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Current Theatrical Releases, Film May 20, 2018 May 20, 2018

Film Review: The Bookshop (2018)

Who wouldn’t like a bookshop in their main street? What kind of sociopath would it take to oppose such an innocent undertaking? These are…

Festivals, Film, Foreign May 20, 2018 May 20, 2018

In Times of Fading Light is a film about two things: a communist party member’s 90th birthday, and his once great party and political…

Is there anything original that can be done with zombies? Films, books, video games and television have all been swarmed with the walking dead…

Current Theatrical Releases, Film May 16, 2018 May 16, 2018

In 2016 in these very pages I wrote about how Deadpool was breaking the dull, factory-like mould of superhero movies. I wondered if audiences…

Current Theatrical Releases, Film May 13, 2018 May 13, 2018

Many films have tried to present motherhood on screen but few of them are willing to portray the darker tinges of it. Yes, pushing…

Midnight Oil: 1984, focuses on the year 1984, a time fans could tell you that the iconic album (no. 5) Red Sails in the…

Endre (Géza Morcsányi) is a withdrawn man. He remembers the active life he used to live when he had two functioning arms and now,…

Nominated at SXSW and selected at Toronto Film Festival 2017, Outside In is a new drama by Lynn Shelton is dominated by the leads Carol (Edie Falco)…

Documentary, Film May 2, 2018 May 2, 2018

Imagine an episode of The Amazing Race, but the directors have edited out all the photo finishes, scrapped the tense music, and lost interest…

The Song Keepers tells the story of The Central Australian Aboriginal Women’s Choir and their journey to Germany to ‘return’ Lutheran hymns to the…