I SWEAR @ AUSTRALIAN CINEMAS FROM 25th MARCH 2026

I SWEAR is a Masterpiece About Connection, Focused Empathy and the Unbreakable Human Spirit. In the cinematic landscape, often dominated by spectacle, I SWEAR is a rare and profound gift, to encounter a film that possesses the unique quiet power, …

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THE PLAGUE: ACME OF ACNE

THE PLAGUE is about the pestilence of persistent and prevailing bullying, that stubborn stain of the human condition.

The film opens with a shot of a pool stand, the calm, still waters belying the coming storm. One by one, the

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THE BRIDE: CROSSING THE THRESHOLDS

A monster mash, THE BRIDE is a sprawling wink, nod and smile to Universal creature features, MGM musicals and Warner Brothers crime dramas.

As we are told on opening title card, Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein as a dare and Maggie

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RETRO REVIEW : JULIE TAYMOR’S THE TEMPEST (2010)

What makes Julie Taymor’s adaptation  of THE TEMPEST  so audacious, against the negative  reception to its showing when it debuted  in 2010– is that it opened up space inside the Bard’s play to reveal  themes that the text might otherwise …

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PLAINCLOTHES: CLOSETED COPS

The wistful Emily Wells song, My San Francisco, plays over the end titles of Carmen Emmi’s Sundance award-winning thriller PLAINCLOTHES, a plaintive song to end Emmi’s My Own Private Idaho influence.

Set in 1990s Syracuse, PLAINCLOTHES follows Lucas, a promising

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