Film Review: Journey Beyond Fear (2018)
byJourney Beyond Fear is an extraordinary debut feature documentary from filmmaker Robyn Hughan, a passion project filmed over seven years as 14-year-old Zahra and…
Australian Cinema
Film Review: Backtrack Boys (2018)
byThe media loves to tell tales about young people causing trouble and is quick to categorise groups of youths as gangs or to assume…
Film Review: Reaching Distance (2018)
byYou’re not supposed to start your film career with mind-bending psychological thrillers that warp time, space, reality and memory into a thematically-dense narrative. But…
Film Review: 1% (2017)
byIn his debut feature, Australian director Stephen McCallum has explored the violent frontiers of the wild west, but not in the usual sense. 1%,…
Film Review: In Like Flynn (2018)
byBased on the novel Beam Ends by Errol Flynn, In Like Flynn is a memoir of the adventures and life of the man before…
Lost Gully Road – An Interview with Donna McRae
byThere’s a sense of deja-vu as I park the car on the way to interview Donna McRae for her new film Lost Gully Road….
Film Review: Jirga (2018)
byBefore this review properly starts, a Public Service Announcement for the filmgoing community. Do not – under any circumstances – watch the trailer for…
Film Review: Ladies in Black (2018)
byIt was the mid 1990s when prolific director Bruce Beresford first read Madeleine St John‘s novel The Women in Black, so almost a quarter of a century…
Film Review: The Merger (2018)
byThere are a few Australian traditions which are at once unifying and divisive – small rituals which exclude some and divide us into “teams” and…
Film Review: Wayne (2018)
byReal and unexaggerated ‘Rags to Riches’ tales are a very rare find, so to come across one that not only happened in rural Australia…