Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
And then, an hour in, John Wood is introduced as a policeman and GODLESS: THE EASTFIELD EXORCISM turns into an extremely bad episode of Blue Heelers.
In the interminable sixty minutes preceding, GODLESS: THE EASTFIELD EXORCISM we meet Lara, who …
How often have we speculated about people we’ve observed in a restaurant or a pub? Who’s partnered with who, what is their story?
This is exactly how PAST LIVES begins, a frame shot of three people, a Korean man, a …
In his short story I So Do Not Want To Be Having This Conversation, Frank Moorhouse’s first person narrator says “I’m on the side of Lytton Strachey when he remarked that good biography should pass lightly over those performances and …
Ego is not a dirty word sang Skyhooks. It could well be the anthem of Michael Gudinski.
Michael Gudinski was a music man, impresario, and natural born hustler. What chutzpah he had! He repeatedly risked everything for his one obsession: …
The Korean Film Festival in Australia (KOFFIA) makes a triumphant return in 2023, showcasing an impressive line-up of highly acclaimed and captivating Korean films across genres, showcasing the diversity of Korean film making.
Opening night film is The Night Owl…
A terrible beauty, GODLAND is an epic story of a picture taking priest, a proselytising photographer, sent from Denmark to a wild Icelandic island to build a church and establish a congregation.
The priest, Lucas, chooses to enter his …
Wow! No wonder Jessica Zhan Mei Yu’s debut novel, BUT THE GIRL, has been picked up by a number of international publishers. It really is a must read.
BUT THE GIRL is everything one would wish in a novel – …
We get an eye full of the Eiffel in the first frame of OTHER PEOPLE’S CHILDREN, Rebecca Zlotowski’s Zeitgeist on the zygote.
It’s a picture postcard Paris shot infused with joy. It’s somewhat of a misdirect.
Then we meet Rachel. …
Superior B grade more satisfying than the latest Indiana Jones disappointment, SISU sizzles up a spectacular slaughter of Nazis in gleeful retribution.
It’s The Good the Bad and the Ugly meets Inglourious Basterds, with a dash of Mad Max, as …
Not half bad, which is not to say only half good, TALK TO ME is a superior supernatural spinner blessed with a trio of stellar lead performances.
TALK TO ME has something of the post Poe, as, in his The …