2018 Oscar Nominated Short Films (Live & Animated)
bySome of the world’s lesser-known issues are given the limelight in this year’s selection of Oscar-nominated shorts, with most films in the live action…
Academy Awards
90th Oscar Nominations
byAnother early morning rise saw Oscar hopefuls Andy Serkis and Tiffany Haddish announce the nominees for the 90th Annual Academy Awards. The video in…
Film Review: Mustang (2015)
byOne of last year’s Academy Awards Best Foreign Film nominees was Mustang, a stirring portrayal of the yearning for freedom against the constraints of…
Complete list of Academy Award Hosts
byWith each year’s Oscar ceremony comes months worth of commentary over the success (or failure) of the host. As the debate is already heating…
Film Review: Son of Saul (2015)
byWith what would have to be one of the most astonishing debut films of all time – and horrific in a way that is…
Film Review: Theeb (2014)
byTheeb marks the beginning of two different yet equally important things. Firstly it’s the directorial debut of Naji Abu Nowar which marks him as…
Film Review: Trumbo (2015)
byIn the late 1940s Dalton Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) was a screenwriter with a talent that placed him at the vanguard of the Hollywood elite….
Film Review: 45 Years (2015)
byThere’s a quote that gets thrown around by both comedians and pessimists that goes “If marriage didn’t exist would you invent it?” Trying to…
Film Review: Brooklyn (2015)
byThe Oscars are almost in session, and we Australians know all too well what that means: February film releases. The highly-acclaimed Brooklyn arrives on…
Film Review: Sicario (2015)
bySicario (Spanish for ‘hitman’) is another slow-burn, tension-filled thriller for director Denis Villeneuve. Following in the footsteps of the simmering, morally ambivalent Prisoners, the…