Film Review: Storm Boy (2019)
byBased on Colin Thiele’s children’s book, which gave us the Australian classic from 1976, Shawn Seet’s remake of Storm Boy is a decent adaptation which…
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Film Review: Final Portrait (2017)
byIn the mid-20th century, Swiss-Italian artist Alberto Giacometti was one of the leading proponents of the surrealist movement. You may well have seen some…
Film Review: Highly Strung (2015)
byScott Hicks cemented his name on the film scene when he directed Geoffrey Rush as the manic pianist David Helfgott in the Oscar winning…
Article: Lies and Contamination in The Daughter (2015)
byBased on Henrik Ibsen’s play The Wild Duck, The Daughter (directed by Simon Stone) is a brooding and gothic vision of life in rural Australia….
Film Review: The Daughter (2015)
byIn fictional worlds, there are no jolly returns to childhood homes. It can be accepted that, after a long absence, a man now grown…
Film Review: Holding the Man (2015)
byIn 1970s Melbourne Timothy Conigrave (Ryan Corr) sees John Caleo (Craig Stott) playing a game of football on the school oval. Tim’s attraction is…
Film Review: The Best Offer (2013)
byA superficial scrutiny of The Best Offer might assert it to be a slightly unpalatable story of love-across the-age-divide between Virgil Oldman (Geoffrey Rush), successful antique art auctioneer with his own priceless collection of female portraits, and Claire Ibbetson (Sylvia Hoeks), twenty something agoraphobic orphan of life-long antique collectors.
MIFF Review: The Eye of the Storm (2011)
byAs my MIFF intentions project continues, I have finally gotten around to writing up last Saturday nights world premiere of The Eye of the…
Film Review: The King’s Speech (2010)
byBy James Madden. Viewed 01.01.11 It’s good to be a King! …or so the saying goes. But for George VI, or “Bertie” as we…