Where we fight about Alfonso Cuaron’s latest screening at the Cine Latino Film Festival, whatever happened in Suspiria and the flicks on show at the Japanese Film Festival including One Cut of the Dead, […]
THE OVERCOAT: A MUSICAL
Aspirations, egos, classes and tones all clash in ‘The Overcoat’ – a title as innocuous as it is resultantly tragic. Set in Saint Petersburg amidst a regimented and immeasurably ordered approach to bureaucracy, Nikolai […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E47: JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL, STAN LEE, SHOPLIFTERS, ROMA, AUSTRALIA SAYS YES & KINO KABARET
Where we chat with Japanese Film Festival Programmer Alison Groves about the latest, greatest Japanese cinema (screening in Sydney from Nov 15-25), discuss the formidable, indelible and much loved legacy of Stan Lee, […]
KINO KABARET 2018
Some collaborations from an amazing, hectic, wonderful weekend of filmmaking at Kino Sydney Kabaret! House of Game of Cards Endless Rainbow Road Arachnophobia Run Underneath A Kabaret Haiku […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E46: RUSSIAN RESURRECTION & WINDA FILM FESTIVAL
Where we chat all things Russian Resurrection Film Festival now in full swing with Festival Director Nicholas Maksymow and delve into the third annual Winda Film Festival with Executive Director Medika Thorpe and […]
THE COACH & RUSSIAN RESURRECTION DIRECTOR NICHOLAS MAKSYMOW ON THE FESTIVAL’S OPENING FILM
Films are rarely as ideally timed as The Coach. Fresh off the Russian team’s stellar rise to the upper echelons of the FIFA World Cup tally board to the thrill and against the expectations of […]
SGT. STUBBY: AN AMERICAN HERO
Australians will likely know the tale of Simpson and his donkey – staples of the World War who famously ferried injured soldiers to safety. Perhaps better known to American audiences is Sgt. Stubby, a terrier […]
JOURNEY’S END
War epics more often than not revolve around the key or decisive battles, the grand, sweeping calls to arms or the impact, whatever it may be, of victory and defeat. Not this one. Centred on […]
TRANSMILITARY
Documentaries can recount, expound or explain so much – but it’s always better when they’re right there. Chronicling the struggles and campaign by members of the transgender community who have enlisted in the US Armed […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E45: JEWISH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, HALLOWEEN & FIRST MAN
Where we wish everyone a Happy Halloween, are not the first men to talk about First Man and chat all things Jewish International Film Festival with Fest Director Eddie Tamir – Wednesdays 7:30PM […]
FIRST MAN
What is this movie about? It’s one of the first questions this author asks themselves whenever commencing a piece, though this one has me a little puzzled. Ostensibly it’s about Neil Armstrong and the years, […]
HALLOWEEN
It would have been so easy to rehash, remake, give us two hours of fan-service or just re-release the original and walk away with a tidy profit. It would also have been a non-event; instead, […]
BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE
Bad Times at the El Royale indeed. The bare premise, one of the only threads laid bare in some very cagey promotion, is one of those ideas with the most abounding potential. A hotel, half […]
UFO
Speculative, notional sci-fi, usually the domain of more abstract offerings, aren’t often melded with kids flicks. Thankfully, there were a few gutsy earthlings willing to give it a go. For UFO is above all a […]
Giving Up The Ghost
Grief takes a lot of forms – rarely is it so animated. Rivka Hartman’s Giving up the Ghost, the first play staged at the new Limelight on Oxford, is tragically all too familiar. Emerging from a […]
STAR
Have you ever noticed how many flicks have a passing, momentary or even not insignificant shot of the starry sky overlaid with dialogue, anticipation, or perhaps nothing at all? Have you taken those scenes for […]
A STAR IS BORN
Most movies are made by movie stars for people who are not movie stars. Most movies. Now the third American remake of a story with more than one iconic interpretation, characters in Bradley Cooper’s version, […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E42: SCIFI FILM FESTIVAL’S SIMON FOSTER & A STAR IS BORN
Where we chat all things SciFi Film Festival with Program Director Simon Foster – at Event Cinemas George Street from Oct 18-21 – and fight about whether A Star Is Born lives up […]
BLIND MAN DEATH STARE – FILMONIK MELBOURNE
Produced as part of Filmonik Kabaret 2018 in Bakehouse Studios, Melbourne
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E41: SF3 SMARTFONE FLICK FEST & WHAT IS DEMOCRACY’S ASTRA TAYLOR
Where we review the best smartphone filmmaking on offer at the SF3 Gala and chat all things What is Democracy with Director Astra Taylor, screening at the Antenna Documentary Film Festival – tune […]
SF3 GALA 2018 SHOWS WHAT YOU CAN DO WITH AN IPHONE OR SAMSUNG
“Smartphone filmmaking has come a long way – thank you for supporting the democratisation of filmmaking” SF3 SmartFone Flick Fest co-founders Angela Blake and Alison Crew welcomed the Festival’s largest-ever crowd to last night’s Gala, […]
A SIMPLE FAVOR
A Simple Favor is a lot of things. It’s a thriller, a mystery and a comedy but, importantly, it is not a parody. Watching this, and you really should stop reading this (spoiler-free) review (but […]
