Now entering its fourth year, Antenna, Australia’s much acclaimed documentary film festival, hits Sydney screens this October. And this year it is bigger and better than ever. There are 35 feature-length documentaries from over twenty… Read More
The ever growing niche documentary genre of ‘old people doing interesting things’ has extended beyond the belly laugh-inducing Ping Pong and the oh so heartbreaking Young at Heart. Now, highlighting style of the over 50s is the… Read More
Bobby Townsend reviews the new comedy/drama from Daniel Schechter, which is adapted from the work of Elmore Leonard: You may recall author Elmore Leonard’s characters Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara being portrayed by Samuel L.… Read More
Australian actor/writer Josh Lawson makes his directorial debut in this comedy, which was voted second in the 2014 Sydney Film Festival Audience Award for Best Feature. The Little Death, derived from the expression… Read More
Not-unlike like MIA, there’s an upcoming Australian feature from writer/director Robert Connolly which flies like paper and gets high like planes. The trailer for it has just launched. Check it out above, it looks awesome.… Read More
Only a side-effect, but already quite some achievement: With his latest movie, Jim Jarmusch saved the genre of vampire movies from hyped over-produced teen-kitsch… Only Lovers Left Alive is much more a road-movie than… Read More
In We Are The Best!, Swedish director/screenwriter Lukas Moodysson’s delivers a must-see for anybody who is thirteen, anybody who has ever been thirteen and anybody for whom music has had a profound affect on their… Read More
Melissa Oey reviews the new flick from Steven Knight: Ivan Locke (Tom Hardy) is an Everyman whose carefully constructed picket fence existence becomes threatened by a singular and supposedly uncharacteristic incident in his past.… Read More
Bobby Townsend reviews the moderately ludicrous new Luc Besson flick: There is enjoyable irony to the fact that a film about the potential capabilities of the human brain requires absolutely minimal thought from its… Read More
For a 10.30am screening of 20,000 Days on Earth, it was surprising that I cried for such an extended time throughout the picture. Perhaps now for some reason, located across the world in my hometown of… Read More
Carol Bowditch checks out the latest film written/directed by the Spierig Brothers: In an effort to keep my talents (ha) as a writer a mystery to my fellow preview screening journalists I make… Read More
Fact: You’ve never experienced a movie like Boyhood. Richard Linklater’s groundbreaking, coming-of-age story was filmed over the course of 12 years with the same cast. For the movie to have even made it to… Read More