Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Ten finalists for the prestigious Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films will screen in the Festival. Australia’s longest running short film competition is now in its 52nd year and has been sponsored by Dendy Cinemas since 1989.
Finalists will …
“A suicide widow with a half cooked son” seduces Phil Burbank’s brother, George, in Jane Campion’s rousing return to the cinema, THE POWER OF THE DOG.
Based on the novel by Thomas Savage, THE POWER OF THE DOG …
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service out of You Only Live Twice, NO TIME TO DIE takes this Ian Fleming double helix and modifies and manipulates it into a James Bond epic that is, quite simply, precision engineered entertainment.
Working …
While away the dark hours immersed in Michael Connelly’s latest thriller, THE DARK HOURS, and chances are you’ll be catching the dawn.
Featuring Connelly’s most enduring character, Harry Bosch and recent creation, Renee Ballard, THE DARK HOURS is as …
Highly influenced by Alain Resnais’ Hiroshima, Mon Amor, Danielle Arbid’s PASSION SIMPLE is a sublime study in erotic obsession.Helene is a literature professor in Paris researching a book on Aphra BehnShe has begun an affair with a younger man, a …
It was speculated at one time that SPECTRE had masterminded the theft of the Goya painting, The Duke of Wellington, from the National Gallery, and that James Bond had tracked it down to the lair of Dr No on …
Salivating cinema, JULIA is a delicious documentary made by Betsy West and Julie Cohen who cooked up the Academy Award nominated RBG a couple of years ago.
JULIA is Julia Child, one of the modern era’s most entertaining and …
Despite having Ray Liotta appear in two roles, THE MANY SAINTS OF NEWARK is no Goodfellas.
However, Liotta’s performances are perfect, and perfect reason to see the film. He plays, Hollywood Dick, the father of the main character Dickie …
The ST. ALi Italian Film Festival has opened with the Australian premiere of Daniele Luchetti’s THE TIES (Lacci) which opened last year’s Venice Film Festival.
THE TIES is the perfect title for this film, because all the …
Some sixty years ago, E. D. O’Brien, writing in the Illustrated London News, said of John Le Carre: “If he continues at this level, he will soar beyond any of the great names of this century.”
Applause for O’Brien …