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Category: Festivals
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.
FILM FIGHT CLUB S3E14: #SYDFILMFEST DOCUMENTARIES, ROCKETMAN & ALADDIN
Where we chat all things #SydFilmFest with Documentary Program Co-ordinator Jenny Neighbour, Guess Why They Call It The Blues and fight about Aladdin till we’re blue in the face
HIGH FANTASY
Four South African twenty-somethings of diverse racial backgrounds go on a camping trip into the country. Shot on a set of iPhones and largely improvised, they awake one morning to find they’ve switched bodies
MELBOURNE DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL LAUNCHES 2019 PROGRAM
Weird, searing, strange and wonderful – the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival has launched their 2019 slate! This year’s run features among many entries the story of Marc Hauser (above) who dearly wants to be the […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S3E13: #SYDFILMFEST CLASHES & GAME OF THRONES FINALE
Where we fight about what we’re seeing and what you should see at the Sydney Film Festival and whether democracy will ever come to Westeros
THE DRUMMER AND THE KEEPER
Casting matters. So does chemistry
FLOAT LIKE A BUTTERFLY
tinging like a bee, Float Like A Butterfly lands every hook we’ve come to expect from boxing flicks, while unlike almost any that’s made it to the big screen
FILM FIGHT CLUB S3E11: #SYDFILMFEST PROGAM LAUNCH, SFF DIRECTOR NASHEN MOODLEY, SBS WORLD MOVIES + SPANISH FILM FEST, IRISH FILM FEST & CINEMA REBORN
Where we chat with Sydney Film Festival Director Nashen Moodley and fight about our favourite flicks + highlights from the (very) recently launched #SydFilmFest program with resident 2SER cinephile Stephen Hill
66TH #SYDFILMFEST PROGRAM LAUNCHES WITH GENRE, HORROR & COMPETITION HIGHLIGHTS
The truly weird, wacky and wonderful are usually left for those ‘Freak Me Out’ screenings packed by those most dedicated genre fans. Not this year. Launching the 2019 Sydney Film Festival program at Sydney’s Town […]
DUBLIN OLDSCHOOL
An uncommon insight into the less-travelled avenues of Dublin
THE LONELY BATTLE OF THOMAS REID
Calling The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid a documentary wouldn’t quite be fair
FILM FIGHT CLUB S3E10: IRISH FILM FESTIVAL & CINEMA REBORN INTERVIEWS, ENDGAME (SPOILERS) AND THE BATTLE OF WINTERFELL
Our biggest episode of all time
DIRECTOR DAVE TYNAN TALKS DUBLIN OLDSCHOOL
“I love when I’m watching something and I feel like I’ve been put in somewhere, thrown in the deep end. I think you’ll see Dublin in a way you might not have, possibly not even if you’ve visited”
DIRECTOR SEAN MURRAY ON ‘UNQUIET GRAVES’
It’s about reclaiming our cultural memory, it’s about people who come from my community saying we do have a voice and we do have a story to tell about the conflict.”
THE WILD BOYS
Visually captivating and ever in a constant state of flux, The Wild Boys’ thematic bona fides are just trying to keep up
THE NIGHT EATS THE WORLD
If you’re going to make a zombie movie today you really have to clamber above the pack
CRIME WAVE
A comedy of awful errors and even worse people, Crime Wave stumbles sparingly and when it finds it’s feet it lands
