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Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Review – Rolls the Dice and Completes a Successful Campaign as a Rollicking Crowd-pleaser

Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves Review – Rolls the Dice and Completes a Successful Campaign as a Rollicking Crowd-pleaser

Nadine Whitney Mar 27, 2023 4 min read
Films Reviews Chris Pine Dungeons and Dragons fantasy Justice Smith michelle rodriguez Review

You may have never picked up a twenty-sided die in your life, or you may be a dab hand at the most popular role-playing tabletop game, well, ever. Either way there is something for the novice and the…

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Perth Festival 2023: Björk, Kronos Quartet, Djinda, and the Trees We Have Lost

Perth Festival 2023: Björk, Kronos Quartet, Djinda, and the Trees We Have Lost

Andrew F Peirce Mar 26, 2023 17 min read
Articles Hlynur Pálmason Kronos Quartet music Nature Perth Festival Review The Giants Theatre

On the 6th of October 2022, Perth Festival announced that its 18-year association with fossil fuel company Chevron was coming to an end after the 2023 season. Chevron stood as a long-term partner for…

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Charity Screenings Of New Film Olga To Support  UN Women Australia’s Emergency Ukraine Appeal

Charity Screenings Of New Film Olga To Support  UN Women Australia’s Emergency Ukraine Appeal

Press Releases Mar 24, 2023 2 min read
Articles Ukraine

PRESS RELEASE A portion of all ticket sales from upcoming May 3 screenings of award-winning Swiss/Ukrainian drama OLGA will go to charity organisation UN Women Australia, which supports women and gir…

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Empire of Light review - Leaves One Annoyed and Confused

Empire of Light review - Leaves One Annoyed and Confused

Christopher John Mar 23, 2023 5 min read
Films Reviews Colin Firth Drama Empire Empire of Light film Micheal Ward movies Olivia Colman Review Roger Deakins Sam Mendes Toby Jones

About halfway through Sam Mendes’ latest film Empire of Light, I began to seriously question the nature of perspective in cinematic storytelling. Who’s point of view are we seeing these events from? H…

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John Wick: Chapter 4 Review – An Action Epic for the Ages

John Wick: Chapter 4 Review – An Action Epic for the Ages

Nadine Whitney Mar 23, 2023 4 min read
Films Reviews John Wick Keanu Reeves Laurence Fishburne Review

Jonathon “John” Wick (aka Jardani Jovanovich, aka ‘The Baba Yaga’) has been through a lot from his inception in Chad Stahelski’s John Wick in 2014. The original film co-directed by David Leitch saw th…

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Celebrating the Agents of Change: AIDC Wraps For 2023 After A Record-Breaking Year

Celebrating the Agents of Change: AIDC Wraps For 2023 After A Record-Breaking Year

Press Releases Mar 21, 2023 5 min read
Articles AIDC documentary

PRESS RELEASE Drawn by the prospect of gathering face-to-face after two previous hybrid and virtual outings, the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) welcomed 820 documentary and fa…

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Eric Bana and Robert Connolly return with Force of Nature: The Dry 2 in 2023

Eric Bana and Robert Connolly return with Force of Nature: The Dry 2 in 2023

Press Releases Mar 21, 2023 2 min read
Articles australian film Robert Connolly The Dry

PRESS RELEASE ‘Force of Nature: The Dry 2’, the follow up to the 2021 Australian box office smash hit The Dry, will hit Australian and New Zealand cinemas on August 24, 2023. The film is based on th…

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The Last Tourist Launches in Australia, A Documentary on the Impacts of Tourism

The Last Tourist Launches in Australia, A Documentary on the Impacts of Tourism

Press Releases Mar 21, 2023 2 min read
Articles documentary The Last Tourist

PRESS RELEASE Launching in Australia today on Prime Video, Apple iTunes, Google Play and Microsoft, award-winning documentary, The Last Tourist addresses the real impact of mass tourism as it travers…

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Resurrection Imprint Films Bluray Review - An Essential Addition to Anyone’s Collection

Resurrection Imprint Films Bluray Review - An Essential Addition to Anyone’s Collection

Nadine Whitney Mar 20, 2023 5 min read
Films Reviews Ellen Burstyn Imprint Films Resurrection Review

Australian boutique physical media label Imprint Films have been doing a truly marvellous job at rescuing indispensable films from obscurity. Not only do they provide beautifully restored prints, each…

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Tune into The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour Wherever You Can

Tune into The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour Wherever You Can

Nadine Whitney Mar 19, 2023 4 min read
Films Reviews australian film Comedy Platon Theodoris Review The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour

Nitin Vengurlekar, the star and screenwriter (based on his play of the same name) of Platon Theodoris’ The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour has spoken in an interview how he abhors metaphors. He has some g…

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Frozen in a Feeling: Mirrors and Being Seen in Goran Stolevski's Of an Age

Nadine Whitney Mar 17, 2023 6 min read
Films Reviews australian film Goran Stolevski Of an Age Queer cinema Review

In the space of two years Macedonian-Australian director Goran Stolevski has emerged as a cinematic talent who can vividly craft a philosophical treatise on what it is to live wrapped in the skin of a…

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Shazam! Fury of the Gods Review – A Shaggy Film That Doesn’t Provide Enough Reason to Continue Further

Shazam! Fury of the Gods Review – A Shaggy Film That Doesn’t Provide Enough Reason to Continue Further

Nadine Whitney Mar 17, 2023 4 min read
Films Reviews David Sandberg Review Shazam Superheroes Zachary Levi

David F. Sandberg’s 2019 Shazam! felt like a breath of fresh air in the grimdark world of the DCEU. A tale about Billy Batson (Asher Angel/Zachary Levi); a kid rejected by his family, the foster syste…

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