Two actors – presumably in their 60s – dressed in dark attire, sitting on fixed chairs about five metres apart, one questioning the other and then the roles are reversed … for 100 minutes without interval. No set. The audience on tiered seating on either side. Hardly what you may imagine could lead to riveting…
Backtrack is an atmospheric Aussie psychological thriller with supernatural undertones that borrows elements from the superior The Sixth Sense and Nicolas Roeg’s Don’t Look Now, among others. The film explores themes of grief, redemption, loss, forgiveness, and confronting the ghosts of the past. Troubled psychologist Peter Bower (played by Oscar winner Adrien Brody, from The…
France’s nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at this year’s Oscars, Mustang is, not surprisingly, a riveting drama about five beautiful Turkish girls whose lives are turned to hell by age-old practices. It is the start of the summer. In a remote village in the north of Turkey, Lale and her four older sisters come…
Not as ambitious in scope and scale as his previous film Boyhood, which was filmed over a period of twelve years, Richard Linklater’s latest film has been touted as “a spiritual sequel” to his 1993 slacker classic Dazed And Confused. While steeped in a strong sense of nostalgia for the early 80s, it also explores…
Twenty years on, for director Roland Emmerich (Godzilla), Independence Day Resurgence marks a return to the universe he and co-writer and producer Dean Devlin created. Using recovered alien technology, the nations of Earth have collaborated on an immense defense program to protect the planet. But nothing can prepare us for the aliens’ advanced and unprecedented…
The fifth in the animated action adventure series that began in 2002, it is once again saber-toothed squirrel Scrat’s epic pursuit of an elusive acorn that drives events in Ice Age: Collision Course. Scrat is catapulted into the universe, bounces off and through planets, pilots a flying saucer and wears a space suit, all the…
Tie-dyed shirts, patchwork pants in many colours, flares and idealism were ripe at the time this world premiere by Yale graduate Ali Viterbi starts its life cycle. Spanning the years 1975 to 2000, Deadheads follows the fortunes of a couple who met while still in school. Ethan (Rian Howlett) was 18 and Sadie (Sophia Simmons)…
– Scandinavian Film Festival – Only in cinemas from 5 July 2016 We have 5 double in-season passes thanks to Palace Cinemas. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE More than just noir: the Volvo Scandinavian Film Festival brings new dramas, documentaries and laughs to Palace Cinemas around Australia this July. Now a…
– Love & Friendship – Only in cinemas from 21 July 2016 We have 10 double in-season passes thanks to Transmission Films. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE Set in the opulent drawing rooms of eighteenth-century English society, Love & Friendship focuses on the machinations of a beautiful widow, Lady Susan Vernon,…
I minored in art history at university, so The Last Painting of Sara de Vos reeled me in easily. From the opening, where the fictional painting’s description is entrenched in the mind of readers, I was captivated by the fascinating story of this painting, and the impact it had on three key characters. While I’d love…
