Review: Blowfly Park (2014)
byIn Swedish film Blowfly Park, director and screenwriter Jens Östberg has crafted a restrained and stylish portrait of an ordinary man grappling with the…
Foreign
Film Review: Out of Nature (2014)
byStable job. Nice home. Loving wife. Healthy son. It’s a tough life. To get away from it all, Martin (Ole Giæver) embarks on a…
Film Review: Far From Men (2014)
byIt is 1954 and the Algerian War is building momentum as it begins to reach the lives of civilians. Trouble is brought to the…
Film Review: Zero Motivation (2014)
byThe first feature film from writer/director Talya Lavie can best be summarized by M*A*S*H crossed with Lena Dunham’s Girls, with a spoonful of The…
Film Review: Gemma Bovery (2014)
byWith a new Madame Bovary set to hit screens in a couple of months, Australian audiences are first treated to a French rendering of…
Film Review: The Cut (2014)
byWWI. Inarguably the greatest moral atrocity committed during a period of great moral atrocities was the genocide of the Armenians by the Ottoman Empire….
Film Review: The Dark Valley (2014)
byPosing as a photographer, a lone horseman rides into a remote village somewhere in the Austrian Alps. Going simply by the name Greider (Sam…
Film Review: Wild Tales (2014)
byWild Tales, written and directed by Damián Szifron, certainly lives up to its name. It was nominated as Argentina’s entry for the Best Foreign…
Film Review: Age of Cannibals (Zeit der Kannibalen) (2014)
byIt’s hard to know what exactly you’d except from a film called Age of Cannibals. Is it some kind of B-grade horror schlock? A…
Film Review: Stations of the Cross (2014)
byStations of the Cross begins with one of the most fascinating and alienating opening pieces of dialogue put to film of recent memory. A…