Turning sitcoms into full length movies can be a precarious business. For every ace adaptation like Partridge’s Alpha Papa or The South Park Movie, there’s a disappointment like Guest House Paradiso – a poor effort from the… Read More
The debut feature from production company Ruin Films is Garish Hearts, an absurdist melodrama featuring many familiar Sydney faces and locations; distorted through the peculiar lens of Jay Cruikshank and Angela Garrick. The film… Read More
Celebrity guest contributor, the legendary Hugh Cornwell, reviews the new movie starring Kirsten Dunst, Viggo Mortensen and Oscar Isaac, which is centred on a con-artist, his wife and a stranger, who flee Athens after one… Read More
Frank (Michael Fassbender) is eccentric with boundless creative energy and has the making of a very famous musician. He is however, trapped within an enormous novelty head constructed of papier-mâché. We follow Frank… Read More
Carol Bowditch checks out the quirky charm of Kumiko The Treasure Hunter, which is showing at this year’s Sydney Film Festival: A 29 year-old Japanese woman called Kumiko waddles with determination through the tundra of a… Read More
After penning the wonderfully melancholic cult flick, Submarine, Richard Ayoade returns and is taking cues from his days as Moss in the IT Crowd with the doppleganger dark comedy, The Double. Carol Bowditch… Read More
Marine Vacth is quite possibly the most picturesque French female appearing on screen in many a year, taking the title previously held by puffy faced cutie, Adèle Exarchopoulos. The leading actress of Young & Beautiful has a… Read More
Visitors (Die Besucher) directed by Constanze Knoche, was screened in Sydney recently as part of the annual Audi Festival of German Films. Somethingyousaid.com’s Chloe Mayne gives it the once-over: Visitors is the kind of… Read More
Set amongst romantic desolation, a deeply depressed underground musician reunites with his enigmatic lover. No, not your average weekend in Surry Hills, but the new film from Jim Jarmusch. Here’s our review: Eve lays motionless,… Read More
Thanks to our buddies at eOne Hopscotch, we’re giving away five copies of must-see sci fi thriller Europa Report FOR FREE to our Australia based readers. Europa Report is a unique blend of documentary, alternative history and science… Read More
We recently featured Just a Sigh, which is currently travelling Australia with the Alliance Française French Film Festival. Today we take you geographically East with Oh Boy, a feature that is part of the Audi… Read More
Carol Bowditch reviews the boundary-pushing, landmark offering from Haifaa al-Mansour: Can I just start with saying that you need to see this film? It’s gratifying, it’s important and amazing. Feel free to switch over to… Read More