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THE BEGUILED
There are two films here – you might like one of them, and you may struggle to like both. Sofia Coppola’s The Beguiled, based on the novel by Thomas P. Cullinan, itself adapted by Don […]
WIND RIVER
Taylor Sheridan. Remember that name. The Actor turned Writer and now Director blew away audiences with Sicario in 2015 and only a year later turned over Hell or High Water, the criminally underrated Oscars dark […]
THE FOREST OF LOST SOULS
Let’s go with glass half full. The debut feature by Portugese Director Jose Pedro Lopes, The Forest of Lost Souls, at least for the first Act, is engrossing horror. Set upon dying in a forest […]
IT’S NOT YET DARK
An uplifting story for film-tragics, anyone familiar with the impact of Motor Neuron Disease, or both, It’s Not Yet Dark, unlike the many fictional stories that no doubt inspired its central figure, is all the […]
PHANTOM BOY
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
T2 TRAINSPOTTING
Did you ever want to relive the anarchic, groundbreaking glory of the original Trainspotting? So did its cast. With rare exceptions, a la Martin Scorsese’s Mean Streets, has a film heralding a once largely unknown cast and […]
SILENCE
Silence is about as far as you’ll get from Hollywood fare in a February release from an A-list Director. Martin Scorsese’s long-gestating passion project about two Portuguese Jesuit Priests (Andrew Garfield and Adam Driver) travelling […]
HIDDEN FIGURES
The only flick that managed to knock Rogue One off its perch at the Box Office, it’s not hard to see why. Taking the top spot on opening, Hidden Figures, one of several Best Picture […]
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