As recently seen at the Melbourne International Film Festival, from Lilly Sokolowski comes a review of American filmmaker Annie Baker’s feature film directorial debut about the coming-of-age of both a daughter and mother: Janet Planet. … More MIFF Review: Janet Planet
As recently seen at the Melbourne International Film Festival, from Simran Shroff comes a review of American filmmaker Aaron Schimberg’s new tragicomedy, in which a man with neurofibromatosis, played by Sebastian Stan, contends with becoming and facing: A Different Man. … More MIFF Review: A Different Man
As recently seen at the Melbourne International Film Festival, from Chloe Stephenson-Brown comes a review of We Were Dangerous, first-time feature director Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu’s feminist dramedy about so-called delinquent teenage girls in 1950s New Zealand. … More MIFF Review: We Were Dangerous
As recently seen at the Melbourne International Film Festival, from Adeline Williams comes a review of Dìdi, a uniquely Asian American and aughts flavoured coming-of-age film directed by Sean Wang in his feature debut. … More MIFF Review: Dìdi
As recently seen at the Melbourne International Film Festival, from Johnny Hill comes a review of The Shrouds, Canadian director David Cronenberg’s latest body horror feature, though one perhaps much more sensitive than his past work, with a focus on grief and how both loved ones’ deaths and technology leave us in their wake. … More MIFF Review: The Shrouds
Currently showing at the Melbourne International Film Festival, from Lachie Carroll comes a review of La Cocina, Mexican director Alonso Ruizpalacios’ kitchen drama about a New York restaurant and its workers, or one of the freshest entries in the current wave of culinary cinema. … More MIFF Review: La Cocina
Currently showing at the Melbourne International Film Festival and in cinemas Australia wide from August 29th, from Lucy Beltrami comes a review of and personal reflections in light of I Saw the TV Glow, American director Jane Schoenbrun’s sophomore spooky drama. … More MIFF Review: I Saw the TV Glow
The cool celebration of cinema that is the Melbourne International Film Festival is back this August, running from the 8th until the 25th in cinemas and from the 9th until the 25th online. Here’s a rundown of the details, from the program to tickets, including a few useful tips on how to get MIFFed. … More MIFF 2024 Information & Tips For Cheap Tix
From Johnny Hill comes a review of Bertrand Bonello’s sweeping sci-fi drama about the universality of fear and it and technology’s consequences for human connection: The Beast. … More The Beast Review
To exposit, or not to exposit? That is the question, answered in this essay by Alexander Martin about balancing exposition and subtlety, and the exceptions that prove the rule of less exposition often being more: character moments. … More Character Moments: Balancing Subtlety and Exposition
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