Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Epic, operatic, Kabuki infused spectacle, KOKUHO is a vision splendid.
At nearly three hours long, it is a testament to the film’s visual beauty and dramatic depth that it never fails to fascinate.
Beginning on New Year’s Day, 1964 in …
“Christmas is a con!” says the subcontinental Scrooge, Mr Sood, in Gurinder Chadha’s CHRISTMAS KARMA, a bowdlerised Bollywood-inspired reimagining of Charles Dickens’ classic A Christmas Carol.
Couldn’t agree more and this picture is part of the problem.
Swimming …
Chloë Sevigny plays a perplexed producer of guerrilla style docos in Amalia Ulman’s absurdist comedy Magic Farm.
Yanks tank as a misguided American documentary crew working for a mini mogul media company led by Simon Rex’s character, Dave, travel …
Just in time for Thanksgiving and Christmas, John Irving has served up a turkey in QUEEN ESTHER.
A cider house ruse, QUEEN ESTHER, John Irving’s latest novel, is being touted as a return to the realm of Dr Larch and …
First five minutes a frightening foreword and a final five minutes of freaky frisson, DIABOLIC has an eighty minute centre as soggy as sago.
Watching this Australian made movie masquerading as an American horror show, one at first surrenders to …
Rising like a phoenix almost a decade after its first production, ATLANTIS makes a welcome, albeit brief, return to the Sydney stage.
Like the mythical city it takes its title from, Paul Gilchrist’s ATLANTIS is about sinking ideals and submerged …
Monstrously more interesting than almost anything on the Sydney’s main stages at the moment, MONSTROUS mounts a provocative production of transgressive tensions.
The play opens with a transgression, a live theatre show starting with projected screen credits like a movie. …
Here’s hoping history is as kind to Jacinda Ardern as the keystone of her philosophy. Kindness.
Kindness is considered weak by the strong men of politics. Trump, Putin, Netanyahu prefer cruelty to kindness, perceiving kindness akin to passive deficiency, …
Guy Fawkes night has been superseded by the 2025 Russell Hobbs British Film Festival, a bonfire of explosive pictures with hotly anticipated new releases, documentaries and restrospectives.
Opening the festival is the Australian Premiere of THE CHORAL, a sweeping …
Begosh and begora, BUGONIA, is the bee’s knees in the hive of recent conspiracy theory pictures coming out of the Disunited States of Trumponia.
From Yorgos Lanthimos, the director of Poor Things and The Favourite, comes a…