Film – Reviews Archive

  Ever since the fall of the Soviet Union, the nations that emerged in its place have struggled to respond to a new world. We have all been watching Ukraine on our televisions as it slides towards civil war, but it is …

Michel Houellebecq, the best-selling author and enfant terrible of French literature, vanished during his European book tour in 2011. His disappearance sparked wild rumours of kidnapping, suicide and even the involvement of Al-Qaeda. Writer-director Guillaume Nicloux has reimagined the events surrounding this vanishing …

In 2011, Michael Fassbender ditched his clothes and roamed around his apartment stark naked in the Steve McQueen film Shame. Now Fassbender has embraced modesty and covered himself up – completely – by obscuring his face with a giant papier-mâché head in …

This year’s Sydney Film Festival will feature the largest ever number of Australian films in competition for the top prize. Leading the charge in the Official Competition is David Michôd’s highly anticipated futuristic thriller Rover, his follow up to the Academy-Award nominated …

  The success of the Twilight saga has seen the resurgence of vampires in popular culture. These vampires are sparkly and whiny one-dimensional creatures gushed over by tween fans. Eclectic director Jim Jarmusch has taken the liberty of revamping the image of …

Steve McQueen’s third feature 12 Years A Slave is uncomfortable but unmissable viewing. The film follows the harrowing true story of Solomon Northup, a free black man from New York who was abducted and sold into slavery in the Deep South. Northup is shackled and stripped …

FLiCKERFEST’S Short Documentary category will now be eligible for Oscar accreditation as it joins the already Academy® Accredited Best International Short Film, Best Short Animation and Best Australian Short categories. Recipients of the festival’s prizes in the above categories will qualify for …

  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 …

This is a film about the things that unite us.  It reminds us that under our skins, cultures and the ways we choose to adorn ourselves, we’re not so very different.  It’s fly on the wall cinema, a masterpiece of open and …

It’s mid afternoon and the scent of freshly painted walls fills the air. Cylinders of brightly coloured fluid in all the colours of the rainbow are arranged along the steel grey walls, telling you this is no ordinary shed. A couple of …