It’s becoming increasingly apparent that criminals, assassins or anyone with a ‘particular set of skills’ won’t be enjoying an early retirement. Mrs K (prolific performer Kara Hui) and her husband are forced out of their […]
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DIRECTOR HO YUHANG TALKS ‘MRS K’
‘”It took a while to make, I wanted to work with the lead actress Kara Hui after I made At The End of Daybreak in 2009…. The film is tailor-made for her… she’s […]
SPOOKERS DIRECTOR FLORIAN HABICHT ON THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE’S SCARIEST THEME PARK
“The people that work there, they come up with their own make-up, their own designs, their own creatures, they take real artistic ownership of it, apart from being really scary, you get chased […]
ALICE FOULCHER & GREGORY ERDSTEIN TALK “THAT’S NOT ME”
“To be premiering here at the Sydney Film Festival is really quite surreal… from where we started making this small film with our friends, it’s amazing.” “It’s really heartening for us that we […]
THE PARTY
The colourful personalities in The Party would make for better dinner guests than entertainment. Fusing the bottle society-comedies and Whitehall farces emblematic of Stoppard’s early output to which this effort doesn’t quite hold a candle, […]
UNA
Theatre, however powerful, often struggles to translate to film. Based on the play Blackbird, Una’s eponymous twenty-something (Rooney Mara) finally tracks down the man who abused her as a child (Ben Mendelsohn), too promising he […]
78/52
If someone asks you to name Alfred Hitchcock’s most enduring contribution to cinema, you’re probably going to say something about the shower scene in Psycho. Here’s a whole movie to tell you why. Iconic for […]
BRIGSBY BEAR
Imagine being stuck in a bunker for 25 years and your only point of pop culture reference was a bad TV show. A fish out of water in every sense, James (Saturday Night Live’s Kyle […]
ELLIPSIS
It’s the Sydney Film Festival – you’d expect there to be at least one love-letter to the city. Conceived, rehearsed and shot in less than two weeks, anyone traipsing between Festival venues will recognise any […]
KING OF THE BELGIANS
Fusing the tried-and-trusted tropes of road movies and modern political satire, King of the Belgians offers just that bit more than the average mockumentary. Shocked by a sudden upheaval in his homeland and a declaration […]
MALIGLUTIT
You don’t need a dozen state of the art cameras to produce a good film, you just need a good place to point one. The equipment reportedly covered in sheepskin for the north-Canadian shoot […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 7: SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL CLASHES
Where we fight about our Festival schedules, just which of the 295 films can’t be missed and the quickest route between Dendy Newtown and the State Theatre – join Glen Falkenstein, Chris Evans […]
WE DON’T NEED A MAP
We Don’t Need A Map chronicles Thornton’s exploration, amongst other reflections on Australian society, on that most fairly contentious of symbols the Southern Cross. Himself a subject of controversy for previously positing the perspective, […]
GAME OF DEATH
These are the last people you would want to be stuck in a horror movie with – it makes for a great flick. The appropriately named Game of Death is only as literal as […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 6: SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR NASHEN MOODLEY & WONDER WOMAN REVIEW
Sydney Film Festival Director Nashen Moodley joins us in the studio to talk this year’s premieres and line-up, and we review DC’s Wonder Woman, in cinemas now – catch the Sydney Film Festival […]
WONDER WOMAN
The best DC film in five years, Wonder Woman leaps far, far over what was a very low bar. A slog of an opening filled with trying exposition aside, Wonder Woman would not be the […]
MR BURNS
“A perfectly cromulent play, Mr Burns will embiggen the spirits of even the most casual Simpsons viewers.” Imagine a world where Homer didn’t avert a disaster at the power plant and everyone is plunged […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 5: VICEROY’S HOUSE, NETFLIX, CANNES & SIR ROGER MOORE
Where we talk all things Viceroy’s House (in cinemas now), Cannes controversy and what Netflix means for the future of cinema, the ‘best bad movie’ of the week where one of us gets to […]
PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: DEAD MEN TELL NO TALES
The fifth and probably not final Pirates of the Caribbean film is called Dead Men Tell No Tales. The title, or any other ship-shape proverb, would prove immaterial, but for the fact that the franchise […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 4: KING ARTHUR, JOHN WICK & DAVID LYNCH
Where we talk all things Guy Ritchie and King Arthur: Legend of the Sword, the long-awaited John Wick: Chapter 2, Twin Peaks and the legacy of David Lynch – tune in Wednesdays 730 on 2SER […]
JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 2
There are only so many sequels that live up to the original. There are even fewer that threaten to eclipse it. The successor to the film all your friends told you about and that you […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 3: SFF, AMERICAN ESSENTIALS & 20TH CENTURY WOMEN
Where we talk all things Sydney Film Festival 2017, Wednesday’s program launch and why you should be excited, the American Essentials Film Festival which opened this week with 20th Century Women + David Lynch and […]
