Film Review: A Month of Sundays (2015)
byA Month of Sundays is a film about family, the aging process and moving on. It is a warm and funny film, but with…
Australian Cinema
Film Review: Remembering the Man (2016)
byThe love story between Timothy Conigrave and John Caleo has become quite familiar by now. 2015 marked twenty years since Conigrave’s memoir, Holding the…
Film Review: Pawno (2015)
bySet on a single day in the Melbourne suburb of Footscray and focusing on a number of its more colorful inhabitants, Pawno marks the…
Film Review: Wide Open Sky (2015)
byIf you want to know why the arts are imperative in education, you need not look any further than Wide Open Sky. In this…
Film Review: Sherpa (2015)
by6:45am 18th April 2014. A massive chunk of glacial ice collapsed over the main climbing section of Mt Everest which triggered an avalanche. Fourteen million tonnes…
Article: Lies and Contamination in The Daughter (2015)
byBased on Henrik Ibsen’s play The Wild Duck, The Daughter (directed by Simon Stone) is a brooding and gothic vision of life in rural Australia….
Article: Triumph of her Will – Lydia Lassila and the Sports Documentary.
byAustralians love sport. It’s a part of this nation’s character as indispensable as the ANZACs, casual racism and having a sausage in bread when…
Film Review: The Daughter (2015)
byIn fictional worlds, there are no jolly returns to childhood homes. It can be accepted that, after a long absence, a man now grown…
Film Review: Spear (2015)
bySpear is a non-linear story of a reconciliation of aboriginal heritage within a white man’s society, mostly told through the medium of interpretative dance….
Film Review: The Will to Fly (2016)
byThe Will to Fly is a wonderful documentary which this reviewer walked into without having one iota of the premise, and who quite happily walked…