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 […]
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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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 2: SF3 SMARTFONE FLICK FEST, JONATHAN DEMME, STAR WARS SPIN-OFFS & COLOSSAL
For Film Fight Club Round #2 we talk to SF3 SmartFone Flick Fest co-Director Angela Blake, all things Jonathan Demme, Star Wars spin-offs and Colossal – in cinemas now. Tune in to 2SER 107.3 on […]
BERLIN SYNDROME
Every traveller’s worst nightmare – Aussie backpacker Clare (Teresa Palmer), following a brief fling with Berlin local Andi (Max Riemelt) and visit to his home discovers that he has no intention of letting her leave. […]
TWICE SHY CLOSES SYDNEY LEG OF IRISH FILM FESTIVAL, LOOKS NATIONAL
The Festival closed in Sydney with the announcement of the Breakthrough Award and now heads to Melbourne and Perth. “It’s important for Australians to know and to see stories coming out of Ireland but it’s […]
YOUNG AT HEART FILM FESTIVAL TO TOUR NATIONALLY
“What we tried to do is find films that are ideally suited to the seniors audience, films that are entertaining, where you can learn something, where you can reminisce and where you can embrace yourself […]
“A WINDOW ON CONTEMPORARY IRELAND” – IRISH FILM FESTIVAL KICKS OFF IN SYDNEY
“It’s great to see confident young people coming out with talent and making films that are as good as any that are coming from anywhere around the world.” Irish Film Festival Director Dr Enda Murray […]
BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
This review, or at least the first part of it, is best accompanied by the original Beauty and the Beast’s classic hit ‘Be Our Guest,’ though The Simpson’s similarly classic ‘See My Vest’ will do […]
IRISH FILM FESTIVAL SET FOR ITS BIGGEST YEAR YET
“People are looking for a window on contemporary Ireland and that’s our goal. All of these films, 8 features, they’ve all been made in the last 12 months, so that’s certainly what they’re going to […]
LIFE
It’s very rare that a movie benefits from being both so incredibly smart and so incredibly stupid. But that’s Life. Set aboard the International Space Station where an ill-defined extra-terrestrial proceeds to terrify Ryan Reynolds, […]
SHORT+SWEET FILM FESTIVAL GALA FINAL
The inaugural Short + Sweet Film Festival Gala screened at Dendy Cinemas Newtown on Sunday night, will all but two of the Festival’s twelve finalists hailing from independent Australian filmmakers. “The 12 short films we […]
THE LEGO BATMAN MOVIE
This is the best Batman movie in five years – during which time there’s been almost as many flicks featuring the caped crusader as there have been Best Picture winners. The LEGO Batman Movie […]
A CURE FOR WELLNESS
There’s a very particular type of person who will be willing to sit through let alone relish Gore Verbinski’s two-and-a-half hour ode to gothic fiction’s greatest hits. Let’s see if that’s you: You saw the […]
GET OUT
It would be remiss to describe Get Out as simply a horror-comedy, though an even greater disservice to the film to betray the plot in any significant detail. The directorial debut from Jordan Peele, Get Out’s […]
KONG: SKULL ISLAND
Someone gave Samuel L. Jackson and John C. Reilly a very different script. Anyone going to see Kong: Skull Island would likely have one of two expectations. One, they’re in for a big, explosiony, cgi-filled […]
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