Film Review: Hero (2019)
byKicking off this year’s Russian Resurrection Film Festival, Hero is a “spy-thriller” about Russian sleeper cells all over the world awaiting instructions from a shadowy government…
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MIFF 2015 Film Review: Phoenix (2014)
byChristian Petzold has created a moving and intriguing tale of betrayal and reclaimed identity in Phoenix, a fascinating noir mystery that should prove one of…
CLOSED: Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 2014 Giveaway
byCourtesy of the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival, Film Blerg is giving away 10 double passes see a screening of your choice. AFFFF2014 screens around…
MIFF 2013: Closed Curtain (2013)
byFollowing the documentary This Is Not A Film, Closed Curtain marks director Jafar Panahi’s second movie (co-directed by Kambuzia Partovi) since a six year home imprisonment sentence and twenty year ban on film making was imposed on him by the Iranian government.
Russian Resurrection Film Festival: Metro (2013)
byUpon its local release earlier this year, Metro was billed as Russia’s first Hollywood-style disaster movie. For better or worse, this is a fittingly accurate summary as to what audiences can expect from director Anton Megerdichev’s attempt to transplant mayhem and destruction of the American variety to the subways of Moscow.
AFFFF Review: Camille Rewinds (2012)
byWritten, directed by and starring Noémie Lvovsky, Camille Rewinds tells the story of an out of work actress who gets by as an extra dying in gory horror movies.
News: First Look at the 23rd Melbourne Queer Film Festival
byPlaying from the 14-24 March, 2013, the Melbourne Queer Film Festival has announced some of the films that will be included in this year’s…
The Other Film Festival Opening Night
byAn appropriately diverse crowd gathered at Arts House in the North Melbourne Town Hall for the opening night of the Other Film Festival. A…
MIFF Wrap Up
by17 days of film goodness is now over. Despite seeing 7 films this year, which is more than I have seen before at MIFF,…
MIFF Review: The Hollywood Complex (2011)
byEvery January to April, thousands of actors from across the world come to Hollywood for what is known as pilot season. The Hollywood Complex…