Film Review: Six Months to Salvation (2016)
The best kind of documentaries finish in a different place to where they started. Australian director Lorenzo Benitez’s independently-released debut Six Months to Salvation…
Film Review: Handsome Devil (2016)
All-male private schools have never been a beacon for progressive attitudes, not least when it comes to issues of sexuality. It’s this stone-age mentality that makes it…
Film Review: Berlin Syndrome (2017)
The recent remake of Beauty and the Beast means Stockholm syndrome is all the rage again. But Disney’s live action film isn’t the only…
Film Review: Denial (2016)
Donald Trump and his “fake news” catchcry has recently forced the media and public into a discussion on truth and objectivity. But Trump and…
Film Review: Bitter Harvest (2017)
About twenty minutes into George Meneluk’s Bitter Harvest, you can’t help but feel the film is moving slightly fast. Barely developed characters are killed…
Film Review: Collateral Beauty (2016)
You shouldn’t normally judge a film by its title, but in the case of David Frankel’s Collateral Beauty it wouldn’t actually be a bad…
Film Review: The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble (2015)
Even 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: Sausage Party (2016)
I don’t know if any film has ever made me feel as uncomfortable as Sausage Party, but something tells me that’s the kind of…
Film Review: Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)
It’s crazy to think there was a time when Alfred Hitchcock was perceived to be more of an entertainer than an artist. It’s even…
Film Review: Finding Dory (2016)
It’s comeback season! Last week, it was The Avalanches, returning from 16 years in the musical wilderness. This week, it’s another world-famous Australian icon…