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FILM REVIEW: ON BODY AND SOUL (2017)
"On Body and Soul" directed by Ildikó Enyedi is nothing short of a modern day, magic realist masterpiece. Not only was I lucky enough to...


MELBOURNE DOCUMENTARY FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: THE ORB PLAYFULLY PROFILED IN LUNAR ORBIT (CANADA, 2016)
If you have never heard of The Orb before I would recommend listening to their 1989 hit A Huge Ever Growing Pulsating Brain That Rules...


DIRECTOR PATRICK BUCHANAN TALKS THE ORB AND LUNAR ORBIT AHEAD OF THE MELBOURNE DOCUMENTARY FILM FEST
We caught up with director Patrick Buchanan talks Lunar Orbit ahead of the screening of his film about iconic group The Orb at the...


SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: VAYA (SOUTH AFRICA, 2016) IS A BRUTAL COMING OF AGE STORY SET IN AN UNF
Like it’s Tsotsitaal namesake meaning “to go”, Vaya , Directed by Akin Omotoso , literally begins on the move. Opening on a train bound...


SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: A QUIET DREAM (KOREA, 2016) WAKES UP AN INVISIBLE SIDE OF SEOUL
Placing itself somewhere between the genres of mumblecore and slice of life, A Quiet Dream directed by Zhang Lu , is an almost...


FIRST IMPRESSIONS: WHY NETFLIX’S 13 REASONS WHY IS A CLEVER, IMPORTANT AND RELATABLE SERIES
It is hard to know where to start with 13 Reasons Why as the story unconventionally begins with it’s end. In this case, it is the end of...


SXSW FILM REVIEW: CALIFORNIA DREAMS (USA, 2017) SHOULD BE CALLED “CALIFORNIA DELUSIONS”
With La La Land having recently dominated the Oscars, its story about 2 hopefuls trying to make it in Hollywood uncomfortably lingered...


MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: ERNIE BISCUIT (AUSTRALIA, 2015)
From the maker of Oscar Winning Harvie Krumpet (2003) and Mary and Max (2009), claymation pioneer Adam Elliot brings to screen his...


MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: MAGIC MAGIC (CHILE/USA, 2013)
As part of their Retrospective program, MIFF has re released Chilean director Sebastian Silva’s 2013 psychological horror Magic Magic ....


MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL REVIEW: 808 (UK, 2015)
Alexander Dunn’s expositional documentary 808 takes its name from the Roland TR-808, one of the first programmable drum machines....


MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: TWO SHOTS FIRED (ARGENTINA, 2014)
With apparently no story arc, protagonist or resolution, Two Shots Fired moves away from conventional story structure and becomes an...


FILM REVIEW: DAFT PUNK’S ELECTROMA (FRANCE, 2006) – SPECIAL ACMI SCREENING
Daft Punk’s 2006 directorial debut Electroma is a step away from previous pop- film collaborations such as Discovery 2003 to a more...


FILM REVIEW: EDEN (FRANCE, 2014) – SPECIAL ACMI SCREENING
When faced with the challenge of representing over 20 years of the evolution of “French Touch”, a music genre inspired by American...


FILM REVIEW: INTERSTELLA 5555 (FRANCE, 2003) – SPECIAL ACMI SCREENING
Interstella 5555 is the result of a collaboration between french House duo Daft Punk with Anime legend Leiji Matsumoto , and director...


REVIEW: NT LIVE PRESENTS MAN AND SUPERMAN (UK, 2015)
Man and Super Man , distributed by the National Theatre , is spectacular epic with torrential dialogue and entertaining albeit...


WILD TALES (2014,ARGENTINA)
Produced by Pedro Almodóvar, Academy award nominated “Wild Tales” is an uproarious exercise in cleverly calculated randomness. If that...


FILM REVIEW: ALOHA (PG) (USA, 2015)
Aloha tells the story of skeptical military contractor, Brian Gilcrest’s ( Bradley Cooper ), who returns to Hawaii after losing himself...


FILM REVIEW: SAN ANDREAS (M, USA, 2015)
San Andreas is a fault line that extends through a large majority of California and is overdue for a BIG earthquake. “It’s not a matter...


FILM REVIEW: RICKI AND THE FLASH (USA, 2015)
Usually when imagining a career in rock n’ roll and a band called “Ricki And The Flash” you wouldn’t imagine it to involve a handful of...
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