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“Together our future is bright.” Acclaimed political documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer segueing into fiction filmmaking via a post apocalyptic musical isn’t as strange a proposition as it might first…
Two infantry soldiers, Lance Cpl. Schofield (George MacKay) and Lance Cpl. Blake (Dean-Charles Chapman) are given the task of delivering an urgent message to a fellow British battalion to call off a p…
Adapting a play from stage to screen is always a difficult proposition, if for no other reason than the question why. Why translate this from stage to screen? What makes this cinematic? Will it be so…
Early on in the proceedings of Justin Kurzel’s iconoclastic take on Australia’s favourite outlaw legend, young Ned Kelly (Orlando Schwerdt) watches furtively as his mother, Ellen (Essie Davis doing a…
It is the First World War. The unnerving silence of a quaint French town - now occupied by German military forces - is interrupted by the sound of invading soldiers making howling commands. The fall…
The power of enduring stories is that they can be reshaped, remoulded, transmogrified, and morphed throughout time to become echoes of what they once were. Shakespeare’s Hamlet is one such story, havi…
Amma Asante is one of the more exciting directors working today. Belle is a genuinely powerful glimpse into the history of race relations in 18th-Century England. A United Kingdom may not be as great…