Appropriately enough, Warwick Thornton’s (Samson and Deliah) latest festival and critical triumph is set to open on the Australia Day weekend. Inspired by real events, Sweet Country is a period western set in 1929 in the outback […]
Remember when the US actually did have a “like, really really smart” president? The last year of President Obama’s administration, particularly in foreign affairs, was one of substantial achievement, and yet all of it can […]
All The Money In The World On the very same day we found out that Australian living standards were actually falling and were now lower than in 2011, I saw a movie whose message was a […]
The Post Much of the appeal of Steven Spielberg’s timely and exhilarating drama The Post lies in its misty-eyed nostalgia. It takes us back to a time when we all read printed newspapers, when journalists […]
From master story-teller Guillermo del Toro, The Shape Of Water is an other-worldly fairy tale set against the backdrop of Cold War era America in 1962. In the hidden high-security government laboratory where she works, […]
Some of 2017’s best movies are on their way to your arthouse screens this christmas. Call Me By Your Name In the course of the six week time span of Luca Guadagnino’s (I Am Love, A […]
No 1. The Florida Project Sean Baker’s warm-hearted third feature takes us to Florida, to a tacky sun-blasted highway strip near DisneyWorld (“the happiest place on earth”) lined with abandoned and derelict condos, garishly painted roadside stalls […]
Nominated – Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor – 2018 Golden Globe Awards 17-year-old Elio (Timothée Chalamet) is spending a lazy summer in the Italian countryside with his parents. Excitement arrives in the form […]
Adventurous and charismatic, Robin Cavendish (Andrew Garfield) has his whole life ahead of him when he is paralysed by polio while in Africa and given just months to live. Against all advice, Robin’s wife Diana […]
The breakout French hit of the 2017 Cannes Festival, charming romantic comedy Just To Be Sure is a winning tale of parenthood, love and family, both lost and found. When 45-year-old widower Erwan (François Damiens) […]