Author: Tom Bensley
Climax When I tell people about Gaspar Noé’s films (likely often enough to constitute a social faux pas), I like…
Does anybody go to the movies anymore? Most movie journalists would have you believe they don’t – in fact, if…
It hits hard and leaves bruises. Reviewing films at a festival, especially one as packed as the MIFF, you remember…
Though its characters lack motivation, Nic Gorman’s Human Traces is a finely executed and taught thriller. Nic Gorman’s first full…
Less thinking, more feeling. ‘Don’t think. Feel!!!’ advises the poster for Takashi Miike’s The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capiccio. It’s…
German tale of boundless youth doesn’t quite go far enough. First published as a novel titled Axolotl Roadkill when its author…
American directors could learn a thing or two from Mouly Surya. On a desolate landscape in Indonesia where the sun…
The 2017 Melbourne International Film Festival has arrived and, as usual, picking from the gargantuan list of films is an…
Hotel Coolgardie shows what it really feels like to wake in fright. Even though its director is male, Pete Gleeson’s…
