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Shirley Review – A Film Made of Tremendously Seductive Dreams and Nightmares

Nadine Whitney
July 9, 2020
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With Shirley, director Josephine Decker has created a film that is not in any way a literal or traditional biographic rendering of the novelist Shirley Jackson. Instead, it works by layering sets of metaphors ...

Love Sarah Review – A Proud Collapsed Cake of Disappointment

Andrew F Peirce
June 29, 2020
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Everyone has a memorable first. First kisses, first loves, first movies, the list goes on. For me, the first film I saw in a cinema once the Covid-19 pandemic restrictions lifted was an innocuous and brittle t...

Burden Review – A Film About Second Chances at a Time When They’re Needed the Most

Travis Akbar
June 11, 2020
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I cannot stress how much of a struggle it was for me to get through this movie. Burden centres around Mike Burden, a prominent Ku Klux Klan member who opens a KKK Museum in a South Carolina town, but after ...

The Assistant Review – A Quiet Film With a Loud Premise

Nadine Whitney
June 8, 2020
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Director and screenwriter Kitty Green’s first foray into the world of fictional filmmaking, The Assistant, is a quiet film with a loud premise about the culture that creates a hostile environment for women wor...

The Assistant Director Kitty Green Interview – #MeToo, Julia Garner, and a Changing Industry

Andrew F Peirce
June 8, 2020
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Kitty Green is the director of the excellent film The Assistant, a powerful film starring Julia Garner, and featuring a powerful assessment of the era-defining #MeToo. Andrew caught up with Kitty to discus...

The Daughter Review – A Powerful and Atmospheric Film that Lingers and Disturbs

Nadine Whitney
May 25, 2020
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The Daughter is an exquisite rendering of Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck set in a small logging community in rural NSW, Simon Stone’s first feature is remarkably assured as it transposes Ibsen’s tragedy to a sma...

Saint Frances Review – A Proudly Feminist, Eagerly Sweet Millennial Coming-of-Age Film

Andrew F Peirce
May 23, 2020
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Joining the seemingly never-ending list of millennial-made films about adults learning life lessons from kids is the eagerly sweet Saint Frances. Directed by Alex Thompson, and written by and starring his part...

Charlie Says Review – A Muddied Character Study that Feels Incomplete

Nadine Whitney
May 15, 2020
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In the space of two years, three films about the Manson family murders appeared to varying degrees of critical and commercial success. The universally panned 2019 Hilary Duff vehicle The Haunting of Sharon Tat...

The Man is SID 6.7: Russell Crowe Goes Dark Again

Travis Akbar
May 14, 2020
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Let’s be honest, Coronavirus has killed a lot of people, screwed the economy, and given a lot of people an unwanted and unaffordable holiday. In the scheme of things, not being able to go to the cinema isn’t a...

Hostage Review – Kerry Mack and Judy Nunn Impress in Lost Aussie Cautionary Thriller

Andrew F Peirce
May 6, 2020
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The re-emergence of Frank Shields 1983 thriller Hostage (aka Savage Attraction) from Umbrella Entertainment comes at a fascinating time in history. Based on Christine Maresch’s book of the same name, this is t...
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