Film Review: Words and Pictures (2013)
byWords and Pictures, the latest film from acclaimed Australian director Fred Schepsi, has an intriguing and original premise at the core of its story….
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Film Review: The French Minister (2013)
byThe new film from main-stay of the French cinema, Bertrand Tavernier (In The Electric Mist, Round Midnight), The French Minister is a political satire…
Film Review: Beatriz’s War (2013)
byJuly 14, 2014: This review has been updated from what was originally published on July 10. Timor Leste is one of Australia’s closest international neighbours. But despite…
Film Review: Tim’s Vermeer (2013)
byWho would’ve thought watching paint dry could be so captivating? Like seriously, Penn and Teller’s Tim’s Vermeer is essentially 90 minutes of watching a…
Film Review: Rock The Casbah (2012)
byReleased here mere months following Hany Abu-Assad’s masterpiece Omar – which focused on the Israeli-Palestianin conflict from the Palestinian side – comes Rock The…
Review: National Theatre Live: King Lear (2014)
byStriding on stage at the National Theatre in Sam Mendes‘s new staging of Shakespeare‘s King Lear, Simon Russell Beale’s Lear appears at first shorter than the playwright might…
Film Review: Under the Skin (2014)
byThe premise of Jonathan Glazer’s film, Under the Skin, doesn’t sound like anything new: an alien comes to earth, taking the image of a…
Film Review: Ida (2013)
bySet in early 1960’s Poland, Ida tells the story of an orphaned young novitiate nun, Anna (Agata Tzrebuchowska), who just before taking her vows…
Film Review: The Broken Circle Breakdown (2012)
byFollowing the lives of a free-spirited couple in Belgium is The Broken Circle Breakdown, written and directed by Felix Van Groeningen and based on the play…
Film Review: The Zero Theorem (2014)
byHow do you review a film that completely baffles you and yet entertained you in equal measure? Sometimes you just have to accept that…