The 2019 AACTA Award Predictions
If you took a cursory glance at the list of films nominated for the 2019 AACTA Awards, you’d be forgiven for thinking that there were only five films released this year. With The Nightingale, Hotel Mumbai, The...
The Nightingale Sweeps 2019 AACTA Nominations, While Screenplay Category is Shafted
Jennifer Kent’s The
Nightingale reigns supreme with a total of fifteen nominations for the 2019
AACTA Awards. The colonial set film is closely followed by Hotel Mumbai and The King
which have thirteen nominati...
Ten Films You Must See at the Byron Bay Film Festival
The Byron Bay Film
Festival kicks off on October 18th, running til October 27th.
Even though I write from the other side of the country, I’ve long admired the
brilliant selection of films that the festival has...
Hearts and Bones Review – A Humane Look Into the Ownership of Stories
Filmmaker Ben Lawrence showed an
affinity for damaged people with his acclaimed documentary, Ghosthunter, and that empathy for injury
and vulnerability carries over to his first fiction feature, Hearts and Bon...