Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Hot on the heels of CORSAGE, Vicky Krieps crops up in another kick arse characterisation in MORE THAN EVER, a flagship feature in this year’s Europa! Europa! Festival of film.
Krieps plays Hélène, a thirty-something grappling with a rare …
“The lion doesn’t lose sleep over the opinion of sheep”, scolds Empress Elisabeth of Austria to her husband, Franz Joseph in Marie Kreutzer’s deliriously delicious, anarchic and anachronistic CORSAGE.
It’s a telling and acerbic remark teetering on rebuke. And …
There’s a lot to unpack in THE SON.
Adapted by Academy Award winners Florian Zeller and Christopher Hampton from Zeller’s acclaimed stage play, THE SON sees aspiring politician Peter’s busy life with new partner Beth and their baby thrown into …
If you have an appetite for the grotesque, try THE WHALE by Samuel D. Hunter, a tale of morbid obesity and Morrison style evangelism.
In a squalid apartment in Idaho with drab dabs of nautical décor – a fish tank, …
Better to ask for forgiveness than seek permission.
That’s a mantra running through Karen Comer’s verisimilitude verse novel, GRACE NOTES.
Grace, an aspiring violinist, with virtuoso lineage from her paternal grandmother, has parents who have confused the word ‘possibilities’ with …
Tár is a star.
A dark one.
Lydia Tár is a star conductor, an American living and working in Berlin, domiciled with partner, first violinist, Sharon, and their adopted daughter, Petra.
Brilliant at the baton, a perfectionist on the …
The first great Australian film of the year, YOU CAN GO NOW is truth in invitation, a cheeky play on words and sentiment.
Appropriately premiering on January 26, with many of the Australian population enjoying a public holiday, YOU CAN …
In a desperate attempt to make Baz Luhrman look white bread and the scion of subtlety and the viscount of vanilla, director Damien Chazelle has concocted a bloody mess of a picture.
BABYLON plays like a bibulous and bilious biopic …
I fear for any book that fails to interest one the way that I FEAR MY PAIN INTERESTS YOU does.
Stephanie LaCava’s short sharp novel grabs your interest from the title alone, then keeps it on the incline with the …
Captain Courageous is young Max’s favourite TV character, for whom – according to the theme song – nothing is too rough or too tough. Max can’t wait to get home after school and enjoy the show.
However, much to Max’s …