Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
A compelling companion piece to Quo Vadis, Aida?, HIVE shifts the action from Bosnia to Kosovo to show the insidious consequence of irredentism.
Fahrije’s husband has been missing since the war in Kosovo, and along with their grief, her family …
What is it with Ben Mendelssohn and Joe Wright?
Wright casts him in supporting roles and Mendelssohn walks away with the picture.
It happened in Darkest Hour and it’s happened again in CYRANO.
Mendelssohn stars as de Guiche, with the …
QUO VADIS, AIDA? begins and ends with a close up of Aida, many years apart, her face and hair showing the toll of her journey through the years of the Serbia Bosnia war. These portraits bookend a journey of genocide …
From the Hebrew and Arabic meaning purity or the concept of cleanliness, TAHARA is the wryly ironic title of Olivia Peace’s teen coming of age piece.
The pic starts with teens at a funeral for one of their peers, a …
Now is the winner of the bent show tent, made glorious stunner by Bernie Dieter’s Club Kabarett in the famous Spiegeltent .
The Burlesque aesthete is pure and complete, with MC Bernie Dieter leading this stunning elite of circus …
I can’t figure it out. C’mon, c’mon, members of the Academy, how come C’MON, C’MON did not get a single Oscar nomination?
“I’ll figure it out” seems to be a mantra in the early stages of C’MON C’MON.
Trying …
Pineapples and ducks are all part of the luscious lasciviousness and intrigue in LOST ILLUSIONS, a sumptuous saga of status and smear.
Opening this year’s Alliance Française French Film Festival is the Australian premiere of LOST ILLUSIONS, based …
An animated feature, a documentary, and, with English not the principal language spoken, an “international film”, FLEE ticks three boxes in the Oscar nomination categories and delivers a hat trick.
An exquisite animation, FLEE flies above the somewhat mawkish fare …
Starring three Australian living national treasures and one, sadly, departed, A STITCH IN TIME is an unabashedly heart-warming story about former dressmaker Liebe whose life becomes frayed when the threads of her life start to stray.
When Liebe’s partner Duncan …
One hour of existential crisis, millennial dread, neurotic ventriloquism and show tunes and you’ve got your hand in the glove of PUPPETS, written and performed by Olivia Ruggiero, part of the Panimo Pandemonium Festival taking over KXT.
Olivia Ruggiero’s antic …