges, Iggy Pop and any number of famed 60’s/70’s acts, told through the eyes and experience of behind the scenes music icon […]
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine
Idol. Visionary. Demon. Saviour. Prick. A very complex picture of Apple CEO and inventor Steve Jobs gets painted in Alex Gibney’s biopic, one ofmany feature films and documentaries made following the controversial figure’s death. The […]
RUBEN GUTHRIE
“Australians don’t want to be told we’re doing something wrong… we like to see ourselves on screen, but not criticized.” Brendan Cowell addressed a huge gathering at the Sydney Apple Store following a screening of […]
Song of the Sea
Song of the Sea had its Irish premiere earlier this evening at the Galway Film Fleadh. Glen Falkenstein sent us this review from the film’s Australian premiere at this year’s Sydney Film Festival. Films routinely […]
Mr Holmes – Clueless, my dear Watson
Based on Mitch Cullin’s novel A Slight Trick of the Mind, Sir Ian McKellen plays a 93-year-old Sherlock, wiling away his retirement on the Dover coast and slowly losing his great faculties. Replacing Dr Watson […]
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