Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Oscar nominated for Best Feature Documentary, FACES PLACES is a road trip of two minds, Agnès Varda, whose unique cinematic vision since the 1950s has earned her a loyal following of enthusiastic cinephiles around the world, and the iconic …
Photos by David Charles Collins.
Mime, dance, song and stand-up comedy make up MY URRWAI a soulful, mostly sunny sixty minute solo show by Torres Strait Islander dynamo, Ghenoa Gela.
In wordless depiction that becomes clear by repetition and the …
WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE CASABLANCA: THE LIFE,LEGEND AND AFTERLIFE OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST BELOVED MOVIE
Kenneth Tynan may have given the film, Casablanca, its most backhanded compliment when he called it “a masterpiece of light entertainment”.…
Production photos by Prudence Upton.
It’s not for everyone, but maybe it should be. This chow is a symphony of sophisticated naivety, slapstick with a bitch slap, a carnival of two, the accomplished performance artists, Jo-Ann Lancaster and Simon Yates…
The exotic aquatic, THE SHAPE OF WATER is a superlative cinema experience, an adult fairy tale that is breathtakingly beautiful, both heartbreakingly and heart warmingly hewn, a beauty and the beast story of wit, wisdom and wonder.…
Devoured in one sitting is an exaggeration but HANGMAN is certainly an accomplished and compulsive thriller that kept my appetite to return to its banquet of kidnapping and bloody murder.
Richer than Reacher, HANGMAN’s protagonist is a literary kin to …
The bar is raised mighty high for the first official film release of the year, THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI.
If you see any film better, 2018 will be a bumper year. If you see any film its equal, it …
JUST TO BE SURE seems to be the perfect title for a film about a chap who mine sweeps for a living.
Erwan is a bomb disposal expert, a widower with a social worker daughter about to become a single …
Winner of this year’s Pulitzer Prize for Literature, Colson Whitehead‘s THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD is a gruelling reminder of the indignities, the ignominious inhumanity heaped upon African slaves that fed the cotton industry – the money making monster – …
“Fame is the spur”, wrote blind poet John Milton, “…to scorn delight and live laborious days.” These days, fame is a burr, a pricking, prickling thing, an aspirational Aspergers as inspirational as intestinal gas.
BIG IN JAPAN is a competent …