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
Category: Festivals
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
FREE SOLO
Very few films are ground-breaking in a visual, technical or narrative sense. To manage all three is a rare achievement, though not nearly so remarkable as Alex Honnold
WILD NIGHTS WITH EMILY
Recounting lesser-known events and their reasons for obscurity in the life of Massachusetts poet Emily Dickinson (Molly Shannon), Wild Nights With Emily takes a few less than conventional approaches
WINDA SETS SIGHTS ON 2019
“It is an exciting time in Indigenous filmmaking as we see a range of new film opportunities growing around the world for Indigenous filmmakers and we can’t wait to bring some of the films to […]
BODIED
This author has only ever seen one film twice during a single Festival run. That was Bodied. Bodied will very likely will be the standard-bearer and standard for its particular subgenre of satire and comedy that […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E52: NETFLIX; THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS, HOLD THE DARK, THE SINNER, CAM, SHIRKERS, THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND & MOWGLI
Where in our very last show for 2018 we fight about our favourite and least favourite Netflicks – tune in Wednesdays 7:30PM from 2019 on 2SER, subscribe on iTunes & Spotify and have […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E51: CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME? & CREED II
Where we fight about the best Melissa McCarthy film since Spy and Rocky 4 x 2 ie Rocky 8 ie Creed II, in cinemas now + discuss the legacies of Nicholas Roeg and […]
CAM
Psychological thrillers are best when they’re relatable and (hopefully) original. ‘Cam’ ticks both boxes with camgirl Alice (Madeline Brewer from “The Handmaid’s Tale”) aka Lola facing the existential dread of being locked out of her […]
CAN YOU EVER FORGIVE ME?
For such a well known actress, Melissa McCarthy is strangely underrated. Flexing her considerable comic and dramatic chops as early as those first seasons of Gilmore Girls to later find broader fame with Bridesmaids and […]
ROMA
Roma deserves to be seen on the big screen – do yourself a favour and see it before it hits Netflix, and then see it again. The streaming platform have done well with this acquisition […]
PARACINEMA FEST: CLIMBING OVER BOUNDARIES
“Paracinema as a style of and approach to cinema has always been about climbing over boundaries to see what is on the other side, always obsessed with ferreting out oddities and unique films that show […]
ANNA AND THE APOCALYPSE
A contender for one of the worst films of the year, look elsewhere than Anna and the Apocalypse. A small Welsh town, an encroaching Christmas; carols, families, seasons greetings and a horde of the undead. […]
