Local cinemas this week

September 5, 2019

Child endangerment features in two releases this week, one a chilly remake of a true original, the other a bloated and unnecessary sequel. Top pick: Angel of Mine Noomi Rapace, from the original Danish The Girl […]

Local cinemas this week

August 29, 2019

It never rains, it pours, there are just so great movies this week, too many… You can read about The Nightingale and Dogman here, but if there’s ever been a time when you really should check […]

Local cinemas this week

August 21, 2019

A whole lot of love in “Once Upon a Time…” or a long stern lecture on Australian racism. Now what would you choose to see? Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood So much has already […]

Local cinemas this week

August 5, 2019

History is written by the victors. So what should we make of this version? Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan Kriv Stenders’ (Red Dog) new film is undoubtedly one of the year’s big local […]

Local cinemas this week

July 30, 2019

Movie of the week: Who You Think I Am “On the internet, no one knows you’re a dog.” So goes that old well-known New Yorker cartoon showing two conniving canines at the keyboard. Though to even […]

Local cinemas this week

July 23, 2019

Football players being booed is nothing new… Movie of the week: The Keeper Back in the early 50s Manchester City’s ace goalie Bert Trautmann got the same aggressively hostile reception as Adam Goodes, only more so. […]

Local cinemas this week

June 3, 2019

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 […]

Local cinemas this week

May 23, 2019

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 […]

Local cinemas this week

April 15, 2019

We don’t see nearly enough Asian movies in our arthouse cinemas. Why? Movie of the week: Burning Like many disaffected millennials the world over, Jong-su (Ah-in Yoo) is underemployed and listless. He works as a delivery […]

Local cinemas this week

April 9, 2019

Post-war hanky-panky, and post-capitalism explained The Aftermath Put two of Hollywood’s hunkiest hot properties together in a handsome period drama and you can be pretty sure that soon enough they’ll get horizontal. Though when they […]

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