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. […]
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, […]
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 […]
Our Nic is bruised, battered and bad Movie of the week: Destroyer We’ve had plenty of male bad cops on screen before, but so far no female actors have been prepared to get down and dirty. […]
Based on a Haruki Murakami short story and starring Steven Yeun (The Walking Dead, Okja), BURNING is a gripping psychological study of thwarted love, ambition and obsession. Novelistic in scope, grandeur and impact, and featuring three […]
Sure, the Alliance Française French Film Festival has its fair share of crowd-pleasing arthouse hits and light romantic comedies, but you can see them any time, right? So when the organisers offered a whole bunch of […]
Nicole Kidman – as you’ve never seen her before When a fresh case exposes history from a former investigation, LAPD detective Erin Bell (Nicole Kidman) is forced to face her demons in Destroyer – a […]
Movie of the week: The House That Jack Built This isn’t for everyone. In fact if you’re offended by violence, misogyny, (staged) torture and a white male behaving very badly, stop reading now. Plenty of headlines, […]
Movie of the week: The Guilty If you ever have to dial 000 in an emergency, you’d better hope you don’t get someone like demoted cop Asger Holm (Jacob Cedergren) on the line. Within his first […]
Two movie about the perils of show-biz fame open this week, one of them a misunderstood masterpiece Vox Lux Brady Corbet’s provocative first feature, The Childhood of a Leader astounded critics and festival-goers in 2015, […]