Local cinemas this week
An attractive adaption of a classic Russian play and a queasily compelling true crime thriller The Seagull When Chekhov first staged The Seagull in St Peterburgh in 1896, it was greeted with catcalls and the […]
Movies
In Like Flynn giveaway
Buccaneer, smuggler, gambler, street fighter, gold prospector and one of the most charismatic movie stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age, Errol Flynn’s life, before he found fame as an actor, was not for the faint-hearted… Legendary […]
Local cinemas this week
We’re at the multiplex this week, with a goth girl with special powers destined to save the world and a prehistoric teenage boy who teaches a wolf to play fetch. Harmony It’s near impossible not […]
Wajib giveaway
Win tickets to Wajib – The Wedding Invitation In writer-director Annemarie Jacir’s multi-award winning comic drama, a father and his estranged son must come together to hand deliver his daughter’s wedding invitations to each guest […]
Local cinemas this week
A cartoonist’s battle with the bottle and a soldier’s search for redemption Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far On Foot As quadriplegic cartoonist John Callahan, Joaquin Phoenix zips around the streets of Portland so recklessly […]
This month’s best film
A harrowing but important new French drama previewing this weekend takes us to an uncomfortable place Custody Weirdly, earlier this year I nominated the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival’s Top 5 and didn’t include its best […]
Harmony giveaway
Starring Jessica Falkholt, Jerome Meyer and Eamon Farren, Harmony is a story of a super-empath, an orphan born with the power to absorb the fear of others. At 21, Harmony (Falkholt) is alone and destitute […]
Local cinemas this week
It’s the most ambitious and the nicest Aussie movie in years. But is nice enough? Ladies in Black Bruce Beresford is one of Australia’s few remaining old-school film directors still working, and his latest work, an […]
American Animals giveaway
Nobody wants to be ordinary From Bart Layton (The Imposter) and starring Evan Peters (The X-Men Series), Barry Keoghan (Dunkirk, The Killing of the Sacred Deer) and Anne Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale) comes the extraordinary […]
The Seagull giveaway
One summer at a lakeside Russian estate, friends and family gather for a weekend in the countryside. While everyone is caught up in passionately loving someone who loves somebody else, a tragicomedy unfolds about art, […]