Film Review: The Help (2011)
Fifty-five years after Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus, and forty-five years after the Civil…
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Show-biz Cautionary Tales
Five films. Five tales of opportunism, faded glory, delusions of grandeur, selling your wife’s womb to the devil, and punishing a child with wardrobe…
Film Review: Gloria: In Her Own Words (2011)
HBO Documentaries, a fairly new branch of the US television cable network are establishing themselves as a leading producer of contemporary documentary films.
Film Review: My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
I have a dirty confession to make. I have never seen a Werner Herzog film. Not even Grizzly Man. I confess this lack of…
Film Review: Love Crime (2010)
Kristin Scott Thomas opens Love Crime with a bellowing laugh. It is a loud awakening, casting instant awareness and intrigue.
FAFA: Unfolding Florence: The Many Lives of Florence Broadhurst (2006)
The Favourite Australian Film Assignment continues with Gillian Armstrong’s documentary Unfolding Florence.
Roman Polanski’s Carnage Trailer
Just after I posted the picture of the French poster art for Roman Polanski’s upcoming Carnage, a trailer is released. Talk about keeping it…
Film Review: Red Dog (2011)
Red Dog surrounds the travels of a Kelpie named Red Dog. Set in the early 1970’s, Red Dog settled in the mining town of Dampier…
FAFA: Strange Planet (1999)
It seems that the first two films I watched for this assignment have a common theme. Claudia Karvan. This is unsurprising, as it is…
FAFA: High Tide (1987)
Released in 1987, Gillian Armstrong’s High Tide focuses on three generations of women. Lillie (Judy Davis) is a backup singer for an Elvis impersonator…