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Powered by JustWatch A bittersweet film, End of the Century tells of a reunion and the attempt to find the middle ground between romantic possibility and our limited reality. Sometimes, the peop…
Powered by JustWatch First things first: I don’t like most Christmas movies. No, I’m not a fan of Miracle on 34th Street, A Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation, Home Alone, The Santa Clause, Lo…
Powered by JustWatch An age has passed since we last saw The Croods (2013) on-screen. Its modest box-office take and rocky (pun intended) reception, not to mention countless production delays a…
As a female Pakistani artist, living in Australia, the web series This Is What An Iraqi Looks Like is just what I needed to watch this year. Created by HAJER, founder of the Iraqi Diaspora Creatives N…
Before Wednesday the 9th of December, I had never been to anything close to a film festival. I’ve seen my fair share of “festival darlings”, but I’ve always wanted to experience being on the ground-fl…
Powered by JustWatch Wonder Woman 1984 (or, as is titled in the credits WW84) takes place in the height of eighties America. Greed, for lack of a better word, is good, and as a social currency,…
Powered by JustWatch Content warning: Promising Young Woman is a film that discusses and has depictions of sexual assault. While this usually would be a reason to avoid the content, I do highly…
Powered by JustWatch Deep in the background, as the obligatory Aussie film drone shot opens Jocelyn Moorhouse’s masterful Western The Dressmaker, you can faintly hear the iconic whistle of Ennio…
Content Warning: This post contains discussions of death, suicide, and mental illness. Not dead yet. This has become my go-to response when people ask me ‘how I’m going?’ After a spate of heightened…
Powered by JustWatch It has been thirty years since the release of The Godfather Part III. At the time, the film received mixed-to-positive reviews, with critics favouring Pacino’s performance b…
Powered by JustWatch Directed by David Fincher, and written by his late father Jack, Mank stars Gary Oldman as, well, Mank. Or correctly, writer Herman Mankiewicz, who is the credited co-writer…
In writer/director Wayne Groom’s recount of the making of Maslin Beach, he mentions that ‘in 1983, when I set down my future goals, my major goal was to produce, write and direct a feature film’. Read…