Tin Star giveaway
A treat for Tim Roth fans, we have DVDs of his acclaimed new series Tin Star to giveaway. Set in the majestic Canadian Rockies, Tin Star tells the story of Jim Worth (Tim Roth), a […]
Movies
Two German gems
Most years the German Film Festival allows reviewers to simply trot out that same tired old cliche about Germans having no sense of humour. And repeat the commonly held view – that German filmmakers, burdened with the […]
Brothers’ Nest giveaway
Twelve years after the phenomenal success of Kenny, director and actor Clayton Jacobson reunites with his brother Shane Jacobson in Brothers’ Nest – a blackly funny and very different sort of film. On a cold morning […]
Local cinemas this week
Gauguin Paul Gauguin’s most famous works are those gorgeous brown-skinned nudes dubbed “the Polynesian babe” paintings. Anyone interested in art and art history will be fascinated in seeing how they came about, but the timing of […]
Local cinemas this week
There has to be something other than yet one more episode of that now endless franchise set on blank green screen in a galaxy far, far away worth seeing this week. Fortunately there is. The Bookshop […]
Upgrade giveaway
Upgrade is a thrilling cyberpunk vision of the near future from Aussie genre maestro Leigh Whannell (creator of Saw and Insidious) and Blumhouse Productions (Get Out, The Purge). After his wife is killed during a […]
Sydney Film Festival keeps Newtown weird
A few years ago Sydney Film Festival organisers went looking for somewhere to screen their “highly unusual,” movies safely away from the eyes of their regular daytime subscribers. Naturally they chose Newtown. Since then Dendy Newtown has […]
Tea with the Dames ticket giveaway
From time to time four old friends, all extraordinary actresses, meet up in the English countryside to gossip, to remember and to laugh. For once they let the cameras in… Tea with the Dames is […]
Focus on Italy
Six outstanding Italian films at the 2018 Sydney Film Festival There are always a few Italian films at the Sydney Film Festival, but it has to be said, compared to other European countries, Italy does […]
Local cinemas this week
Tully Marlo (Charlize Theron) is married to Drew (Ron Livingston). Every night, according to Marlo at least, he “goes upstairs, puts on a headset, kills zombies, passes out.” Her nightly routine is to serve frozen […]