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. […]
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 […]
Yes, there is something else on other than that blonde white chick running about in a silly superman suit. Two very fine films indeed… Multiplex pick: Hotel Mumbai Aussie filmmaker Anthony Maras opens his gripping account of […]
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, […]
The Alliance Française French Film Festival arrives in Sydney for the 30th time on March 5, just a bit later than last year. It’s the largest of all celebrations of French cinema outside France, and […]
Hotel Mumbai is based on the true story of the devastating terrorist attack on the Taj Mahal Palace Hotel in 2008. The terrifying assault brings together the guests and staff of the luxurious hotel including […]
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, […]