Film Review: That Man from Rio (1964)
Over film history, there have been a number of exceptional figures that have defined their nation’s cinema. There is something about them that screams…
Film Review: Namatjira Project (2017)
Albert Namatjira was one of Australia’s most talented and accomplished artists of the 20th century. His paintings remain, to this day, an authority on…
Film Review: God’s Own Country (2017)
“It’s beautiful here, but lonely,” says Gheorghe (Alec Secareanu), a Romanian migrant who has found work as a farmer in the English countryside. It…
Film Review: Atomic Blonde (2017)
Inspired by the 2012 graphic novel The Coldest City, David Leitch’s film, Atomic Blonde, brings ruthless heroine Lorraine Broughton to the screen in startling…
Film Review: A Ghost Story (2017)
Films about ghosts are usually scary, jumpy and spine-tingling. David Lowery’s latest feature, A Ghost Story, carefully avoids boxing itself within the horror genre…
Film Review: Don’t Tell (2017)
In 2012, then Prime Minister Julia Gillard called for a Royal Commission into the sexual abuse claims levelled against the Catholic Church. Since then,…
Film Review: Raw (2016)
Cannibal films aren’t in any way novel. Prevalent particularly in the ‘70s, the cannibal film only existed to sicken, shock and horrify audiences. In…
Film Review: The Great Wall (2016)
The Great Wall opens with prologue text that gives us some information about the Great Wall of China. It decidedly tells us that there…
Film Analysis: Scorsese’s Cinema of Religion
There is no doubt that Martin Scorsese is most renowned for his Italian-American crime dramas of the ‘70s and ’80s. It would not be surprising…
Film Review: Toni Erdmann (2016)
Toni Erdmann may be the funniest film to hit cinemas in a long time. Its 162-minute runtime is peppered with inappropriate, kinetic jokes and…