Local cinemas this week
Movie of the week: Summer 1993 If you think that curly head girl in the yellow car looks familiar, you’d be right. Summer 1993, an autobiographical film from Catalan writer-director Carla Simon, has been around […]
Movies
On Chesil Beach giveaway
Based on the celebrated novel by Ian McEwan (Atonement), On Chesil Beach is a powerful, insightful romantic drama about two people, both defined by their upbringing and bound by the social mores of another era. […]
C’est La Vie giveaway
The masterminds behind the runaway success The Intouchables are back with C’est La Vie – the number one film at the recent Alliance Française French Film Festival. After organising hundreds of events over 30 years, Max […]
Kiwis do it better
The Breaker Upperers It’s official, at least according to ABC’s film critic Jason Di Rosso, NZ does comedy better than Australia! He announced that when chatting with Fran Kelly on RN the other morning, and well Jason, […]
Local cinemas this week
Movie of the week: Whitney Maybe it wasn’t so wise to tag Kevin MacDonald’s heartbreaking new doco on Whitney Houston’s troubled and tragic life as “The untold story. For the first time” Sure, this is […]
The Breaker Upperers giveaway
Another dose of Kiwi comedy magic arrives on our screens this month. Written, directed and starring Jackie van Beek and Madeleine Sami, The Breaker Upperers was the wildly popular opening night film at Sydney Film […]
Local cinemas this week
An Iranian drama that soars, and hokum high in the sky No Date, No Signature Outside of the Film Festival, very few Iranian films ever manage to find arthouse screens in Sydney. In the last […]
Scandinavian Film Festival highlights
The Volvo Scandinavian Film Festival opens this week at Palace Cinemas, with another strong program showcasing the best in Nordic cinema. Once again it’s been curated by veteran festival programmer Elysia Zeccola, who well understands why the region’s […]
Local cinemas this week
An under-rated literary biopic, a movie to raise your glasses to, and one to avoid Mary Shelley Saudi filmmaker Haifaa Al Mansour’s Wadja (about a young girl desperate to own a bicycle she’s forbidden to […]
Whitney giveaway
Whitney Houston broke more music industry records than any other female singer in history. With over 200 million album sales worldwide, she was the only artist to chart seven consecutive U.S. No. 1 singles. She […]