Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
LA LA LAND by way of HOLY MOTORS, a star is torn in ANNETTE, Leos Carax’s rock and sock opera fuelled by music and original story by Ron and Russel Mael, of Sparks.
Beginning with the exuberant choral call to …
Screamer streamer Shudder, enters the vampire stakes with JAKOB’S WIFE, “some motherfucker vampire shit.” as one hysterical character shouts.
Set in the town of Kinski, (the first of a slew of sly sallies in the genre referential vein), JAKOB’S …
COME PLAY tells the story of Oliver, a solitary autistic boy who comes across a creepy children’s story on his new tablet.
Unlike his regular favourite entertainment, SpongeBob Squarepants, the storybook comes unbidden and Oliver has no idea that …
Dedicated to Terry Jones, BYE BYE MORONS has another tangible link – or is that a wink – to Monty Python by way of a cameo by Terry Gilliam as a critter killin’ gun salesman.
Admiration and inspiration notwithstanding, BYE …
More akin to Le Carre than Bond and Bourne bombast, WIFE OF A SPY is an intriguing, enigmatic and inscrutable espionage story set in Japan at the beginning of World War II.
Yusaku is a sophisticated textiles trader in …
“I am not going to burn myself on the pyre of romance, on a future that exists only in my imagination.”
So ends the first chapter of NOTHING BUT MY BODY, Tilly Lawless’ tart outlaw novel of sex …
Front row of the giant anti-Vietnam War moratorium march in Melbourne, on May 8, 1970. Jean McLean is second from right, flanked by politicians Clyde Holding, right, and Tom Uren left. Pic Arthur De La Rue
What more relevant contender …
Taking the term “wedlock” a tad too literally, TILL DEATH tells the tale of a young woman who wakes up handcuffed to her dead husband after a romantic evening in their secluded lake house.
Trapped and isolated in the dead …
Anya Taylor-Joy and Dean Charles Chapman in HERE ARE THE YOUNG MEN
Based on the acclaimed novel, Here Are The Young Men by Rob Doyle, Eoin Macken’s film, HERE ARE THE YOUNG MEN, catalogues the calamitous and catastrophic post school …
Scene from Cannes prize winning TITANE
The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) has responded to the evolving COVID environment with the announcement that its hybrid festival will change the order of its program to maximise both in-cinema and online opportunities …