Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
Epic in the grandiloquence of The Godfather, BIRDS OF PASSAGE follows the family fortunes and fallout of the nascent Colombian cartels.
Cristina Gallego and Ciro Guerra’s Birds of Passage is a rags-to-riches-to-rags crime saga, a genre film infused with a …
From age-old ghost stories to chilling tales from the spirit realm, the Japanese Film Festival (JFF) presents a FREE Classics program featuring spine-tingling horror. Titled Grief and Vengeance: Otherworldly Tales, The Classics program arrives in Sydney at the Art Gallery …
Rigor mortis sets in early in Jim Jarmusch’s zombie dead pan, THE DEAD DON’T DIE.
Set at shuffling pace, this poor companion piece to his virtuoso vampire flick, Only Lovers Left Alive, is amusing to a degree and esoteric to …
A fairy tale refrain is “one day my prince will come.”
In RIDE LIKE A GIRL, that refrain takes on a reality.
As a little girl, Michelle Payne dreams of the impossible: winning the Melbourne Cup — horse-racing’s toughest two-mile …
The devil’s grip is an expression used to describe a genetic defect in sheep, considered to be a flaw on the show circuit.
Neal Drinnan has fleeced the term for the title of his compelling investigation and inquiry into toxic …
Kubrick meets Coppola in James Gray’s AD ASTRA, a space odyssey prompted by imminent apocalypse now.
Brad Pitt stars as astronaut Roy McBride, son of the most decorated astronaut, who vanished the other side of Neptune on a mission in …
The patients of of the Lilac ward, the psychiatric facility of Saint Jude’s hospital, don’t fly over the cuckoo’s nest, they nest there.
And in the Matthew Rankcom and Joe Wilson musical, PERFECTLY ORDINARY, they sing about their psychosis, make …
The patients of of the Lilac ward, the psychiatric facility of Saint Jude’s hospital, don’t fly over the cuckoo’s nest, they nest there.
And in the Matthew Rankcom and Joe Wilson musical, PERFECTLY ORDINARY, they sing about their psychosis, make …
Gonzo journalism is alive and well in Luke Williams’ DOWN AND OUT IN PARADISE.
Escaping a harrowing head space as much as the homophobic hometown of Bundaberg, Williams first flees to the putrid Grandma-burnt-her-filtyhy-eggs-again halfway house in Melbourne then escapes …
A kind of second cousin twice removed from Once Upon A Time in Hollywood, FINDING STEVE McQUEEN is wickedly entertaining romp that pays out the adage truth can be stranger than fiction.
Set some eight years before Steve McQueen carked …