You wouldn’t normally associate highbrow French filmmakers with pulpy genre films and familiar horror tropes. Least of all Olivier Assayas, whose last film, The Clouds of Sils Maria, was a highly unconventional take on a relationship drama and a study…
Win tickets to the Irish Film Festival! Enter now. St Patrick’s Day has come and gone for 2017, but if you didn’t get Irish culture fix, the luck of the Irish is on your side. The Irish film festival is…
April is shaping up to be a jam packed month! Have a look at our Top 10 to see what to scribble in your diaries. Whether it’s indulging in burgers and beer at Meatstock, raving at Transgenre, or sipping on red wine…
There is no denying the impact of humankind on this planet is absolute. When the Philip Glass Ensemble comes to Hamer Hall and performs a magnetic live rendition of their stunning score for the cult doco masterpiece KOYAANISQATSI (pronounced KOI-AH-NIS-CUT-SEE),…
During his Q&A session after the showing of ‘David Stratton: A Cinematic Life’ at Carlton’s Nova Cinema, I asked David Stratton, its star and subject, if he had any advice for a budding film critic. He said that anyone who…
Do you remember the first time you heard your favourite song? How you couldn’t believe you hadn’t heard it before, because you knew you already loved it? The opening sequence of Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius manages to capture a little…
Melbourne never fails to amuse. March is no exception, with its naked bicycle rides, its festivals with whacky names (Hot Dub Wine Machine), and its crazy-awesome food festivals. Margaritas? Food and film? Donuts and…beer? We have it all in Melbs this…
French cinema is always vibrant. Experimental, shocking, sensuous and artful, French filmmakers are always seeking to give their audiences a cinematic experience. The 2017 Alliance Française French Film Festival is a great opportunity to take a break from Hollywood’s franchise-based…
The 2008 Oscar award winning movie Slumdog Millionaire is what put A.R. Rahman into the spotlight in the western world, but for many years he had been a musical stalwart in the Indian movie industry. Traversing across the diverse Indian…
Win a double pass to see The Family! The best documentaries find a good story and tell it well. Effective journalism is about clean execution of the facts and making sure the audience stays fully informed every step of the way….