– The Breaker Upperers – Only in cinemas from 26 July 2018 We have 5 double in-season passes thanks to Madman Entertainment. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE Fifteen years ago, Mel (Madeleine Sami) and Jen (Jackie van Beek) discovered they were being two-timed by the same man. Bitter and cynical they…
– Misbehaviour – Only in cinemas from 26 November 2020 We have 5 double in-season passes thanks to StudioCanal. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE In 1970, the Miss World competition took place in London, hosted by US comedy legend, Bob Hope. At the time, Miss World was the most-watched TV show…
Hot off his Ned Kelly Award win for the twisty crime novel The Wife and the Widow, Christian White dives deep into late 1980s suburbia for his third novel Wild Place. While his first novel The Nowhere Child travelled to America and The Wife and the Widow journeyed to an island off the coast of…
Director Robert Eggers certainly loves a descent into madness. After the refined horror-thriller The Witch, he’s back with another hallucinatory drama in The Lighthouse. Despite having only two characters on screen for much of the time, this is a complex, disturbing examination of human frailty; sprinkled liberally with a variety of myths from different cultures….
Danish author and poet Hans Christian Anderson based the literary fairy tale The Red Shoes about a peasant girl named Karen on his loathed half-sister of that name. The story, first published in an 1845 collection of his works, is that of a girl being forced to dance continually in red shoes. The peasant girl’s…
Drug addiction. If you can’t break the vicious cycle, there is a fair chance you will end up dead. Peter Cook was one of the fortunate ones. He is still alive after the intervention of his best friend. Rehab saw him get off the gear and he has written a compelling show about it. But…
I admit I’ve been a bit tardy catching up with Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, the buzz US show that marks Tina Fey’s return to the television landscape following the end of 30 Rock. I’ve been so slack in fact that the show released here in Australia in late March and I’m only just getting around to…
Harry Potter is a global cultural phenomenon. It started with what became the most successful book series in history (more than 600 million sold). Then, it transformed into one of the highest grossing film franchises (with a take of upwards of 12.75 billion Australian dollars for the eight movies). Further, the theatrical production Harry Potter…
If there’s something Travolta remained loyal to, then surely it’s his distinctive, sad look. Ever since I saw him the first time appearing in Saturday Night Fever (ages ago), he uses that sad expression. It always looks as if he’s going to burst out in tears. And the movie The Forger is substantively perfect for…
When I wrote about Burning earlier this year, I mentioned that East Asian cinema was having something of a “moment”. Well, that “moment” continues with Joon Ho Bong’s Palme d’Or (2019) winner, Parasite. A veteran of Korean cinema, Bong is probably best known here for 2013’s Snowpiercer. Sci-fi has been his forte, so Parasite is…
