Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Peeling potatoes and vacuuming carpets are elevated from the mundane into perfect acts of domestic glue in the gorgeously affecting THE QUIET GIRL.
Set in Ireland in the early 1980s the quiet girl of the title is Cáit, sent …
Monique Kalmar and Max Brown to star in directorial feature film debut from HERE OUT WEST writer Bina Bhattacharya
Following the successful cinematic release and television screening of HERE OUT WEST on ABC TV, writer Bina Bhattacharya, whose chapter The …
The lunatics are running the asylum seeker. Well, driving the asylum seeker, actually.
Brokenhearted mother and broken legged father are journeying with their two sons across a barren expanse of Iran to deliver the eldest boy an escape route through …
A witty, eloquent script in the hands of an elegant cast under an assured director adds up to a satisfying cinema experience.
Such is the case of GOOD LUCK TO YOU, LEO GRANDE, written by Katy Brand, starring Emma Thompson …
The north coast of New South Wales is as much a character as the humans that inhabit its land and seascape in the little gem that is BOSCH & ROCKIT.
Set in the late 1990s, before the era of smartphones …
Is a live autopsy a contradiction in terms?
Whether yea or nay, it is a set piece in David Cronenberg’s latest body horror film, CRIMES OF THE FUTURE.
The film begins with a startling image. A little boys fossicks on …
Liliana Padilla’s play, HOW TO DEFEND YOURSELF begins with a brisk banter between Mexican spitfire, Diana, and her college campus colleague, the more demure, Mojdeh. These girls have signed up for a self defence course following a sexual assault on …
The Korean Film Festival in Australia (KOFFIA) returns into cinemas in 2022 with a fabulous line-up of excellent new Korean films, spanning across a range of exciting genres.
The Festival program features 13 of the finest films from Korea’s internationally …
There’s a marvelous typo towards the end of ON JAVA ROAD, the sleekly satisfying new novel by Lawrence Osborne: “They’ll be hanging like ghosts in your wordrobe filling you with guilt”.
It’s fitting rather than a flaw and one can …
Splendour in the Mud may have dampened some of the splendour at the recent music fest at Byron but a new film, 6 Festivals is sure to rekindle a vicarious enthusiasm for future events and a splendid nostalgia for past …
