Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
A little bit The Birds, a little bit Psycho, HATCHING hitches itself to Hitchcock in its best bits and aside from some silly sliding into the schlock, gets the spine tingling and the geese bumping.
From Finland, HATCHING (Pahanhautoja) centres …
Summer holidays. Harbinger of romance. Crushes with contemporaries. Your rival isn’t usually your grandfather but in EVERYONE HAS A SUMMER, 17 year old Mirek is in competition with his 70 something granddad when rebellious Agata comes to a small town …
A flying mare of a solid gold Australian rock musical, DUBBO CHAMPIONSHIP WRESTLING whips your blues into the turn buckle, puts your woes on the ropes, and pins all your cares to the mat.
Rose, a young girl who grew …
Sadism not suspense. Ennui rather eerie. THE INNOCENTS is a wretched glacial paced examination of horrid children, an artsy fartsy wallow in callow, callous, telekinetic kids that is tedious and tasteless, trite and repetitive.
If drama is instruction …
Ian Fleming beavering away at his typewriter sets just the right tone for the beginning of the World War II espionage picture, OPERATION MINCEMEAT.
Fleming was one of the masterminds behind this bit of subterfuge that bluffed and counter bluffed …
The recent invasion and continuing war in Ukraine by Russia gives FIREBIRD an added urgency.
Based on a true story, FIREBIRD is a passionate romance set against the backdrop of an Air Force base in occupied Estonia during late 1970s …
Nature may abhor a vacuum, but boys, suck it up, the way to a woman’s heart is to Hoover.
In HOW TO PLEASE A WOMAN, a recently retrenched female worker, Gina, fired not for shoddy aptitude or attitude, but seemingly …
“My mind was a tour de force of what the fuck.” says Angus Mooney, the narrator and protagonist of Steve Toltz’s mind tilting novel, HERE GOES NOTHING. He could well be commenting on the book itself.
Angus has been …
Master filmmaker Céline Sciamma, the creator of Portrait of a Lady on Fire, is back with PETITE MAMAN, a captivating fairy tale that explores childhood and a mother-daughter relationship that crosses through time.
The film begins in a world of …
Want to accuse Leah Purcell of cultural appropriation? Go for your life.
Her appropriation of Henry Lawson’s short story, The Drover’s Wife, reworking it, redefining it, into THE DROVER’S WIFE: THE LEGEND OF MOLLY JOHNSON is an entirely appropriate and …