Before anyone says anything – we’re already looking at screens all day. Taking place entirely on Skype, Messenger, Chat, Youtube, YouCast and anything that shows up on your laptop, a worried father (John Cho) searches […]
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THREE IDENTICAL STRANGERS
As curious as it is frequently infuriating, Three Identical Strangers takes its fascinating subject(s) to altogether captivating places. An incredulous true story that you could dismiss had it turned up in the fiction shelves, three […]
JIRGA
Defying stylistic convention as that which would typically be associated with parts of rural Afghanistan, Jirga is a tricky one. Returning to Afghanistan and the site of a fateful raid following a three-year absence, a […]
TOWER. A BRIGHT DAY
Sometimes, subtlety doesn’t actually help. A family reunion in a small Polish village isn’t your usual setting for the surreal or supernatural. When a long-since absent sister returns to her siblings and ailing mother, things […]
THE MAN WHO KILLED DON QUIXOTE
It took decades to get this film to theatres; the finished product, as much as Terry Gilliam’s perseverance, is as strong a reminder as any of why we watch movies, and always will. Ad-man and […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E23: SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL
Where we fight about everything we’ve seen at the Sydney Film Festival and everything you should see with the Film in Revolt crew – Wednesdays 7:30PM on 2SER and Sundays 12-1PM during the […]
THE SEEN AND UNSEEN
Most stories are better without a sledgehammer to drive it’s point home, though subtlety doesn’t always help. Set in rural Bali, 10 year-old Tantri, contending with her gravely ill twin brother who is no longer […]
DON’T WORRY HE WON’T GET FAR ON FOOT
The presence of the ever-talented Joaquin Phoenix is enough to recommend a movie, even this one. Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far on Foot, Gus Van Sant’s biopic of Oregon cartoonist John Callahan who passed […]
NUMBER 37
There have been a lot of adaptations, homages or films otherwise inspired by Rear Window; Number 37 might just be the best. Confined to a wheelchair and an upper-level apartment of a Cape Town township […]
UPGRADE
Upgrade is a B-Movie and when the audience and the film itself embraces this, everyone is going to have a lot of fun. Set in semi-futuristic USA, Grey (Logan Marshall-Green), paralysed following a freak attack […]
GHOST STORIES
Have you ever wanted to be scared by one of those old spook houses before they went out of fashion? Ghost Stories will remind you of one of the rides you went on at Luna […]
SUPPORT THE GIRLS
Us flies chose well to spend a day on the wall with this crew. Following a group of friends, co-workers and new recruits thrown into the deep-end of a highway-side “sports bar with curves,” an […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E18: SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL PROGRAM LAUNCH
Where we chat to Sydney Film Festival Director Nashen Moodley fresh off the program launch about this year’s line-up, fight about our favourite picks and what you should go see and chat to […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 9: SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL WRAP
Where we fight about our Sydney Film Festival favourites and what to look out for in cinemas – join Glen Falkenstein, Virat Nehru and Chris Evans Wednesday Nights at 7:30 on 2SER 107.3 […]
MCLAREN
Only the second and last driver to win a Formula One Grand Prix with his name on the bonnet, Bruce McLaren’s formidable legacy gets a fairly laudable treatment in Roger Donaldson’s new documentary. No stranger […]
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 […]
PACMEN
No one wants to see how the sausage is made. You might however want to see this film. The Republican primary season of 2016 will inevitably be the subject of countless films and documentaries. One […]
OTHERLIFE
Fixing on a great idea or something you haven’t seen before isn’t easy – watching any flick is that much better when you know the filmmakers have floored their premise. Home-grown Aussie sci-fi OtherLife asks […]
THE FARTHEST
Imagine knowing that the first time extra-terrestrial life hears a human voice, it might be yours. Or better yet, Chuck Berry. Charting the Voyager project from the get-go to, as Star Trek fans can attest […]
LUKE WALKER ON PACMEN AND BEING IN THE RIGHT PLACE
“They not only persuaded him (Ben Carson) to run but they get him to number one in the polls and when that happened, two weeks after I got there Carson had got to […]
MY NAME IS EMILY
Uplifting if wildly uneven, My Name is Emily will leave you with a smile on your face and no doubt scratching your head. Emily (Harry Potter’s Evanna Lynch) has had a rough time. Her […]
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 […]
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