– Russian Resurrection Film Festival – Screening from 23 October 2015 We have 10 double session passes thanks to the festival. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Eighteen new Russian films will premiere at the 12th Russian Resurrection Film Festival, playing at venues in Australia and New Zealand during October and November. Along with this selection…
If you’re the kind of person who finds shows like How I Met Your Mother or Hart of Dixie just too sickly-sweet, then You’re the Worst is for you. If those shows are like pink lemonade, this is a tequila slammer with extra lime – tart, sour and delicious. Our couple here consists of Jimmy…
OK, first things first. If you haven’t seen the first season of How to Get Away with Murder but want to, read no further. Here be spoilers. So, at the end of season 1 we discovered that 1) Frank (Charlie Weber) killed Lila at the insistence of Sam, now-dead husband of Annalise (Viola Davis); 2)…
This is the story of the back up musicians who crafted some of the greatest hits of the 60s and early 70s. They were known by the film’s title, The Wrecking Crew. It is a documentary tenderly produced and directed by Denny Tedesco, son of legendary late Wrecking Crew guitarist Tommy Tedesco. For six years…
This is the second documentary in as many weeks to hit our screens exploring an indigenous community and the way in which their traditions and culture have been affected by the white man’s ways. We recently had David Gulpilil take us to his home town of Ramingining in the Northern Territory for the revealing and…
Like bands, the singer/songwriter can be broken down into categories. You have your super voices grouping that I still use Jeff Buckley and Elliott Smith as the bar for comparison, there is the indie rocker guys like Ty Segall and Mikal Cronin that typically come armed with a band behind them and then there is…
Worldwide, there should be an obligation for doomsayers, negativists and pessimists to watch this film. I’m sure it won’t make them happier, because most of them are hopelessly lost and trapped in their negative spiral. But maybe there will be a few individuals who’ll understand the message of this action packed futuristic Disney movie. The…
It’s been a few years since I’ve read the Millennium series (and watched the Swedish film versions), but having enjoyed them, I was keen to see how a new writer would tackle the series. It’s big shoes to fill, but David Lagercrantz stepped into those shoes with style and clever storytelling. Here’s the blurb: The…
A Steady Rain (2007), by Keith Huff, is a cop show, a vivid law and order episode of a grimy underbelly intensity, looking at two Chicago men-in-blue, two schoolboy, neighbourhood friends, partnered to patrol their cities’ streets for the protection of their citizenry. It examines two men, two bonded ‘bros’, under the relentless pressure of…
What if space travel had evolved to such an extent that man had landed on Mars and you had inadvertently been left on the red planet with next to no chance of survival? That is the premise at the heart of this action adventure science fiction film, directed by Ridley Scott (Alien, Blade Runner, Black…
