Those perennially burning issues, gender roles, class and race are the focus of two impressive and very different movies opening this week Dendy Newtown exclusive: Lady Macbeth As soon as the Sydney Film Festival finishes […]
May the best chicken win! Chicken may be just food to most of us, something we (perhaps guiltily) consume while trying not to think about the previous lives of the animals we’re eating. To a […]
From the sleazy to the sublime, there’s something for everyone amongst this week’s art-house movie releases Una Those who green-lighted this adaption of David Harrower’s dense and gut-wrenching 2005 play about 40 year-old man’s affair […]
This lively French box-office hit, which recently screened at the French Film Festival tells the fascinating rise-and-fall story of the first popular Afro-Cuban artist of the French stage. During the late 1800s, former slave Chocolat […]
Hotel Coolgardie could be the most shocking film about Australia ever made This startling and powerfully provocative doco from Pete Gleeson screened at Sydney Film Festival last year. It didn’t get nearly the attention it deserved then, […]
Detour is stylish new crime thriller that takes us on a trip through the seedy side of California and beyond. This sinister “Sliding Doors” follows over-privileged law student Harper (Tye Sheridan) who, after a drunken […]
To get you in the mood for the Sydney Film Festival (June 7 – 18), our arthouse distributors have just released two of their strongest films all year – on the very same day. Great timing! Neruda […]
2017 Golden Globe Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Neruda is a glorious mix of history and imagination from the award-winning director of Jackie and No, Pablo Larraín. It’s set in 1948 as the Cold […]
Bound to be a hit with discerning cinema-goers who love quality British drama, this adaptation of Julian Barnes’s Booker-winning novel by by Ritesh Batra (The Lunchbox) also stars arthouse favourites Jim Broadbent and Charlotte Rampling. […]