PJ Harvey wasn’t up for recording a regular album, so she took it on the road
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.
CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ is something you might never have heard if not for Tennessee Williams. A southernism if ever there was one, one of the titan writer’s most beloved plays is replete […]
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
AMERICAN PSYCHO THE MUSICAL
American Psycho: The Musical has a fundamental, irreconcilable problem; Patrick Bateman would love it
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 […]
ROCKETMAN – THOUGHTS FROM A MOST DEDICATED FAN
Rocketman is not a movie, at least not to me
ALADDIN
They blue it. No, not really, but Disney are back to cash in on our childhoods. Set, of course, in Agrabah, a Kingdom earnestly nondescript so as not to situate us in anything even remotely […]
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
JOHN WICK: CHAPTER 3 – PARABELLUM
These films are better the second you realise they don’t take place on earth. Yes it looks like our world but New York et al is merely the stage not the setting on which this […]
GAME OF THRONES SERIES FINALE
Spoiler warning: This post contains spoilers for Game of Thrones and the series finale “I imagined a mountain of swords too high to climb, so many fallen enemies who could only see the soles of […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S3E12: JOHN WICK 3, GAME OF THRONES S8E5 & DETECTIVE PIKACHU
Where we fight about what is all fight, the fight to end all fights and our favourite fighting Pokemon (Machamp, obviously)
GAME OF THRONES: THE BELLS
It’s very easy to tell the difference between good Game of Thrones and bad Game of Thrones
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
