Film Review: The Brink (2019)
byDocumentary filmmaker Alison Klayman burst onto the scene with her successful 2012 documentary debut Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry. A few films later and Alison has…
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Film Review: Ad Astra (2019)
byWriting takes time. Sorting out your thoughts and feelings and reactions takes time. But often we see only films just before they’re released and…
Film Review: Animals (2019)
bySince the critical success of her debut feature 52 Tuesdays, Adelaide filmmaker Sophie Hyde has had her fingers in many pies, including this SBS…
Film Review: Good Boys (2019)
byIt feels like 12-year-old me – which was not that long ago – grew up in a different world to today’s kids. We didn’t…
Film Review: It Chapter Two (2019)
byFor the creatively named It Chapter Two, sequel to 2017’s It, director Andy Muschietti, screenwriter Gary Dauberman, and cinematographer Checco Varese all return. This…
Film Review: Midsommar (2019)
byWriter-director Ari Aster is already proving himself to be one of the sharpest voices in contemporary horror. After his impressive directorial debut Hereditary last…
Film Review: Freaks (2018)
byAt seven years old you’d expect Chloe to have a fairly narrow view of the world. There are just some horrors a parent would…
Film Review: Downton Abbey (2019)
byDownton Abbey is a period drama set in early 20th century Yorkshire, popular with grandparents and traditionalists everywhere. The TV series ended in 2015…
Film Review: Angel of Mine (2019)
byA 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)
byIn 2008 Lehman Brothers – the fourth largest investment bank in the USA – collapsed. It was the largest bankruptcy in US history. This…