Film Review: Locusts (2019)
If there’s one thing the Australian film industry is great at, it’s turning our gaze inwards to this country’s dirty underbelly. Australia loves stories…
Film Review: The Rise of Jordan Peterson (2019)
Offering a rare and intimate peak into one of the most interesting men of our age, Patricia Marcia’s The Rise of Jordan Peterson is…
Film Review: The Eulogy (2018)
At the age of 54, destitute and alone, Geoffrey Tozer died in his rented Melbourne home. In a stinging 45-minute obituary Paul Keating, a long-term…
Film Review: Green Light (2019)
“I question the wisdom of this film” says the lead of Ned Donohoe’s important new documentary. Medical cannabis becoming legal is only a matter…
Film Review: The Souvenir (2019)
In French ‘souvenir’ means ‘to remember’. Joanna Hogg’s latest film – executive produced by none other than Martin Scorsese – seems to embrace both…
Film Review: Birds of Passage (2018)
In the current climate there’s no shortage of crime epics or drug dramas. Narcotrafficking is the storytelling flavour of the month – Netflix seems…
Film Review: Angel of Mine (2019)
A loose remake of the 2008 French film L’empreinte de l’ange, director Kim Farrant‘s second feature relocates this twisting tale to the suburbs of…
Review: National Theatre Live: The Lehman Trilogy (2019)
In 2008 Lehman Brothers – the fourth largest investment bank in the USA – collapsed. It was the largest bankruptcy in US history. This…
Film Review: Dragged Across Concrete (2018)
Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99 made S. Craig Zahler the cool new kid on the block of the genre scene. Returning…
Film Review: Maniac Farmer (2019)
The soul of the 1980s slasher is imbibed in Matthew Williams’ Maniac Farmer. Set in rural Kentucky, Williams directed, shot, wrote, produced and edited…