I’ve said it many times before, and I’ll say it again – A24 is one of the best film distributors working today. Titles such as Moonlight, Under The Skin, Swiss… Read More
Review: A Ghost Story / Nick
Category: Sydney Film Festival
Review: The Other Side of Hope / SFF / Kena
Often with serious or solemn plotlines, films use humour to lighten the weight of the topic. One such film is The Other Side of Hope from Director Aki Kaurismäki. The… Read More
Review: Good Time / SFF / Nick
Good Time is my favourite film of the 2017 Sydney Film Festival. This is a film that will be in my head for weeks to come, like some sort of… Read More
Review: BLUE / Bill
Climate change and pollution have been widely discussed and argued about as two of the most important issues in today’s world, Karina Holden’s film BLUE looks at these issues from the… Read More
Review: My Life as a Zucchini / SFF / Bill
My Life as a Zucchini (or Courgette, depending on where you live) is an animated feature film by the Swiss filmmaker Claude Barras. The film follows nine-year-old Icare, an orphan… Read More
Review: BIG Time /Bill
Denmark’s Bjarke Ingels has been dubbed by TIME magazine as one the 100 most influential people. Aged 42 he’s the world’s most marketable architect, and in BigTime, he talks about… Read More
Review: Sameblod / SFF / Kena
Sameblod follows the story of Sami (native Scandinavian, also ‘Lappish’) teenager Elle-Marja who wants to go further than what her village Sami school can offer her. She wants to… Read More
Review: Hotel Salvation / Kena
This film was wonderful, to put it plainly. Framed in the lavish State Theatre (which I was late to, as I’d rocked up to the Capitol Theatre 8 minutes before… Read More
Review: Phantom Boy / Kena
J’aime cinema de la France! I apologise to all French people who may be reading this – I have no idea how that is supposed to be spelt or if… Read More
Review: Phantom Boy / SFF / Bill
From Academy-award nominated animators Alain Gagnol and Jean-Loup Felicioli, Phantom Boy tells the story of Leo (voiced by Gaspard Gagnol), a very sick child stuck in hospital who can send… Read More