Film Review: The Look of Silence (2014)
The Look of Silence is the second documentary from director Joshua Oppenheimer to examine the mass genocide in Indonesia in the late 1960s. It…
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Top 10 of 2015
As another year passes, another opportunity is given to reflect back on the year of film and consider what we believe were the best…
Film Review: Honeyland (2019)
For almost sixty years Hatidže has walked and worked the stark, sparse valley and mountain landscape of remote northern Macedonia. We first see her…
Film Review: Aladdin (2019)
Few things got me as excited as seeing the 2019 Disney release schedule which consisted of the following: Mary Poppins Returns, Captain Marvel, Dumbo,…
Film Review: The House That Jack Built (2018)
Across a career that has spanned over forty years and fifteen films Lars von Trier has crafted a body of work that demands strong…
Film Review: Lean on Pete (2017)
Yorkshireman Andrew Haigh wouldn’t be the obvious person to adapt a novel like Lean on Pete by Willy Vlautin, portraying the trials of a…
Film Review: The Party (2017)
Written and directed by Sally Potter, The Party is a black and white art film with several great performances and a lot of thoughts…
Film Review: Sami Blood (2016)
The first feature film by writer-director Amanda Kernell raises subject matter that should be more than a little familiar to Australians. This Swedish director’s…
Film Review: Captain Fantastic (2016)
Foraging and surrounding itself in the forest of the Pacific North West, and with what feels like some notes on River Phoenix’s home-schooled upbringing…
Article: Offshore Contention – Eva Orner’s Chasing Asylum (2016)
It was never going to be particularly pleasant watching a documentary about Australia’s much maligned asylum seeker policy but even going in with expectations…