Tense throughout, two shocking moments help elevate this introspective, surprisingly humourful drama screening as part of this year’s Sydney Film Festival. Continuing in the best tradition of the Festival’s showcase of tense South African dramas […]
GOLDSTONE
“This world wasn’t made for you – you were made for it.” This remarkably harsh platitude encapsulates Ivan Sen’s Goldstone, the Australian Director’s fourth feature and spiritual successor to 2013’s Mystery Road, too enveloping on the […]
SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL OPENS WITH GOLDSTONE WORLD PREMIERE
“The worlds that you see tonight are smashing together like they have in this country for quite a while.” Ivan Sen addressed a sold-out crowd tonight at Sydney’s State Theatre during the opening of the […]
SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR NASHEN MOODLEY ON WHAT TO LOOK FORWARD TO THIS YEAR
See above for full audio, excerpts below On the Festival theme: ‘Change Your View, Change Your World’ “It’s looking at the ability of cinema to alter your perspective. In some ways this can […]
‘THE LITERATI’ REVIEW – IN THE STYLE OF THE PLAY
I enjoyed The Literati so much, I thought I’d do something a little different and write up a review in the imaginative style of the play. For my more, traditional review, see here […]
THE LITERATI
Exceptionally clever and outrageously fun, The Literati is well worth your time. A Griffin Theatre Company production co-produced with Bell Shakespeare – Australian playwright Justin Fleming has hilariously adapted Moliere with more contemporary prose in a […]
SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES NEW SCREENINGS DIRECT FROM CANNES
Kicking off on Wednesday 8th June, the 63rd Sydney Film Festival has announced eight new films and one restoration, arriving directly from Cannes, to screen as part of this year’s program. “The Festival is very pleased […]
THE ILLUSIONIST: THE BEST THAT MOVIE MAGIC HAS TO OFFER
As Now You See Me 2 tricks its way into cinemas this week, FilmInk pays tribute to 2006’s The Illusionist, an under-celebrated magic movie that plays out like a true cinematic sleight of hand. It […]
GAME OF THRONES SEASON 6 FIRST HALF RE-CAP – ONE DOOR CLOSES
Spoiler alert: This article discusses plot points from George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels to date as well as the TV series episodes to date including season 6 […]
XANADU THE MUSICAL
Larger and louder than the Potts Point stage would seemingly allow, Xanadu packs a lot for both devotees of the original film and those who still can’t believe it was made. At once an adaptation […]
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
Staging this play has always presented a challenge, to which Sport for Jove has risen, admirably. Neither obsequiously purist nor deferentially modern: the production is set in what is ostensibly 1920s era filmmaking, a witness […]
ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
A film all about time could have used it better. Canberra-native Mia Wasikowska reprises the title role that made her a star in this loose adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s sequel to Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland […]
RAKE – SEASON 4 Premiere
Spoiler alert: This piece discusses major Rake plot points up until the end of Season 3 Everyone’s favourite (or least favourite) barrister is back in town. The massive in-joke for both Sydney’s theatre scene and […]
SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL 2016 – SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO
The greatest hits of Martin Scorsese. Daniel Radcliffe as a farting corpse. An adaptation of a little-known Jane Austen novella where Kate Beckinsale plays “the Walter White of polite British society.” A Polish-romance-comedy-horror-vampire-mermaid-musical. These are […]
ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTERN ARE DEAD
Arguably Tom Stoppard’s most famous play, this intimate staging of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead provides just the right setting for the author’s treatise on mortality, conventional logic and theatre itself. As much a collection of philosophical […]
SYDNEY’S SECOND ANNUAL IRISH FILM FESTIVAL WRAPS WITH ‘LOST IN THE LIVING’
Sydney’s second annual Irish Film Festival concluded at The Chauvel Cinema in Sydney’s Paddington following four days of screenings, closing with the Australian premiere of Lost In The Living, which chronicles an Irish musician’s (Tadgh […]
EUROVISION ’16
Note: contains spoilers Australia was jolted awake this morning by the Eurovision grand finale; and after that vote count, there’s no way we’re going back to sleep. For the first time ever, the contest crossed […]
CIVIL WAR VS DAWN OF JUSTICE
Did you ever watch a film and think, I’ve seen that before? This year has already seen two separate treatments of the famed Florence Foster Jenkins, with announcements only in the past weeks that more […]
EUROVISION 2016 – GET EXCITED AUSTRALIA
It’s another year of Eurovision – ballads, strobe lights, the tackiest hosts Europe could muster and at least one act denied permission to perform naked with wolves. (spoilers ahead) After Guy Sebastian placed fifth with […]
WE WILL ROCK YOU
The title tells you everything you need to know. We Will Rock You weaves Queen’s greatest hits and thankfully, for both the fans and the uninitiated, many of their lesser known numbers and melodies into […]
THE CHERRY ORCHARD
Chekhov’s tragicomic classic gets a more modern treatment with the New Theatre’s production of The Cherry Orchard, focused much more on its tragic dimensions than its inbuilt lighter fare. Revolving around an aristocratic family returning […]
BELLEVILLE
Emotions. All of the emotions. Belleville parks its elephant in the room from the very beginning, making it evident that at some point, probably towards the end, something very, very bad is going to happen. […]
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