Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Federal parliamentarians would do well to scope BECOMING COUSTEAU before the Glasgow Climate Conference.
Fifty years ago, the venerable voyager, Jacques-Yves Cousteau was awakening the world to the devastation industrialism was doing to the oceans. And remembering a vast …
Long after many of the movies you’ll’ve viewed this year merge in your memory, you’ll vividly recall THE KILLING OF TWO LOVERS.
Deftly rendered and deeply satisfying, THE KILLING OF TWO LOVERS begins with a man with a gun …
Enthusiastic as sunshine, dependable as grass, Amor Towles’ big, broad, sprawling epic of a book, THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY is a towering odyssey that delivers adventure, action, character, education and a freeway to fun.
Named for the first road to …
When Evil visits, unbidden and unwelcome, we grapple with trying to understand. Likely as not, we never will understand, but trying to make sense of the senseless is as strong a human desire as any to find reason in …
It’s hard to make an entirely boring movie.
Script and direction can be ever so drab, but art direction, costume design and vivid performances can be rescuers.
If all else fails, location, location, location. Set the camera up in …
“What the fuck is this?” bleats Ingvar’s brother in LAMB.
I suspect this line will resonate with many in the audience.
LAMB is the feature film directorial debut of Valdimar Johannsson.
Noomi Rapace and Hilmer Snaer Guonasan play …
Warning! Warning! Global warming!
Kindling memories of disastrous bushfires of a couple of years ago, COVID having cold shouldered the catastrophic conflagrations from the wider community, the alarming and disarming documentary, A FIRE INSIDE ignites emotions across a number …
To intone Tom Gleeson, “Lately I’ve been really getting into…… children’s picture books. HARD.”
This binge viewing has been brought on by a trio of books published by Lothian, who have been publishing children’s books for forty years and …
Sixty one per cent of households in Australia have pets, forty per cent of which are dogs. This affinity for the canid as a domestic companion runs counter to the disdain, suspicion, hostility and persecution of Australia’s native dog, …
Roots of racism run deep in Bowraville on the New South Wales North Coast.
Thirty years ago, in this hinterland hamlet, three homicides were perpetrated.
In 1990-91 three kids disappeared from an Aboriginal Mission on the same street in Bowraville, …