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Directors Filipa Reis and João Miller Guerra Portuguese drama Légua sits comfortably in the slow cinema canon. It is a meditative film that combines daily ritual, tradition, and generational shifts al…
Because We Have Each Other begins by giving a warm welcome to all who are watching. Someone off camera is being told to get off the toilet, an eager rush to get a family in place to record audio for t…
PRESS RELEASE The stunning original soundtrack of Perth Festival’s 2023 special opening spectacle Djoondal is now available on all streaming platforms. The six-track collection of brand-new Noongar…
Disney live action remakes are curious beasts. They tend to fall into two categories – remakes of the beloved animations (such as Mulan, The Jungle Book, Dumbo and so on) or character spin-offs such a…
Consider a message in a bottle. There's something romantic about a message in a bottle – written to communicate with a stranger in a far-off land, sealed with the hope of connection, and tossed i…
This review contains mention of mental health issues, suicide, sexual assault, and drug use. In 1996 the controversial film Kids directed by Larry Clark and scripted by Harmony Korine burst into cine…
This review contains slight spoilers. Over the year, there have been a handful of interesting art crime documentaries: Orson Welles’ excellent mindbender, F for Fake; the unexpected psychosexual dram…
Hearing Vin Diesel's low roar of a voice, you almost wonder if that deep-rock drawl alone made Fast & Furious into a 6 billion dollar franchise. But Vin Diesel doesn’t do a lot of talking in t…
In Australian Cinemas on June 1. When one sees the title card “Based on a True(ish) Story” and brought to the screen by the creative team behind Fisherman’s Friends there isn’t much doubt what kind o…
Trained to See will be screening at the Castlemaine Documentary Festival on Saturday 17 June 2023. Tickets are available here. There are many iconic photographs from WWII, from the patriotic to the w…
Once upon a time there was a little film released in 2001 titled The Fast and the Furious which was essentially a riff on Point Break with street racing, not surfing, and small heists of consumer elec…
Trained to See will be screening at the Castlemaine Documentary Festival on Saturday 17 June 2023. Tickets are available here. There are many iconic photographs from WWII, from the patriotic to the w…