Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Giving new meaning to the term finger food, Lucy Rose’s THE LAMB is a delicious, delectable and demented story of cannibalism, carnality and coming of age.
A horror story, a love story, a fork tale with knives out, THE LAMB …
The use of The Turtles’ track, You Showed Me, is telling. A splendid choice on behalf of the film maker, the song’s lyrics underscore the narrative:
You showed me how to do, Exactly what you do
How I fell in …
Most good movies deal with the problem of coming to terms with life.
WE LIVE IN TIME is a very good movie in that it deals with the problem of coming to terms with life and death.
What elevates WE …
Arguably Audiard’s best film since The Prophet, EMILIA PEREZ is La La Land meets Narc by way of The Crying Game. EMILIA PEREZ is, if nothing else, brash, brazen, bruising and audacious.
Jacques Audiard utilises every tool in his cinematic …
Don’t be afraid of the dark, it’s part of the maker’s mark.
GHOST QUARTET is an exquisite song cycle, tunes, lyrics and text by Dave Malloy that weaves a certain magic through music: keyboard, strings and percussion and the human …
A clever coffin of dead conventions, CONCLAVE is Julius Caesar in cardinal robes rather than togas, centring on the political power play to become pontiff, a necessity, it seems, that is the mother of convention.
A thrilling film nevertheless, CONCLAVE …
Gumshoes around the gum trees, bush noir, whatever the catch phrase for outback or rural Australia crime fiction, carve a new name into the bark , Ronni Salt, with the debut novel, GUNNAWAH.
It’s 1974 in the Riverina and there’s …
No bats, yet a scene with hanging macs gives an image hint, a cinematic simile, in Robert Eggers visually arresting version of the vampire classic, NOSFERATU.
With a creepy cadaverous count, Orlok, who goes for the aorta rather than the …
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT is a delight. Not in some frivolous, funny way, but in a deep and meaningful way, not behoven to heaviness but to the light in the darkness of the lives, the textures and contrasts of …
Allusions to Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, James Joyce’s The Dead and the John Huston film it inspired, the inimitable silent movie star, Buster Keaton, and the iconic American artist, Edward Hopper, are all part of the mosaic that informs …