Film Review: Ella (2016)
Not to be confused with Elle, the hard to watch rape revenge film from Paul Verhoeven which is out in cinemas at the same…
Film Review: Joe Cinque’s Consolation (2016)
In 2004 Australian author Helen Gardner published Joe Cinque’s Consolation. Gardner’s seminal work reported on events that happened in Canberra in 2004, when Anu…
Film Review: Inferno (2016)
To steal a quote from Ben “Yatzee” Croshaw – Dante’s Inferno is history’s first recorded work of self-insert fan fiction. Born 750 years ago,…
Film Review: Francofonia (2015)
In the historical community there’s a joke that all of Russian history can be summed up in five words: ‘But then it got worse’….
Film Review: Zero Days (2016)
‘War. War never changes’ comes the saying that begins every instalment of the Fallout games. It’s a strange state of affairs that the most…
Film Review: Under the Shadow (2016)
The Iran-Iraq war started in September of 1980 and lasted eight years. An estimated one million people died in a war which saw Saddam…
Film Review: The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years (2016)
Over a period of four years The Beatles went from a group of four Liverpool youths playing in the backrooms of pubs to changing…
Film Review: Spin Out (2016)
Small town Australia can be a strange place. The long stretches of distance and landscape breeds a distinct kind of person who anyone that…
Film Review: La Belle Saison (2015)
La Belle Saison is French for ‘summertime’, that time of year with the radiating sun and the slow lazy afternoons. It literally means ‘the…
Film Review: Girl Asleep (2015)
Here’s one for you: what happens when you mix Wes Anderson, 1970s Australia, Napoleon Dynamite, coming-of-age drama and the Mighty Boosh? It’s impossible to…