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 […]
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 […]
After wowing audiences at the opening of the recent British Film Festival, the thoroughly entertaining biopic Colette starring a radiantly feisty Keira Knightley arrives on local screens this month. After marrying a successful Parisian writer known commonly […]
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 […]
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 […]
A critical and audience favourite at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, where it was awarded the Best Director prize, and touted as a major 2019 Oscar contender, Pawel Pawlikowski’s follow-up to the Academy Award-winning Ida […]
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 […]
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 […]
The Girl with the Franchise Complex, the wildest movie of the year and just in time for Armistice Day, a powerful tribute to the men who fought in the trenches The Girl in the Spider’s […]
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 […]