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 […]
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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 […]
Local cinemas this week
Movie of the week: Beast Early in Michael Pearce’s deliciously clever debut feature, a young woman called Moll (Jessie Buckley) stares into the mirror and plucks a single long hair from just under her chin. […]
Custody giveaway
The astonishing, break-out critical discovery of the Venice Film Festival, where it was awarded Best Director and Best Debut Film, Xavier Legrand’s heart-stopping French drama Custody charts a family’s struggles with the fallout of divorce, […]
Beast giveaway
Be careful what you unleash Moll (Jessie Buckley) feels suffocated by her oppressive family and the small island community in which she lives. When she meets mysterious outsider Pascal (Johnny Flynn), she finally experiences a […]
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Movie of the week: The Insult It’s easy to see why this Beirut-based drama got its Academy Award nomination and then went on to win the Audience Award at this year’s Sydney Film Festival. Writer/director […]
You Were Never Really Here giveaway
Fresh from screenings at both the Sydney and Melbourne film festivals, two of the greatest cinema artists of our time, director Lynne Ramsay (We Need to Talk About Kevin) and actor Joaquin Phoenix unite in this masterpiece about a missing teenage […]
Local cinemas this week
Movie of the week: C’est La Vie Olivier Nakache and Eric Toleando, the French pair who gave us the monstrous 2012 hit The Intouchables have come up with another brilliant crowdpleaser with this Altman-esque look […]
McQueen giveaway
You won’t need any special interest in fashion to be blown away by this handsomely photographed rise-and-fall story. Presently rating a rare 100% on Rotten Tomatoes, the critics are unanimous in their praise for McQueen […]
Luis and the Aliens family movie giveaway
Extra Terrestrial. Extra Trouble. Luis and the Aliens tells the story of an 12-year-old boy, Luis, who makes friends with three awkward little aliens who crash their little spaceship near his house. In return for […]