Tag: movie
The world’s largest short film festival, Tropfest Australia will return next year and is calling for filmmakers to get their…
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…
The Australian Academy has announced this year’s competing feature films alongside its launch of the Festival of Australian Film. A…
Less thinking, more feeling. ‘Don’t think. Feel!!!’ advises the poster for Takashi Miike’s The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capiccio. It’s…
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…
Palace Cinemas has announced it will be opening a brand new 12-screen cinema on Moonee Ponds’ Puckle Street. The new…
Based on the 1865 novella Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Russian author Nikolai Leskov, 2017’s Lady Macbeth is a dark…
A Ghost Story is a haunting and enigmatic new love story directed by David Lowery (Pete’s Dragon, Ain’t Them Bodies…
I Am Not Your Negro is the poignant Oscar-nominated documentary that brings to life the words and work of one…
The Nile Hilton Incident is a dark and politically engaged Egyptian film noir following the story of a corrupt cop…
The Party, written and directed by Sally Potter (Orlando, The Man Who Cried), has been described as “a comedy wrapped…
Hotel Coolgardie shows what it really feels like to wake in fright. Even though its director is male, Pete Gleeson’s…
