Low Level Panic, was written by Clare McIntyre, and presented at the Royal Court Theatre, in London in 1988. It is an examination of the low level panic that some women may feel by just ‘being’ in the world with the omnipresence of pornography and its possible construction for human behaviour. It traces the reaction…
Making his English language debut, Norwegian director Joachim Trier has crafted a tricky relationship movie with deep-seated feelings at its core in Louder Than Bombs. Three years after the untimely death of celebrated war photographer Isabelle Reed (Isabelle Huppert), her eldest son Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg), married with a recently born child, returns to his family…
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…
Whereas the first film in the Star Trek reboot (simply titled Star Trek) was all about forming the group that would become a family, and the second (Star Trek: Into Darkness) galvanised them in the face of a new threat, both of those were ultimately Earth bound. Star Trek: Beyond is the first time we…
If you enjoyed the American TV shows like Frasier and Seinfeld, then Straight White Men will suit you down to the ground. It felt like a sitcom, has great characters, terrific dialogue, is brilliantly acted, and under Nescha Jelk’s direction played strictly for laughs – and I laughed a lot. It has no plot as…
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…
The best horror films have featured nasty boogeymen who haunt our dreams. In the 80s we had the likes of Michael Myers, Freddie Krueger and Jason Vorhees. More recently we’ve had the apparitions of The Babadook and It Follows to creep us out. Now director David F Sandberg gives us a chilling creation that plays…
– The Shallows – Only in cinemas from 18 August 2016 We have 10 double in-season passes thanks to Sony Pictures Releasing. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE In the taut thriller The Shallows, Nancy (Blake Lively) is surfing alone on a secluded beach when she is attacked by a great white…
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…
– Blood Father – Only in cinemas from 1 September 2016 We have 20 double in-season passes thanks to Icon Film Distribution. *(Tickets valid in Australia only)* Watch the trailer HERE Mel Gibson returns to the big screen in the edge-of-your-seat action thriller, BLOOD FATHER, based on the novel by Peter Craig (scriptwriter of The…
