Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Sure to give book lovers fever, DEAR FAHRENHEIT 451: A Librarian’s Love Letters and Break Up Notes to Her Books by Annie Spence fuels a burning desire to revisit or in some cases kindle the discovery of books gathering dust …
A kind of bookend movie to the terrific Charlize Theron led TULLY now showing in cinemas, AURORE tells the story of a woman, Aurore, separated from her husband who has just lost her job and been told that she is …
An intelligent zombie film with brains and heart, CARGO is a heart of darkness excursion up a river and into the interior of an apocalyptic Australia..
In a desperate bid to outrun a violent pandemic, Andy and Kay have holed …
Australian cinema audiences see essentially American product, predominantly block busters, certainly studio films, with a growing smattering of independent features.
Many of those pictures fall far below and behind what I would call essential viewing unless you are a teen …
“I haven’t had my whole treated in a long time” says Marlo Monroe, in a double entendre that resonates throughout TULLY, the Diablo Cody written and Jason Reitman directed film that plays like a Millennial Mary Poppins.
Movie begins with …
Like a gorgeous short story from Grace Paley or Raymond Carver, OUTSIDE IN is a slice of lifer that resonates with real situations, real feelings, and real people.
“We are all cracked vessels” says secondary school teacher of English, Carol …
“So all this terror has been for absolutely nothing…. Four dead fellas, two dead cats ..me hairstyle ruined, me sister broken-hearted”. So laments Davey, one of the dipshit characters on display in Martin McDonagh’s THE LIEUTENANT OF INISHMORE.
A …
Like some out of hell spawn of Psycho and The Snake Pit, Steven Soderbergh’s UNSANE taps into personal paranoia, corporate conspiracy theory and the insidious stalker scenario.
Most of us would have experienced a moment of doubting our own sanity …
A winter of discontent in a montage of snow covered trees.
So opens LOVELESS, Andrey Zvyagintsev’s latest film to skew contemporary Russian society.
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Stark bark and branches outside are a tropical paradise in contrast to the hateful home and …
Make no mistake, GURRUMUL is a great Australian film about a great Australian.
Culturally and musically invigorating, it is both engagingly enlightening and thrillingly entertaining.
An enormous amount of research – relevant and reverent – has gone into the development …