Tag: Cinema of Australia

The Babadook | Review

Consequences of Grief: Kent’s Stunning Debut Wades Through Primordial Fears Satisfying genre films are generally few and far between these days, so it’s with absolute...

Limbo | Review

Desert Fury: Sen Gets Bleak in the Heat of a Cold Case Mystery Despite it being the title of innumerable films from around the world,...

Flathead | 2024 International Film Festival Rotterdam Review

Days And Nights In Bundaberg: Jaydon Martin’s Docu-Fiction Journey Leaves Outsiders Adrift Falling under an atmospheric shadow of loss and regret, Flathead, the directorial debut...

The Royal Hotel | Review

Kitty Green Takes her 'Assistant’ To The Outback in Sunburn Sizzler After exploring the ways in which workplace rape culture enables predators like Harvey Weinstein...

The Survival of Kindness | 2023 Berlin Film Festival Review

Lady in a Cage: de Heer’s Dystopia Explores the Enduring Echoes of Colonialism Dutch-born director Rolf de Heer has been a mainstay of Australian cinema...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #14. Kitty Green’s The Royal Hotel

The Royal Hotel A favorite of ours amongst working female directors always surprising us with her ingenuity, originality and formal rigueur as witnessed in the...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #67. David Michôd’s Wizards!

Wizards! In his short, quartet feature film filmography David Michôd has given us a garden variety. His fifth feature in Wizards! is no different. Wizards!...

Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #103. Alice Englert’s Bad Behaviour

Bad Behaviour After a decade in front of the camera  Alice Englert got more into the family business getting behind the camera to make her...

Nitram | Review

A Pleasure to Burn: Kurzel Explores the Making of a Murderer in Disturbing Portrait On April 28, 1996, lone gunman Martin Bryant shot and killed...

The Furnace | 2020 Venice Film Festival Review

Easier for a Camel: MacKay Unearths Troubling History in Revisionist Western Debut Like Jennifer Kent before him with 2018’s The Nightingale, director Roderick MacKay mines...

Babyteeth | Review

Death Comes for the Ozzie Frippet: Murphy Looks to Love Amidst Dysfunction in Cancer Melodrama Precocious teens represent a burgeoning film subgenre all to themselves---and...

True History of the Kelly Gang | Review

The Ned Don’t Die: Kurzel Returns to Form with Exploration of Infamous Outlaw It’s been nearly 140 years since the execution of Ned Kelly, Australia’s...

Jimmy Eats World in Schepisi’s Early “The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith” (1978) | Blu-ray Review

Fred Schepisi’s 1978 sophomore film The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith holds a significant prominence in the Australian New Wave, which revitalized Australia’s film industry...

The Nightingale | Review

Bloody White People: Kent Hits Hard with Brutal Revenge Trip Jennifer Kent follows up her formidable debut The Babadook with a less inventive, but decidedly...

I Am Mother | 2019 Sundance Film Festival Review

They Call Me Mother: Sputore Examines What It Means to Be Human in Sci-Fi Debut Australia’s Grant Sputore makes an impressive directorial debut with the...

Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2019: #128. I Am Mother – Grant Sputore

I Am Mother Australia’s Grant Sputore makes a high profile directorial debut with I Am Mother, a post-apocalyptic sci-fi feature produced by Kelvin Munro of...

2019 Sundance Film Festival Predictions: #42. Mirrah Foulkes – Judy and Punch

For those who want to get into the Anomalisa mindset, you might want to look out for this number from down under. Actress (Sundance...

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