Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Refreshingly, it’s not murderous sharks or aquatic aliens that cause the tensions and drama in THE DIVE, a fine little thriller that in the golden era of the double feature would have been the B film, and one that is …
I’ve been to a marvellous movie.
It’s called MAD ABOUT THE BOY made by Barnaby Thompson and is about Noel Coward.
I’m mad about the movie because it’s entertaining, informative and enthralling.
Narrated by Alan Cummings with diary extracts voiced …
An opening shot of a communal shower locker room gives the assumption of a female penitentiary in THE ORIGIN OF EVIL.
Turns out it is the changing room of a fish processing plant which is run like a prison with …
May the horse be with you.
The healing force of the horse is forelock and centre in Award-winning filmmaker Nick Barkla’s timely and moving documentary THE HEALING.
THE HEALING explores a unique life-saving veteran welfare program that brings traumatised …
Martin Scorsese’s latest epic, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON begins with a peace pipe being buried.
Symbolically unsubtle, but then there is nothing subtle about genocide.
KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON is an historical tale yet very much a modern …
Call it a Copera.
So rich, so bold, so full blooded, THE LAST NIGHT OF AMORE is like a cop drama turned opera.
With its majestic aerial sweep of Milan at night, bold red titles and Morricone-ish score that begins …
Revenge, retribution, catharsis, carnage, karma, justice, a life for a life. Thorny topics for civilised humans when the uncivil visits.
What could have been a singularly sordid revenge story, THE COST emerges as a philosophical contemplation of moral imperatives and …
With no Knives Out franchise film on view, it is up to The Wizard Ozon to provide us with a nifty souffle, a bon bon bon, a period murder mystery cum courtroom drama, The Crime is Mine, starring French …
LIE WITH ME is a deceptively sweet movie, a chocolate coated knotty nougat of nostalgia.
An adaptation of French author Philippe Besson’s worldwide bestselling queer coming of age novel of the same name, LIE WITH ME is a memory play …
The huge global demand for Irish storytelling, from The Banshees of Inisherin to Derry Girls, demonstrates the power of local stories with universal themes.
With 16 films, including 15 Australian Premieres, the 9th Irish Film Festival Australia showcases engaging dramas, …