No bats, yet a scene with hanging macs gives an image hint, a cinematic simile, in Robert Eggers visually arresting version of the vampire classic, NOSFERATU.
With a creepy cadaverous count, Orlok, who goes for the aorta rather than the …
ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT is a delight. Not in some frivolous, funny way, but in a deep and meaningful way, not behoven to heaviness but to the light in the darkness of the lives, the textures and contrasts of …
Allusions to Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, James Joyce’s The Dead and the John Huston film it inspired, the inimitable silent movie star, Buster Keaton, and the iconic American artist, Edward Hopper, are all part of the mosaic that informs …
T’is the season for reading. Buying books for gifting or for personal downtime, slung in hammocks, lost in the pages, what bliss. Always a reliable guide of what to choose is the December issue of the Australian Book Review.
This …
THE SUNBIRD by Sara Haddad tells the story of a young girl, displaced as a result of Al Nakba or ‘the catastrophe,’ the mass displacement and dispossession of Palestinians during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
Structured as a parallel narrative, the …
Waverley Council has announced that Melissa Lucashenko has been awarded the 2024 Mark and Evette Moran Nib Literary Award for her novel EDENGLASSIE (UQP). Presented at the Bondi Pavillion Theatre, this year’s Award
MY FAVOURITE CAKE is a slice of life vignette with icing on the top.
Directed and written by tyro Tehran team, Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha, MY FAVOURITE CAKE tells the story of seventy year-old Mahin who lives alone …
Forget Godzilla versus Kong or Frankenstein Meets The Wolfman.
In YOUR MONSTER, allegory and metaphor duke it out in a mix of horror, musical theatre, and cinephilia.
Referential but irreverent, YOUR MONSTER takes Beauty and The Beast and gives it …
Beginning with an aerial shot of a car traversing the verdant urban outskirts to the more arid coastal verge, visuals beautifully accompanied by a sarabande by Vincent Delerme, Stephane Brize’s latest film, HORS-SAISON or OUT OF SEASON, is, in essence, …
This documentary could save your life.
CONQUERING SKIN CANCER is a scary but inspiring film, capable of influencing life style change that will serve individuals and society for the better.
CONQUERING SKIN CANCER is a horror movie and one that …