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Andrew F Peirce·December 24, 2021·15 min read

A Love Letter to the Australian Films of 2021 and an Announcement for the Future

They say that limitation breeds creativity. They’re not wrong. A year ago, I made the decision that from January 2020...
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Andrew F Peirce·March 8, 2021·2 min read

An Interview with Laura’s Choice Directors Sam Lara and Cathy Henkel – A Meditation on Compassion, Family, and the Difficult Discussions Along the Way

Every so often, a film comes across your way that manages to reinforce a life perspective that you’ve long felt...
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Andrew F Peirce·March 11, 2021·19 min read

Laura’s Choice Review – One of the Towering Achievements of Australian Documentary Filmmaking

Laura’s Choice screens on ABC Australia, Wednesday March 17th 2021 at 8:45pm, and also on iView. In August 2006, I...
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Josh Margolin’s THELMA is a marvellous, witty, smart, and wholeheartedly charming affair. A sublime mixture of comedy and affection for

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"What would Tom Cruise do?" Nadine Whitney reviews Josh Margolin's THELMA for The Curb.

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LAST SUMMER is an indictment of bourgeois morality and respectability in keeping with Catherine Breillat’s sensibilities. Starring Léa Druker and

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Last Summer screens at the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 11, 13, and 19. Director, author, and provocateur Catherine Breillat returns to the screen after a near ten-year hiatus with Last Summer (L’été dernier), an interpretation of the Danish film, Queen of Hearts (Dronningen) ...

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KNEECAP is fecking fantastic and searingly smart. It certainly should come with a warning of “Do Not Try This at

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“Every word of Irish spoken is a bullet fired for freedom.” Fuck up it is! Rich Peppiatt’s hyper-kinetic Kneecap is A Hard Day’s Night for the North of Ireland and the hip hop generation. A little bit true and a lot untrue version of the formation of the Irish language hip hop West Belfast t...

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