Film Review: Ella (2016)
Written by Simon Storey Originally published 20 November 2016 Not to be confused with Elle, the hard to watch rape revenge film from Paul…
Film Review: Joe Cinque’s Consolation (2016)
Written by Simon Storey Originally published 19 October 2016 In 2004 Australian author Helen Gardner published Joe Cinque’s Consolation. Gardner’s seminal work reported on…
Film Review: Inferno (2016)
Written by Simon Storey Originally published 14 October 2016 To steal a quote from Ben “Yatzee” Croshaw – Dante’s Inferno is history’s first recorded…
Film Review: Francofonia (2015)
Written by Simon Storey Originally published 11 October 2016 In the historical community there’s a joke that all of Russian history can be summed…
Film Review: Zero Days (2016)
Written by Simon Storey Originally published 10 October 2016 ‘War. War never changes’ comes the saying that begins every instalment of the Fallout games….
Film Review: Under the Shadow (2016)
Written by Simon Storey Originally published 3 October 2016 The Iran-Iraq war started in September of 1980 and lasted eight years. An estimated one…
Film Review: The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years (2016)
Written by Simon Storey Originally published 20 September 2016 Over a period of four years The Beatles went from a group of four Liverpool…
Film Review: Spin Out (2016)
Written by Simon Storey Originally published 20 September 2016 Small town Australia can be a strange place. The long stretches of distance and landscape…
Film Review: La Belle Saison (2015)
Written by Simon Storey Originally published 14 September 2016 La Belle Saison is French for ‘summertime’, that time of year with the radiating sun…
Film Review: Girl Asleep (2015)
Written by Simon Storey Originally published 4 September 2016 Here’s one for you: what happens when you mix Wes Anderson, 1970s Australia, Napoleon Dynamite,…