A boy. A cop. A reporter. A crime. A supervillain, and a phantom. Thankfully, there’s nothing too regular about French animation Phantom Boy, a pleasing fantasy feature for kids everywhere. Leo (Alex Gagnol), confined to […]
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THAT’S NOT ME
Sometimes all you need is a good lead and a good idea. Wannabee actress Polly Cuthbert (Alice Foulcher) has to deal with the newfound on-screen success of her identical twin sister (also, Alice Foulcher). Constantly […]
MRS K
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“THIS FILM HAS CHANGED LIVES ALREADY” – SANCTUARY SCREENS AT IRISH FILM FESTIVAL
“To actually have a film that manages to change the law, change people’s lives, there’s nothing better than that.” Director Len Collin flew out from Ireland to attend a special screening of his film Sanctuary, […]
“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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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