Category Archive: Film

Review: Happy End at Sydney Film Festival

Michael Hanake’s Happy End is not a happy film, presenting to a us quite bleak observations on the life of a family living in Calais.

Some Like It Queer: a film festival

This summer, in the spirit of Pride, The Barge House in London is hosting a film festival celebrating different aspects of queer culture.

Film Review: The Other Side of Hope

Unfortunately, the reality is that the comedic licence expressed by The Other Side of Hope is hauntingly close to the truth.

Photos & Review: Una at Sydney Film Festival

We sent Addy Fong to the State Theatre screening of Una at Sydney Film Festival. Check out her photos and review.

Review: The Untamed at Sydney Film Festival

Amat Escalante’s The Untamed does not hold back in its portrayal of sex as something that evokes both fear and curiosity.

Film Review: 20th Century Women

20th Century Women explores the nature of what it means to grow up amongst cultural change, where conflicting ideologies surface.

Film review: Things to Come

Mia Hansen-Løve’s ‘Things to Come’ reassures us that the opportunity of reinventing oneself is all about perspective.

Review: Berlin Syndrome is a survival story

Berlin Syndrome tells of the complex relationship that emerges between an Australian photographer and charismatic Berlin local.

Sydney Film Festival is here again!

Dust off your winter coats, polish your best shoes and set these dates in your diaries, for Sydney Film Festival is on again.

Film Review: Loving deals with what matters

Written and directed by Jeff Nichols, Loving tells the story of an an interracial couple in the 1960s and their mistreatment.

Review: Toni Erdmann is funny and tender

Toni Erdmann is a genuinely funny film. It garners its laughs from its strangeness, its awkwardness, its silliness and its surreality.

Film review: Paterson is worth every moment

In Jim Jarmusch’s most melancholy indie tome to date, Adam Driver plays a 30-something bus driver in Paterson, New Jersey.