As far as end of the world genre pics, you could do a lot worse than World War Z which isn’t saying much for it, but remains true none the less. This is a fast paced scary thrill ride of a film that will probably make a lot of money despite its budget of two […]
Category Archives: Film Reviews
June
14
World War Z – Brad Pitt and Marc Forster show us it’s cool to be PC (Film Review)
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June
13
Frances Ha – Noah Baumback grows a heart and cires “Look at my girlfriend!” (Sydney Film Festival Film Review)
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Frances Ha is now showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can get your tickets here. Frances Ha is a film that is loved, loved and then loved, most of all for Gerwig’s performance, which is spellbinding. This is probably the best film to show off her talents to date – and she did write […]
June
12
Oh Boy – Jan Ole Gerster tells us to say goodbye to a certain type of Berlin. (Sydney Film Festival Film Review)
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Oh Boy is showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can get your tickets here. There is an amazing combination – Tom Schillings face, Jan Ole Gerster‘s love of Berlin, the music of the Major Minors and the dotted cameos of famous German actors – that goes into making Oh Boy more than just another […]
June
11
Final Cut Ladies and Gentlemen – György Pálfi and the film of 500 films. (Sydney FF Film Review)
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Final Cut Ladies and Gentlemen is showing at the Sydney Film Festival. There is a new film nerd heaven. It is the product of three years in the editing room and the chopped up scenes of five hundred passionately loved films. It is the film that crowns György Pálfi as the ultimate film nerd, but […]
June
11
White Elephant – Pablo Trapero and the snapshot of the now. (Sydney FF Film Review)
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White Elephant is showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can get your tickets here. In our current global cultural discourse, it’s difficult to talk about priests without subtext. Yet not every priest can solve the problems of Catholicism, just as Priests have not been able to solve the problems of the world they engage with. The […]
June
10
The Search for Emak Bakia – Oskar Alegria and the search for the clown within. (SFF Film Review)
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The Search for Emak Bakir is currently showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can get your tickets here. “This creation is offered by one individual to another, to you, who are here.” Man Ray “Personally, I have always preferred inspiration to information.” Man Ray You don’t have to see Man Ray’s surrealist existential masterpiece […]
June
09
This Ain’t no Mouse Music – Chris Simon and Maureen Gosling remind us things need to be captured or they will be lost. (Sydney FF Film Review)
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This Ain’t no Mouse Music was shown at the Sydney Film Festival but has now completed its run there. There are those who consider the “capturing” of art to be a bourgeois form of colonization. Music, stories, art works and even to a lesser extent film and photography, are deeply personal creative responses that belong […]
June
09
Stoker – Park Chan-Wook and his ode to Hitchcock. (Sydney FF Film Review)
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Stoker is currently showing at the Sydney Film Festival. Shadow of a Doubt is one of Hitchcock masterpieces around the theme of the double. Made in 1943, it’s fitting to have a tribute to this mighty film seventy years later by a brilliant director whose viewing of Vertigo in his youth became the launching point […]
June
08
The Act of Killing – Josh Oppenheimer brings the documentary to the forefront of film making. (Sydney FF Film Review)
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The Act of Killing is a part of the Sydney Film Festival. The Act of Killing is a history making film, a documentary that has the voltaism to genre-cross into all forms of film making and leave its mark. This is the film that Wener Herzog and Errol Morris – arguably two of the best documentary […]
June
08
Ginger and Rosa – Sally Potter and the problem with girl/women (Sydney Film Festival Film Review)
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Ginger and Rosa is currently showing at the Sydney Film Festival. You can buy tickets here. Please note, this review contains spoilers. “My dear Ginger. Can’t you be a girl for a moment or two longer? You’ll be a woman soon enough.” The casting of Elle Fanning, a twelve year old girl, as the sixteen […]
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