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 […]
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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 […]
DIRECTOR HO YUHANG TALKS ‘MRS K’
‘”It took a while to make, I wanted to work with the lead actress Kara Hui after I made At The End of Daybreak in 2009…. The film is tailor-made for her… she’s […]
SPOOKERS DIRECTOR FLORIAN HABICHT ON THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE’S SCARIEST THEME PARK
“The people that work there, they come up with their own make-up, their own designs, their own creatures, they take real artistic ownership of it, apart from being really scary, you get chased […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
FILM FIGHT CLUB EPISODE 3: SFF, AMERICAN ESSENTIALS & 20TH CENTURY WOMEN
Where we talk all things Sydney Film Festival 2017, Wednesday’s program launch and why you should be excited, the American Essentials Film Festival which opened this week with 20th Century Women + David Lynch and […]
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 […]
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