Cuckoo harkens back to a simpler time for horror movies, a time when villains would laugh maniacally, when blood looked suspiciously like tomato sauce and when Mum and Dad were… Read More
Cuckoo Review / SFF
Category: Reviews
With Love, From Hilde opens German Film Festival
For the Opening Night of the 2024 German Film Festival in Sydney, Palace Norton Street welcomed German director Andreas Dresen to screen his latest film With Love, From Hilde,… Read More
Alreadymade / Antenna
Was one of the most influential artworks of the 20th century plagiarised? In Alreadymade this question looms over ‘Fountain,’ a groundbreaking 1917 artwork attributed to Marcel Duchamp. With the help… Read More
Review: Old Narcissus / MGFF
Old Narcissus, directed and written by Tsuyoshi Shôji, begins with the apathetic but beautiful Leo (Mizuishi Atomu) spanking the 74-year-old Yamazaki (Tamura Taijiro), accompanied with playful tango music. Drenched in… Read More
Girls Don’t Cry / MGFF
Every baby Sapphic dream involves some sort of escapade to run away or a road trip or to kiss a pretty girl surrounded by fairy lights. Girls Don’t Cry sets… Read More
Master Gardener – contains spoilers
This review contains spoilers for the film Master Gardener. By Harry Gay Paul Schrader concludes his three-movie exegesis on the American soul with Master Gardener, a complicated film that proves… Read More
FOE
If you’re anything like me, the on-screen pairing of Saoirse Ronan and Paul Mescal is enough to pique your interest in Foe. Garth Davis’ (Lion, Mary Magdalene) latest film features… Read More
The Old Oak / Cunard British Film Festival
Nominated for the 2023 Palme d’Or and rumoured to be the renowned director’s last film (and at 87 years old who can blame the guy), Ken Loach’s new film The… Read More
Everything Will Be Fine In The End
Well this one was a wild ride. Everything Will Be Fine In The End (2023, written, directed and scored by Joe Bartone II) centers a wayward group of… friends???… Read More
Review: Sick of Myself
In a world where 15 minutes of fame is not enough, what measures is one willing to take to get the attention they “deserve”? That’s a question director, Kristoffer Borgli… Read More