Local cinemas this week
We don’t see nearly enough Asian movies in our arthouse cinemas. Why? Movie of the week: Burning Like many disaffected millennials the world over, Jong-su (Ah-in Yoo) is underemployed and listless. He works as a delivery […]
April 2019
The Chaperone giveaway
The Chaperone takes place amid the backdrop of the tumultuous times of the early 1920’s. The life of a Kansas woman (Elizabeth McGovern, Downton Abbey) is forever changed when she chaperones a beautiful and talented […]
Local cinemas this week
Post-war hanky-panky, and post-capitalism explained The Aftermath Put two of Hollywood’s hunkiest hot properties together in a handsome period drama and you can be pretty sure that soon enough they’ll get horizontal. Though when they […]
Fabulous female filmmakers
This year’s Moro Spanish Film Festival, which starts its nationwide run at Sydney’s Palace cinemas on April 16, includes a Spotlight on Female Directors interwoven into its other two strands – New Spanish Cinema and Cine Latino. […]
Local cinemas this week
It’s a remarkably strong week for arthouse and indie releases – all screening at Dendy Newtown Movie of the week: Galveston Roy Cady (Ben Foster, Hell or High Water) is an angry two-bit crim and violent hitman, […]
1985 movie giveaway
Having been gone for three years, closeted advertising executive Adrian (Cory Michael Smith) returns to his Texas hometown for the holidays during the first wave of the AIDS crisis. Burdened with an unspeakable tragedy in […]
Spanish Film Festival giveaway
This year Palace Cinemas’ popular Spanish Film Festival will be further enriched by the Cine Latino Film Festival sidebar, formerly a separate event in November. That means there now just too many highlights to list from […]
West Metro stations announced
Three new Metro station for the inner west. Late last month the NSW State government finally decided on locations for the stations on the West Metro line to Westmead, now due for completion in 2030. […]
Petersham goes all sensual
Just when you thought you had seen all of Petersham, think again. The latest highlight is sensual dancing with a sumptuous buffet. Don’t believe us…check out the video at Palaccio (the former Majestic Theatre, which […]
Breaking Habits giveaway
A higher calling… Writer-director Rob Ryan’s documentary about a weed-growing nun (huh? Say that again?) follows Christine Meeusen, a corporate exec-turned-cannabis-farmer who found her calling in medicinal marijuana. Cheated by her stealing, polygamist husband of […]