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It’s not a shingle openly displayed on diplomatic outposts, but the traitor’s gates are always open. Then it’s a process of determining the enfumage, which in espionage parlance means a fake person or …
If there were more suicides there’d be less suicides muses Bill Murray’s character in the pooch perfect pooch picture, THE FRIEND.
Murray’s character, Walter, does top himself, and bequeaths his behemoth hound, Apollo, to Iris, played by Naomi Watts. Iris …
Accident. Suicide. Murder. There’s much room inside WHEN FALL IS COMING to accommodate a multitude of facts, fictions and suspicions.
In the light of the recent so called Mushroom Murder Trial in Victoria, there’s a certain piquancy to François Ozon’s …
In the first five minutes of THE STOLEN PAINTING, a blind dowager manages to offend Blacks, Bretons and her own brood. It sets the tone for this caustic comedy set in the arts end of the world.
André Masson, an …
It’s pussy galore on the big screen as CatVideoFest 2025 gives cause for claws a joyous, communal cinematic experience that delights audiences while giving back. Every ticket sold raises money for cats in need, for feline-focused nonprofits.
Curated by filmmaker …
Book adaptations are seldom successful and so it is with FOUR LETTERS OF LOVE, although there is much to admire in the film, written by the author himself, Niall Williams.
Convoluted plotting, the wildest chance and outrageous coincidence fit like …
Whatcha gunnar do if your country is invaded?
For Gunnar Sønsteby, in 1940 when the Nazi’s invaded Norway, he knew what. Resist.
As the German war machine invaded Norway, and Gunnar, a 23 year old accountant immediately offered his services …
A BEAUTIFUL FAMILY is the beautifully ironic title of Jennifer Trevelyan’s debut novel.
It’s the summer of 85/86 and a family of four, mum, dad and their two daughters trek from Wellington to the Kapiti coast of New Zealand for …
A seriously sinister comedy written and directed by Andrew De Young, FRIENDSHIP is a vessel of unhinged cringe.
Craig Waterman is a bloke with a good job, a wife who has survived cancer and a son showing Oedipal tendencies.
He …
Want one good reason to attend the 2025 Hurtigruten Scandinavian Film Festival? Here are three.
Acclaimed director of The King’s Choice, Erik Poppe, returns to wartime Norway with Quisling: The Final Days, a bold and fascinating historical drama about …