At first glance, a festival dedicated only to US films seems strange – isn’t every film at our multiplexes American, and half those at arthouses as well? True, but the American Essentials Film Festival sets out to […]
Unsane Steven Soderbergh shot his latest new thriller entirely on an iPhone 7 in just over a week, something hailed as a breakthrough. “I think this is the future,” he’s been quoted as saying. Maybe… […]
The untold true story of the scandal that changed the world Chappaquiddick is a piercing reexamination of the true murky events surrounding the most difficult seven days of Senator Ted Kennedy’s career. In the aftermath […]
Queenstown in New Zealand is a great destination for both adventure seekers and gourmets, travel editor Winsor Dobbin discovers. It’s the birthplace of bungee jumping, the Kiwi capital of jet boating and a Mecca of […]
Reliable red Wirra Wirra 2016 Church Block Vintage after vintage, Wirra Wirra’s Church Block is one of those rare wines that can be guaranteed to deliver both quality and value for money. That’s certainly the […]
Based on Tim Winton’s award-winning novel of the same name, Simon Baker’s feature film directorial debut Breath follows two teenage boys, Pikelet (Samson Coulter) and Loonie (Ben Spence), growing up in a remote corner of […]
Charlize Theron stars As Marlo in Tully, the smart new comedy-drama from Academy Award nominated director Jason Reitman (Juno and Up in the Air). When Marlo is gifted a night nanny by her brother (Mark Duplass) […]
2018 Academy Award Nominee for Best Foreign Language Film, Winner of the 2017 Sydney Film Festival Award and the 2017 Berlinale Golden Bear, On Body and Soul is about the unconventional romance between two co-workers who discover that […]
Every year Australian audiences are treated to some of the most unique and acclaimed independent cinema direct from the US indie film festival scene. This May the American Essentials Film Festival returns to Palace Cinemas with a […]
Loveless They banned The Death of Stalin in Russia, but really – state censors chose the wrong film to get all huffy about. That satiric comedy’s mockery and depiction of one of Mother Russia’s former supreme […]