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.
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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.
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.
Something You Said’s top 20 films of 2016
2016 was another good year for movies. Here are Something You Said’s contributors’ favourite flicks from the last 12 months.
Film Review: La La Land is refreshingly nostalgic
La La Land launches audiences on a refreshing journey of nostalgic cinematic romance in the modern world.
Review: Bad Santa 2 is rude, crude and cynical
Thirteen years is a long time between drinks for thieving mall santa Willie, so is it worth checking in on him now?
Movie Review: Elvis & Nixon
“Rock ’n’ roll legend Elvis Presley meets the President of the United States Richard Nixon” is a headline sure to grab the attention.