Film Review: Marina Abramović in Brazil: The Space In Between (2016)
Marina Abramović came to the attention of many in The Artist is Present, the 2012 documentary that chronicled her retrospective exhibition at MoMA in…
Review: National Theatre Live: Angels in America (2017)
“In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we’ve left behind, and dreaming ahead.” – Harper Pitt, Angels in…
Film Review: The Light Between Oceans (2016)
Each day we make choices. Perhaps they are mostly simple choices, but they are choices nonetheless. Sometimes we are forced to summon our inner…
MDFF Review: You Better Take Cover (2015)
Odds are that if you are an Australian, you are very familiar with the 1981 Men at Work song ‘Down Under’. Be it at…
Film Review: Remembering the Man (2016)
The love story between Timothy Conigrave and John Caleo has become quite familiar by now. 2015 marked twenty years since Conigrave’s memoir, Holding the…
Film Review: Sisters (2015)
Tina Fey. Amy Poehler. Those two factors alone are usually enough. For anything. Be it separately or together. Be it in a series of…
Film Review: Holding the Man (2015)
In 1970s Melbourne Timothy Conigrave (Ryan Corr) sees John Caleo (Craig Stott) playing a game of football on the school oval. Tim’s attraction is…
MIFF14: Mommy (2014)
I’ll admit it now, I’m a Xavier Dolan novice. Mommy is only the second film that I’ve seen of this French/Canadian wunderkind, and the…
Film Review: Into the Woods (2014)
Strange things happen in the woods. At any given moment in Rob Marshall‘s adaptation of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine‘s musical Into the Woods,…
Film Review: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)
Chevy Chase returns as Clark Griswald in the third instalment of the National Lampoon’s Vacation series.