From Scott Day comes a review of one of this year’s, and perhaps this century’s, most challenging and controversial films, Australian writer and director Andrew Dominik’s (fictional) Marilyn Monroe biopic: Blonde. Starring Ana de Armas. … More Blonde Review
From Jordan Low, a review of sporadic filmmaker Todd Field’s 2006 American romantic thriller, Little Children. Part three of a three-part series examining films to do with love and intersecting relationships in the modern world. … More A Retrospective Review: Little Children (2006)
From Madeleine McDonald materialises a second review of Aussie auteur George Miller’s romantic fantasy: Three Thousand Years of Longing. Read on to find out if it was everything she wished for. … More Three Thousand Years of Longing Review
From Jordan Low, a review of Andrew Haigh’s romantic 2011 British drama: Weekend. Part two of a three-part series examining films to do with love and intersecting relationships in the modern world. … More A Retrospective Review: Weekend (2011)
From Jordan Low comes a review of Edward Yang’s 1994 Taiwanese comedy, A Confucian Confusion. Part one of a three-part series examining films to do with love and intersecting relationships in the modern world. … More A Retrospective Review: A Confucian Confusion (1994)
The King is back in more ways than one. Still “in cinemas now” three months after release, from Madeleine McDonald comes a review of Aussie showman Baz Luhrmann’s glitzy and grimy biopic: Elvis. … More Elvis Review
From Jordan Low comes a review and ranking of American filmmaker Sofia Coppola’s entire directed feature filmography, from Lost in Translation to On the Rocks. Following the news yesterday that she’s lined up her next addition to it. … More The Films Of Sofia Coppola Reviewed & Ranked
From Dahlia D’Onghia comes a review of a documentary film from MIFF that sums itself up: Age of Rage – The Australian Punk Revolution. Read on though to find out if the film is punk as or more of a little punk, all the rage or rage-inducing, or, y’know, somewhere in between. … More MIFF Review: Age of Rage – The Australian Punk Revolution
No longer playing at MIFF but releasing wide theatrically on September 15th, Daniel Snowden reviews Brett Morgen’s latest musician focused documentary that’s not just a concert film: Moonage Daydream, as seen in IMAX. Bowie’s back on the big screen, baby. … More MIFF Review: Moonage Daydream
To mark the opening of David Cronenerg’s Crimes of the Future’s exclusive theatrical run at Cinema Nova, here’s a second review of it from us, this time by Scott Day. The film may be polarising in general, but so far we’ve only had good things to report. … More Crimes of the Future Review
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