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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB S2E22: SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL CLASHES & SOLO
Where we fight about our Sydney Film Festival schedules and what you just can’t miss, plus our extended review of Solo’s so long-awaited solo outing – Wednesdays 7:30PM on 2SER + Sundays June […]
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 S2E21: SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL DIRECTOR NASHEN MOODLEY
Where we put aside our fighting to chat all things Sydney Film Festival 2018 with Festival Director Nashen Moodley, the creative directions for this year’s program and what you can’t miss – Wednesdays […]
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 […]
PROGRAM LAUNCH: 25 FLICKS TO CATCH AT THE SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL
If finding the quickest routes from Dendy Newtown to Circular Quay to the State Theatre is a challenge you face yearly, then you’re as excited for the Sydney Film Festival as the hundreds of eager […]
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