Simon Bossell Archive

  A sprawling surge of social media crested and washed up on the shores of Danielle Lauren’s computer. She and her team watched over 3000 pieces, both amateur and professional, all taken at the same precise moment. She cut it together into …

In all of its genuine messiness, its insistence on a multi-stranded narrative, its capricious flaunting and taunting of truth, Stories We Tell finally does what I have been wanting to see in cinema for years. Sarah Polley tells the story of her …

It’s 2005, and some of Sydney’s most violent riots are about to take place in Cronulla. The Capulets and Montagues are at each other’s throats again, this time in the guise of the Skips vs the Lebs. The floorboards are creaking and …

One family is a well-to-do southern suburbs family, the other an immigrant family from Sydney’s west. Older, cooler heads – and police commissioner Prince – try vainly to turn back the tide of hatred, passion and bloodshed.  A beach party crashed, insults …

Imagine falling asleep right there in the cinema, at a film festival with films screening back to back. Suddenly, a strange man who doesn’t belong in these movies breaks the fourth wall and begins addressing you about how the films are affecting …

Robert Greene, author of The 48 Laws of Power, The Art of Seduction, The 33 Strategies of War, and The 50th Law (co-written with 50 Cent), has come out with a ripping new book, entitled Mastery. His soft-spoken manner belies the cool, …

Gone are the days when short films seemed to be arcane academic exercises you wished you had the requisite university degree to understand – or even worse, the kind of one-joke chucklers I used to yawn through at Tropfest. These days short …