Lake Mungo and the Imagery of Grief
There’s something intangible and surreal about grief. The initial shock of learning someone close to you has died, the wayContinue Reading
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The Greenhouse ★★½
The Greenhouse begins with voices interposed. Faces at a dinner table are theatrically illuminated; anecdotes are whimsically exchanged. We comeContinue Reading
My First Summer ★★★½
There is something unforgettably nourishing in being witness to creativity. Whether it takes shape as dyeing bed sheets, collaging, braceletContinue Reading
Relic ★★★
For women in horror films, trauma is fated. It is their bodies at the mercy of narrative evil; their painContinue Reading
Babyteeth ★★
Coming-of-age dramas have been around for decades so at this point it’s hard for any of them to break newContinue Reading
The Scapegoats of War in Australia’s Breaker Morant
It is hard to not watch Bruce Beresford‘s Breaker Morant and think of Michael Anderson‘s Conduct Unbecoming or the moreContinue Reading
The Invisible Man ★★★½
Fittingly, Leigh Whannell‘s The Invisible Man is both about what can and cannot be seen. On the face of CeceliaContinue Reading
The King ★★
Both Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir Kenneth Branagh have previously directed and starred in adaptations of William Shakespeare‘s Henry V.Continue Reading
The Nightingale ★★★½
The last we had seen from Australian filmmaker Jennifer Kent was the 2014 horror sensation, The Babadook. After its success,Continue Reading
Most Anticipated of August 2019
Ian Floodgate: The first film out this month that I would like to take a look at is The Nightingale,written andContinue Reading
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