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This review contains mild spoilers. For some reason, as I walked out of my screening of Roderick MacKay’s feature debut, The Furnace, the imagery of a white-gowned choir of kids across the landscape…
Right across Australia, emerging filmmakers are finding their voices through microbudget feature films. I’ve written at length about Lucy Coleman’s masterful weaving of three thousand bucks into the s…
Powered by JustWatch In a seaside cottage in 1975 Alice Lamb (Penelope Wilton) hunches over a typewriter and is disturbed by a knock at the door. Two children are asking for donations for the el…
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 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…
Powered by JustWatch The year is 1970 and early stirrings of the Women’s Liberation Movement are coming to life in Britain. Women from different classes and backgrounds are starting to form orga…
Powered by JustWatch Wandering like a waif in the night, adorned in a dress of sequins and black, is Kate Lyn Shiel's Amy. Something is wrong, and despite the security of her home, she feels…
It is day six and Mads Mikkelsen drinks himself into a stupor but, you know, for science, in Another Round, while award-winning documentarian Gianfranco Rosi looks at life during wartime with Notturno…
Day three and it is Polish dramedy Never Gonna Snow Again and Christian Petzold’s Undine, two films that aim for magical realism but don’t quite hit the mark. Never Gonna Snow Again The trope of th…
It is the first day of LFF and I take a look at Steve McQueen’s Mangrove, rural-set Australian horror Relic, and Elizabeth Moss in biopic Shirley. Mangrove “The United Kingdom is not a racist count…
Powered by JustWatch To explore Kirsten Johnson’s immersive Cameraperson is to witness a unique, powerful memoir unfolding and unfurling. The core concept is deceptively simple: the entirety of…