This month, I had the pleasure of attending the opening of the 2024 Russell Hobbs British Film Festival which was screening Steve McQueen’s Blitz, a World War II drama following… Read More
Opening Night: British Film Festival
Category: Reviews
Audrey – MIFF review
Australian black-comedy, Audrey tells the rebellious teenager story, from the point of view of her fed up mother, Ronnie. Ronnie Lipsick (Jackie van Beek) tries desperately to mould her seventeen… Read More
Memoir of a Snail : MIFF review
“Our flames are cellophane, our smoke is cotton wool, and our tears are lube,” Adam Elliot said of his latest stop motion animation feature, Memoir of a Snail, to a… Read More
Left Write Hook – MIFF review
In this groundbreaking documentary about the power of female community, coach Donna Lyon brings us into the ring of her program Left Write Hook, a Victorian based support group for… Read More
Grand Tour review / SFF
Grand Tour feels like when a family member or friend returns from a holiday and sits you down to for the presentation on their good time. While there’s certainly more… Read More
Cuckoo Review / SFF
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
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