Local cinemas this week

January 14, 2019

Political junkies have struck it lucky this month – with no less than three major cinema releases (The Front Runner is yet to come) making strong statements on the nature and abuse of power. Movie […]

Loro giveaway

December 20, 2018

Seduction, glamour, corruption, drugs and raucous poolside parties: the life and times of scandal-plagued Silvio Berlusconi have long-demanded a screen depiction. And who else to deliver it than Paolo Sorrentino, the Academy Award-winning director of […]

Local cinemas this week

December 20, 2018

In the week before Christmas, two deliciously decadent costume dramas arrive on our screens Colette We’ve now had two movies this year in which a woman in an unequal partnership has penned works her husband […]

Local cinemas this week

December 5, 2018

Movie of the week: Climax Gasper Noé is a professional provocateur – and his button-pushing works (Irreversible, Love) generally only turn up at film festivals where they can escape our Classification Board’s inevitable response. There […]

Local cinemas this week

November 28, 2018

Two surprisingly tender movies about men open this week: Being one, and learning how… At the multiplex: Creed 2 Ok, so it’s about boxing, and a lot of people don’t like boxing movies, including my dutiful […]

Local cinemas this week

November 21, 2018

The week’s best arthouse release is also it’s most unlikely Widows Steve McQueen is hardly a director you’d expect to make a heist movie, but then Widows, which is co-written by Gone Girl’s Gillian Flynn […]

Cine Latino’s top 5

November 16, 2018

The twenty six new films in this year’s Cine Latino Film Festival at Palace Cinemas include some of the most eagerly awaited critical favourites of the year, a fair smattering of festival award winners as well […]

Cine Latino giveaway

November 6, 2018

After a few years of erratic scheduling by Palace, the annual Cine Latino Film Festival is settling into its November slot and going from strength to strength. By far Australia’s largest festival of Latin American […]

Local cinemas this week

October 22, 2018

A father battles his son’s addiction , a super spooky movie from Britain and another tone-death Aussie misfire. Beautiful Boy Belgian director Felix van Groeningen reduced me to a blubbering wreck with Broken Circle Breakdown, […]

Local cinemas this week

October 22, 2018

The ladies definitely come out on top in two new movies opening this week  A Star Is Born The magnetic star-power presence of you-know-who will probably be enough to ensure this latest retelling (the fourth) of […]

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