Charles Williams opens the doors to Inside
Writer/director Charles Williams is one of Australia’s strongest emerging filmmakers. With a Short Film Palme d’Or under his belt for 2018’s All These Creatures the arrival of his debut full length fe…
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Vincent Miller: The boy from the bush goes Inside
I’m sitting in my poorly airconditioned Melbourne apartment waiting to speak to the superbly talented just seventeen-year-old Vincent Miller. We’re connected via Zoom, and I ask Vincent where he is fr…
Bonus Track is the fantastic romance that queer kids deserve
There is a fairy tale sweetness to Julia Jackman’s queer coming of age film Bonus Track that makes the relatively rote storyline charming rather than grating. Written by Mike Gilbert from a story by J…
Charles Williams’ Inside is top tier Australian cinema
“The worst of men, they’ve got a little bit of good in them and that will be their undoing.” Charles Williams’ brutal and blazing Australian prison drama Inside is underscored by its immense humanism…
Armand defies easy classification but proves Renate Reinsve indispensable
Halfdan Ullmann Tøndel’s debut feature Armand is often inscrutable. A psychological drama with a distinct theatricality wherein reality and the projected interior crises of the characters bleed into e…
Come Away with Me: Miguel Gomes and Grand Tours
Portuguese cineaste Miguel Gomes’ latest film Grand Tour is an odyssey through Asia using a constructed narrative about a couple in 1918 who chase and elude each other through multiple countries. Gome…
Leigh Whannell on Wolf Man and what sets his film apart from other werewolf stories
Australian director Leigh Whannell has taken two of Universal’s classic monsters and put his own spin on them. First, he updated the tale of The Invisible Man in 2020, and this year he takes on the ly…
Walter Salles' I’m Still Here Presents an Extraordinary Fernanda Torres
In I’m Still Here (Ainda estou aqui), Walter Salles takes the true story of the arrest and disappearance of Rubens Paiva (Selton Mello) and creates a potent narrative about courage, resilience, tenaci…
Nadine Whitney on the Australian Films from 2024 That Made Us Come Alive
It has been a difficult year for Australian film with few films making it to cinemas for exhibition. Nevertheless, we cannot give up hope for our stories being told. Making lists is always difficult…
Mati Diop's Dahomey is Elegant and Essential, Poetic and Profound
“I am the trace of the trance… what if they don’t remember me?” – Number 26. Mati Dop knows about ghosts. The multiple spectres haunting cultures and continents. The voices assembled in the dark whic…
Whose Pain is it Anyway? The Monumental and Modest Humanity of A Real Pain
But isn’t everyone in pain somehow. I mean, look at what happened to our families. Look at where we came from. I mean, who isn’t… you know, who isn’t wrought? David Kaplan Jesse Eisenberg’s first fe…
Capturing Memories in Klaudia Reynicke’s Peruvian Drama Reinas (Queens)
Two young Peruvian sisters are about to leave their country forever in 1992 when they unexpectedly reconnect with their absent father. By turns stressful, joyous, generous, funny, and quietly terrify…