FAFA: The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992)
“Interior dramas” became a buzz word in discussions surrounding film funding policies a few years ago. Typified as a genre set in the suburbs,…
Film Review: Submarine (2010)
A coming of age indie comedy seems beyond prevalent these days. How does one go about producing a quirky, left-of-field, distinctively voiced, piece of…
Rum, Shoes and Iranian news
Firstly, the official poster for The Rum Diary has been release. The trailer thankfully looks very promising and stars Johnny Depp as the Hunter…
Film Review: The Help (2011)
Fifty-five years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus, and forty-five years after the Civil…
Show-biz Cautionary Tales
Five films. Five tales of opportunism, faded glory, delusions of grandeur, selling your wife’s womb to the devil, and punishing a child with wardrobe…
Film Review: Gloria: In Her Own Words (2011)
HBO Documentaries, a fairly new branch of the US television cable network are establishing themselves as a leading producer of contemporary documentary films.
Film Review: My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
I have a dirty confession to make. I have never seen a Werner Herzog film. Not even Grizzly Man. I confess this lack of…
Film Review: Love Crime (2010)
Kristin Scott Thomas opens Love Crime with a bellowing laugh. It is a loud awakening, casting instant awareness and intrigue.
FAFA: Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst (2006)
The Favourite Australian Film Assignment continues with Gillian Armstrong’s documentary Unfolding Florence.
Film Review: Red Dog (2011)
Red Dog surrounds the travels of a Kelpie named Red Dog. Set in the early 1970’s, Red Dog settled in the mining town of Dampier…