This teenage buddy movie screened at the Sydney Film Festival. Why? Booksmart The end-of-high-school romp, where the kids go wild/take drugs/drink themselves senseless/have sex and yet still learn something really significant about life is a […]
Movie of the week: The Third Wife Set in Vietnam during the late 19th Century, Ash Mayfair’s exquisite debut feature revels nostalgically in the country’s rural past and its lavish costumes while exploring some of the […]
Few films have afforded the incomparable Juliette Binoche the opportunity to showcase her remarkable range as the gripping new thriller about female desire and identity, Who You Think I Am. Binoche plays Claire, a university […]
The legendary story of Bert Trautmann, Manchester City’s first German goalkeeper, is exquisitely portrayed in this romantic, life-affirming biography. Featuring a marvellous lead performance by David Kross, The Keeper charts the euphoric highs and traumatising lows […]
Winter in the inner west means lots of things: Snuggling under donnas with another warm body, doing the Bay Run in a puffy black jacket and maybe even wishing that climate change would hurry up […]
The Sydney Film Festival has finished, and the first of its in-competition movies hit local screens. It’s one of the best. Movie of the week: Never Look Away Will the Germans ever get over the trauma […]
M is back, but not as you know her Movie of the week: Red Joan For those who only know Judi Dench as James Bond’s steely MI6 boss M, meeting her here as a doddery elderly […]
So that was the climate change election? Um… what happened? Movie of the week: 2040 Despite everyone saying that the future of the planet was the number one issue and at the very top of voter’s […]
Inspired by real events and spanning three eras of German history, the Academy Award-nominated Never Look Away tells the story of a young art student, Kurt (Tom Schilling) who falls in love with fellow student, […]
In a picturesque village in England, Joan Stanley (Judi Dench), lives in contented retirement. Then suddenly her tranquil existence is shattered as she’s shockingly arrested by MI5. For Joan has been hiding an incredible past; […]