Eleanor Coppola’s mildly auto-biographical feature charmed audiences at the recent Sydney Film Festival. It stars Diane Lane as Anne, a woman at a crossroads in her life. Long married to successful but inattentive movie producer […]
This is the fourth time Palace Cinemas have brought the very welcome Scandinavian Film Festival to our local screens, with a diverse range of films from Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland and Sweden. So by now […]
The end of the world as we know it and chickens having sex… It Comes at Night We’ve had It Follows, now the equally pants-wetting It Comes at Night. In September we’re getting another horror […]
Jude Law (The Young Pope, Closer, The Talented Mr Ripley) stars in the stage production of Obsession, captured live from the Barbican Theatre in London in HD. Ivo van Hove (NT Live: A View from […]
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 […]
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 […]