Win tickets to the French Film Festival
It’s hardly a surprise to learn that the Alliance Française French Film Festival – which arrives in town on Feb 27 and sticks around until the end of March – is now the largest festival […]
Movies
The French Film Festival’s Top Five
Five films you must see at the 2018 Alliance Française French Film Festival There are forty seven new features at this year’s festival, which completely dominates Palace Cinema’s programming for the whole month of March […]
Local cinemas this week
Lady Bird Greta Gerwig’s debut is quite simply a delight – so wonderfully fresh and warm that it seems set on another planet rather than the American teen universe we usually see on screen. It […]
Local cinemas this week
Happy End Michael Haneke certainly doesn’t like “privileged white people.” In film after film (Funny Games, Hidden and the excruciating Benny’s Video) he’s sliced through the hidden veneers of social ritual and acceptable behaviour to […]
Purple Rain giveaway
“Sex, sweat and swagger…” Those innovative people at Dendy Cinemas seem to be coming up with ever more clever ways of getting us into the theatres. One of the more intriguing special events just added […]
Local cinemas this week
Molly’s Game Aaron Sorkin, the writer behind The Social Network, The West Wing and the unfairly maligned Newsroom has long been known for his rapid-fire dialogue. His characters tend to lob whole thesauruses at each […]
A Fantastic Woman – Fundraising preview
The Oscar and Golden Globe nominated feature from Chile A Fantastic Woman will open at Dendy Newtown and Palace Norton Street on February 22. There’s quite a buzz about this film –it’s the tale of a transgender woman […]
Happy End giveaway
Master auteur Michael Haneke (Amour, The White Ribbon, Hidden) returns with a biting satire on bourgeois family values set in the shadow of the European refugee crisis. Featuring a cast of top acting talent, including Isabelle Huppert, […]
Local cinemas this week
Sweet Country In the opening scene of Warwick Thornton’s provocative and powerful new film we gaze into dark water as a billy boils. Sugar is added, lots, while off camera a racially charged argument explodes into thudding […]
New at the arthouse
Embarrassed by Swinging Safari? You should be… Swinging Safari You know a film’s in trouble when the actors in it are having more fun than you are… Guy Pearce, Julian McMahon, Jeremy Sims, and Radha […]