With book by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and choreography by Jerome Robbins, West Side Story is…

Australian science fiction and thriller author Max Barry has done arcane conspiracies (Lexicon), satire (Jennifer Government) and space wars (Providence)…

The sexually-charged comedy Shiva Baby is an awkward delight. Dani (Rachel Sennott) is a 20-something sugar baby, part of a…

Let’s face it, growing old isn’t nice, but this offering from M. Night Shyamalan is simply ridiculous. Guy (Gael Garcia…

A pleasantly distracting comedy, Rosa’s Wedding centres around a hard-working woman who’s selfless to the point of exhaustion. She looks…

Nicola West’s debut, Catch Us the Foxes set in a regional coastal town south of Sydney, is a strange, potentially…

Opening night performances often end with a standing ovation, sometimes as a slowly staggered act of obligation. In the case…

It’s a week of limited cinema releases, and they couldn’t be more different. In contrast to the thoughtful Nine Days,…

Once upon a time, cinema was the vanguard of daring ideas. In 1957, for example, Ingmar Bergman had his protagonist…

Patricia Marques’ debut The Colours of Death is a successful genre mash. Marques has taken a down-the-line crime procedural, mixed…