It’s one thing to be knocked off your feet by a top horror flick, it’s another entirely to find out they shot it down the road from your childhood home. Set in a quiet suburban […]
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ALICE FOULCHER & GREGORY ERDSTEIN TALK “THAT’S NOT ME”
“To be premiering here at the Sydney Film Festival is really quite surreal… from where we started making this small film with our friends, it’s amazing.” “It’s really heartening for us that we […]
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 7: SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL CLASHES
Where we fight about our Festival schedules, just which of the 295 films can’t be missed and the quickest route between Dendy Newtown and the State Theatre – join Glen Falkenstein, Chris Evans […]
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, […]
GAME OF DEATH
These are the last people you would want to be stuck in a horror movie with – it makes for a great flick. The appropriately named Game of Death is only as literal as […]
LOVE & FRIENDSHIP
Austen-lite – the author’s trademark disdain for polite society is on full display in Whit Stillman’s condensed, easily consumable ode to the Bath legend’s inestimable literary canon. Any fan of Austen or Wilde alike will […]
LIFE, ANIMATED
Do you like Disney? Of course you do. Not as much as this guy. Diagnosed with autism early in life, Owen Suskind’s parents weren’t sure when or how they would be able to communicate again. […]
SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL CLOSING NIGHT GALA AND AWARDS
The 63rd annual Sydney Film Festival concluded tonight, with the 2016 Sydney Film Prize going to Kleber Mendonca Filho for Brazilian drama ‘Aquarius,’ the Jury favourite out of the 12 entries in this year’s official […]
SING STREET
“That’s a bold move. Let’s do it.” A jukebox of 80s classics with its own original songs, Sing Street aims to be a crowd-pleaser, and please it does. Theorising that forming a band is the best […]
CAPTAIN FANTASTIC
“Should I make my way out of home into the woods… too hot for the band with a desperate desire for change.” The hark-back to lyrics from ‘Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy,’ the […]
THE RED TURTLE
Strong and silent in equal measure, Studio Ghibli/Wild Bunch’s co-production The Red Turtle, notably devoid of dialogue, masterfully fills its moments with movement and an eclectic mix of sound you wouldn’t normally hear, setting a […]
DESTINATION ARNOLD
Many films have chronicled the bodybuilding champs and tournaments, most famously in Arnold Schwarzenegger’s ’77 hit Pumping Iron. Relocating the action to Redfern and Newtown, Destination Arnold centres on Tash and Kylene, two local Indigenous […]
KYLENE ANDERSON TALKS ‘DESTINATION ARNOLD’
“I started because I wanted to take it to the extreme and see how far I could go.” Competing in the Arnolds – an amateur bodybuilding competition recently held in Australia for the […]
MOM AND ME
A tale as old as time – filmmaker Ken Wardrop has put the relationships between mothers and sons on full display in this contemplative and touching documentary. Setting the film in all places in what […]
GIRL ASLEEP
A film that will inevitably be compared to the collective works of Lewis Carroll and Wes Anderson, this accomplishedly charming and distinctly-styled Australian comedy recommends itself all on its own. Greta (Bethany Whitmore in a […]
DIRECTOR ROSEMARY MYERS AND PRODUCER JO DYER ON ‘GIRL ASLEEP’
Australian comedy ‘Girl Asleep’ has its Sydney premiere at the Sydney Film Festival today. It’s a small budget, locally produced film that has gone on to tour the world and screen at the Berlinale and […]
DIRECTOR PADDY BREATHNACH TALKS ‘VIVA’
Filmmaker Paddy Breathnach is in town for the Australian premiere of his new film ‘Viva.’ An Irish production set amidst the drag scene in Cuba, Paddy sat down to talk about ‘Viva’ which is one […]
FERDIA WALSH-PEELO AND MARK MCKENNA TALK ‘SING STREET’
Director John Carney’s new feature has its Australian premiere at the Sydney Film Festival this weekend. Chronicling a band of Irish teenagers with their own eclectic take on the greatest hits of the […]
PERSONAL SHOPPER
Kristen Stewart’s come a long way since Twilight. It’s hard to command a thriller, let alone a psychological horror that rises and falls on its central performance, in this case that of personal shopper Maureen […]
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