A bittersweet Palestinian comedy about identity, a rollicking jaunt up the Australian coast with a young Errol Flynn and a violent boxing drama set in a Thai prison Movie of the week: Wajib: The Wedding Invitation Annemarie […]
The brain sees what it wants to see. In this expertly constructed British spookfest, Professor Philip Goodman (Andy Nyman), renowned sceptic and supernatural debunker, is given three case files of baffling paranormal activity that promise […]
An attractive adaption of a classic Russian play and a queasily compelling true crime thriller The Seagull When Chekhov first staged The Seagull in St Peterburgh in 1896, it was greeted with catcalls and the […]
We’re at the multiplex this week, with a goth girl with special powers destined to save the world and a prehistoric teenage boy who teaches a wolf to play fetch. Harmony It’s near impossible not […]
A harrowing but important new French drama previewing this weekend takes us to an uncomfortable place Custody Weirdly, earlier this year I nominated the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival’s Top 5 and didn’t include its best […]
It’s the most ambitious and the nicest Aussie movie in years. But is nice enough? Ladies in Black Bruce Beresford is one of Australia’s few remaining old-school film directors still working, and his latest work, an […]
Nobody wants to be ordinary From Bart Layton (The Imposter) and starring Evan Peters (The X-Men Series), Barry Keoghan (Dunkirk, The Killing of the Sacred Deer) and Anne Dowd (The Handmaid’s Tale) comes the extraordinary […]
The astonishing, break-out critical discovery of the Venice Film Festival, where it was awarded Best Director and Best Debut Film, Xavier Legrand’s heart-stopping French drama Custody charts a family’s struggles with the fallout of divorce, […]
Gus Van Sant triumphantly returns with “one of his best” After Portland slacker John Callahan (Joaquin Phoenix) nearly loses his life in a car accident, the last thing he intends to do is give up […]
Two outstanding docos, two amazing men… McQueen There’s a such an incredible wealth of details in this exhaustive, (exhausting!) portrait of Lee Alexander McQueen, the prodigiously talented British fashion designer who hung himself at the age of […]