Based on the seminal 1947 novel by Hans Fallada, writer/director Vincent Perez’s movie Alone in Berlin is at its most vividly terrifying when its shows us everyday life in a authoritarian state. Brendan Gleeson and Emma Thompson play Otto an Anna, an […]
Those perennially burning issues, gender roles, class and race are the focus of two impressive and very different movies opening this week Dendy Newtown exclusive: Lady Macbeth As soon as the Sydney Film Festival finishes […]
May the best chicken win! Chicken may be just food to most of us, something we (perhaps guiltily) consume while trying not to think about the previous lives of the animals we’re eating. To a […]
From the sleazy to the sublime, there’s something for everyone amongst this week’s art-house movie releases Una Those who green-lighted this adaption of David Harrower’s dense and gut-wrenching 2005 play about 40 year-old man’s affair […]
Open Inner West 16 — 25 June Open Inner West Festival is back! Across 24 suburbs and ten days, revel in 57 cultures across the Inner West and unearth diverse communities from Klub Koori to […]
You can’t go past homemade flatbreads. They’re warm and deliciously buttery, can be served with just about anything and are as easy as pie to make. It has become a weekend family ritual of ours […]
Owner and run leader of Boobs on the Run, Melanie Warman, has been running for 25 years and a coach for 15. The Balmain mother created a running business as a way to raise much […]
This lively French box-office hit, which recently screened at the French Film Festival tells the fascinating rise-and-fall story of the first popular Afro-Cuban artist of the French stage. During the late 1800s, former slave Chocolat […]
Hotel Coolgardie could be the most shocking film about Australia ever made This startling and powerfully provocative doco from Pete Gleeson screened at Sydney Film Festival last year. It didn’t get nearly the attention it deserved then, […]
The Sydney Film Festival may have just wrapped up for another year, but that doesn’t mean you have to give up on quality art-house cinema. Thankfully Palace Films’ next release A Quiet Passion, from acclaimed filmmaker Terence Davies […]