Art for art’s sake. Art felt and artful.
“Magnificent cunt! How are you doing?”
It’s a term of endearment from a Serbian mercenary to ex MI-Sixer Paul Samson in Henry Porter’s latest spy yarn, WHITE HOT SILENCE, a lingua franca illustrative of Porter’s ear for dialogue in an …
AN UNEXPECTED LOVE begins with a quote from Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, and then proceeds to harpoon the great white whale of a stale marriage.
When Ana and Marco arrive at the airport to farewell their son Luciano, who is …
The Volvo Scandinavian Film Festival presented by Palace offers a strong and diverse selection of films from Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Finland. The programme of 21 films will screen in cinemas nationally from 9 July. Go North!
The Festival …
Yesterday, all Jack’s troubles seemed so today, but, from across the universe, those birds have flown, now he believes in tomorrow.
In Richard Curtis and Danny Boyle’s cosmic comic confection, YESTERDAY, Jack Malik is a struggling singer songwriter who survives …
There’s a whole lot of monkey business in TREVOR, Nick Jones’ furious flight of fancy that has a chimp make a chump of us all.
The titular Trevor is a clever primate, the apogee of anthropomorphism, touched with the …
Malla Nunn burst onto the literary scene a little over a decade ago with a brace of historical crime novels featuring exotic copper Emmanuel Cooper.
Nunn’s latest novel, WHEN THE GROUND IS HARD, jettisons detective fiction in favour of a …
The forging of fellowship and the fervent following of philology is the focus of TOLKIEN, the brilliant biopic of the creator of the iconic Lord of the Rings.
Directed by Dome Karukoski, TOLKIEN is written by David Gleesonand Stephen Beresford …
With WILD ROSE, a star is born, not just the actor, Jessie Buckley, but her character, Rose-Lynn.
Following in the great history of celebratory, aspirational films about real people transcending their surroundings like The Commitments, The
Full Monty and Billy …
It’s never too early to experience the Sydney Film Festival and the lineup of films that are family friendly is pretty impressive.
Running over the long weekend, a quartet of kids kino is an irresistible temptation to while away three …
The Sydney Film Festival has officially launched and one of the high flying documentaries you wont want to miss is APOLLO 11, from director Todd Douglas Miller.
It’s getting a wider release to mark the golden anniversary of the astronomically …