Tag: film review

Robert De Niro is the eponymous Irishman in this Martin Scorsese directed film, but the only relevance of his Irishness…

The Palace Cinemas British Film Festival is one of the best film festivals hosted in Sydney, with almost every film…

Climax When I tell people about Gaspar Noé’s films (likely often enough to constitute a social faux pas), I like…

It hits hard and leaves bruises. Reviewing films at a festival, especially one as packed as the MIFF, you remember…

Though its characters lack motivation, Nic Gorman’s Human Traces is a finely executed and taught thriller. Nic Gorman’s first full…

Less thinking, more feeling. ‘Don’t think. Feel!!!’ advises the poster for Takashi Miike’s The Mole Song: Hong Kong Capiccio. It’s…

American directors could learn a thing or two from Mouly Surya. On a desolate landscape in Indonesia where the sun…

The 2017 Melbourne International Film Festival has arrived and, as usual, picking from the gargantuan list of films is an…

Based on the 1865 novella Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Russian author Nikolai Leskov, 2017’s  Lady Macbeth is a dark…

A Ghost Story is a haunting and enigmatic new love story directed by David Lowery (Pete’s Dragon, Ain’t Them Bodies…

I Am Not Your Negro is the poignant Oscar-nominated documentary that brings to life the words and work of one…

The Nile Hilton Incident is a dark and politically engaged Egyptian film noir following the story of a corrupt cop…

The Party, written and directed by Sally Potter (Orlando, The Man Who Cried), has been described as “a comedy wrapped…

Hotel Coolgardie shows what it really feels like to wake in fright. Even though its director is male, Pete Gleeson’s…