A rich and rewarding spy thriller featuring an all-star cast, Our Kind of Traitor focuses on the Russian mafia and money laundering in the UK. A British university lecturer, Perry (Ewan McGregor), and his lawyer wife, Gail (Naomie Harris), are having their issues after being married for a decade or more. They take a break…
Hollywood has a nasty habit of trampling on the memories of our youth by remaking some of the classics of yesteryear, and in most cases stuffing them up beyond belief. They may justify this by saying that the remake opens an otherwise forgotten film up to a brand new audience. The latest classic to get…
It’s never quite clear whether PJ Harvey’s latest project – her ninth full-length – is an art project exploring the exploitative nature of poverty tourism for political gain, or if it’s a cynical look at an art project that exploits the nature of poverty tourism made possible by government’s endless efforts to impose their own…
Set in a New England colony in the early 1700s, before the time of the Salem witch trials, this is a slow burn drama about a family torn apart by witchcraft and demonic possession. A God-fearing puritanical family is expelled from their community for the sin of “prideful conceit” and forced to fend for themselves…
Greed and lust are at the heart of Nobel Prize winning playwright Eugene O’Neill’s primordial tragedy, Desire Under the Elms; which takes plot elements and themes from Greek tragedy and adapts them to a rural New England setting in 1850. In his mid 70s, Ephraim Cabot (Darren Mort) returns to his remote farm with his third…
Nicole Trope has been compared to Jodi Picoult, and it’s not an unfair comparison – both write about topical issues and from multiple perspectives, giving readers more to think – and talk – about. Here’s the blurb of her latest book, Blame: ‘I am here because they suspect me of something. I am here because…
– Down Under – Only in cinemas from 11 August 2016 We have 5 double in-season passes thanks to StudioCanal. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE DOWN UNDER is a black comedy set during the aftermath of the Cronulla riots in 2006, from filmmaker Abe Forsythe. The film tells the story of…
Now a much anticipated fixture on the festival calendar, the third Volvo Scandinavian Film Festival is now – or is just about to be – in full swing around Australia. The festival aims to present some of the most exciting and fresh movies from Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland. This year’s offerings include Finland’s…
A total of 1,517 people, more than two-thirds of those who boarded the world’s largest moving object, perished after the RMS Titanic hit an iceberg at 11:40pm on 14 April 1912 and sank early the following morning. Hardly the material that immediately makes you think of musical theatre … and yet it is just the…
In 1979, fundamentalist rebels overthrew the Shah of Iran and, simultaneously, threw the everyday lives of many into total disarray. In the West, it was an event captured in incendiary news clips of fevered young revolutionaries, American hostages, mounting repression and political tensions that exist to this day. But the story that was rarely told,…
