Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
ZAPPA, a film by Alex Winter of ‘Bill & Ted’ fame, is the First All-Access Documentary on the Life and Times of Frank Zappa, and obviously a must for Zappa fans but also for the general public as it is …
More than a dance company, Bangarra Dance Theatre is a collective of Cultural Activists, and this cultural activism is superbly illustrated by FIRESTARTER: THE STORY OF BANGARRA, a filmed time capsule that celebrates the Company’s first thirty years.
Bangarra is …
Not so steady, but real and ready, snout cam is deployed to depict the doggedness of the treat seeking missiles, the olfactory fidos in THE TRUFFLE HUNTERS, Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw’s film of the foragers of forest delicacies in …
MINARI takes its title from a herb found in Korea. It becomes a metaphor of transplantation, of pulling up roots and putting them down in new soil.
Lee Isaac Chung’s beautiful, lyrical film of the migrant experience focuses on a …
Laugh like a drain, seriously, reading Richard Beasley’s DEAD IN THE WATER, probably the most seriously funny or funnily serious book you’ll read this year.
DEAD IN THE WATER is a very angry book about our greatest environmental catastrophe – …
Booze. Binge. Cultural cringe. Another Australian film? Not at all. ANOTHER ROUND is Danish, where getting into the piss is just as rife as in Oz.
ANOTHER ROUND starts with a schoolies scenario of drinking games – chugging till you …
Smiert spionam. Death to Spies. It’s straight out of Ian Fleming’s Casino Royale.
But SLOUGH HOUSE is not a James Bond adventure, rather the next best thing, or to some, the better thing, while we wait for the next oft postponed 007 cinematic …
Reminiscent of Roman Polanski’s ‘Carnage’, THE PEOPLE UPSTAIRS is somewhat less lacerating and more farcical and brings another layer of meaning to the term ‘Love Thy Neighbour’.
A sort of ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolf’ in sheep’s clothing, opens with …
Harrison Ford, speechless. Harrison Ford, in tears.
Jane Fonda, affectionate with a profound fondness.
And the recently departed Christopher Plummer in deprecating dulcet.
Hollywood legends united in grief and gratitude to pay tribute to the extraordinary filmmaker, Alan Pakula in …
Risk, reward, riches. That’s the three Rs of writer director Sean Durkin’s THE NEST, an above average stock take on avarice.
Charm and bullshit and a bushel of talent has got Rory O’Hara out of his council flat flat-lining childhood …