Film Review: Voyage of the Southern Sun (2017)
byIf you happened to hear about a circumnavigation of the globe by boat plane a bit over a year ago, there’s a good chance…
Documentary
Film Review: Zach’s Ceremony (2016)
byAustralian cinema can now lay claim on having made its own version of Boyhood. In 2009 Aaron Petersen began the ten year journey of…
Film Review: The Eagle Huntress (2016)
byAround the time of International Women’s Day, this Australian release is rather perfectly timed. Documentary The Eagle Huntress, directed by Otto Bell, narrated by Daisy Ridley, and…
Film Review: David Stratton: A Cinematic Life (2017)
byRemember that day when At the Movies finished on television and there was no more David and Margaret? It left a dark hole indeed. Their…
Film Review: The Family (2016)
byWhen much of our media is dominated by fad and ‘false news’, it is quite interesting to see a film about a truly false…
Film Review: The Coming War On China (2016)
byThe Coming War on China is a dry but humane look at the politics of war by journalist John Pilger, his 60th film for ITV, a free…
Film Review: Le Ride (2016)
byIt seems impossible, living in a nation so inured with its sporting heroes that the names of the first team to tackle the Tour…
Film Review: The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (2015)
byEven if you know nothing about classical music, it’s likely you’ve heard of Yo-Yo Ma. With more than ninety albums, seventeen Grammys, a Simpsons…
Film Review: Gimme Danger (2016)
byThere can’t be many people more revered in the history of rock and roll than Iggy Pop and his band The Stooges. A living…
Film Review: Dancer (2016)
byAward winning director and producer Steven Cantor takes us on a journey through the life of controversial “bad boy ballerina” Sergei Polunin in this…