After going MIA last year, the German Film Festival makes a welcome return to Palace Cinemas later this month. Though its former organisers the Goethe-Institut are still actively involved, its now being run by Palace themselves. It […]
Based on Penelope Fitzgerald’s novel of the same name, The Bookshop is set in 1959. Florence Green (Emily Mortimer), a free-spirited widow, puts grief behind her and risks everything to open up a bookshop – the […]
In So much Golden Age television is returning to screens! From Westworld, a science-fiction western about a robot uprising, to The Handmaid’s Tale, a feminist dystopia and the most zeitgesit-y show since Game of Thrones, […]
It was a celebration of Newtown’s finest, as the Keep Newtown Safe and Weird festival rolled into King Street in April. Now in its third year, the event is a freaky street party spreading love […]
Two movies about the dark art of politics open in the local cinemas this week Chappaquiddick OMG, what was he thinking?!! That’s likely to be most people’s reaction to what Senator Ted Kennedy did after he drove […]
On Body And Soul Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi is a bold and unique filmmaker who doesn’t play by any of the usual rules. Her first film in nearly 20 years is about two people who share […]
Breath It’s a sobering thought that the best new Australian movie since, um… (I don’t know…. forever!) may not have even been made on these shores. That’s if author Tim Winton’s Nimby-ish instincts had held sway. […]