MOVIE

Ellis Park review – prioritises heart over clarity

Therapy, as we know, can take a number of different forms. For Australian multi-instrumentalists and Nick Cave cohort, Warren Ellis, this…

9 months ago

Hen – first-look review | Little White Lies

The first image of György Pálfi’s Hen – an extended close-up on a chicken’s cloaca as she lays an egg – might take…

9 months ago

Ghost Trail review – subtle to a fault

Jonathan Millet’s Ghost Trail played at the Cannes Film Festival a full year before Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or-winning It Was Just…

9 months ago

A Big Bold Beautiful Journey review – Kogonada…

Early into the namesake for A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, David (Colin Farrell) and Sarah (Margot Robbie) venture back in time to…

9 months ago

Steve review – OTT in all respects

When an actor wins a big award, or in the case of Cillian Murphy, the biggest award, the pressure mounts when…

9 months ago

From Ground Zero: Stories from Gaza review – a…

For anyone that has paid even a modicum of attention to the daily images coming out of Palestine, the scenes that…

9 months ago

Spinal Tap II: The End Continues review –…

It’s sad to have to admit but a certain two word review came to mind while watching Rob Reiner’s belated and…

9 months ago

The Fence – first-look review

A period piece inspired by her own childhood as the daughter of a French colonial official in Africa, Claire Denis’s first…

10 months ago

Below The Clouds – first-look review

If one goes into Below the Clouds looking for the dramatic eruptions of similarly themed films such as Fire of Love and Dante’s Peak,…

10 months ago

Dead Man’s Wire – first-look review

Anti-heroes make for compelling subjects, particularly in a world as unjust as the one we live in, and 1970s American cinema…

10 months ago