Confidence in anything during a pandemic is no mean feat. After setting the benchmark in 2020 with the online-only MIFF 68 1/2, MIFF (Melbourne International Film Festival), our beloved MIFF is back streaming into homes across the country. The only uncertainty is…
Mads Mikkelsen absolutely shines in director Thomas Vinterberg’s ‘intoxicating’ new film ‘Another Round‘. Having been nominated for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 78th annual Golden Globe awards, we were very excited to see if it lives up to the…
It’s not often that we see an Aussie blockbuster, especially with a cast this strong! Set in a wild and war torn dystopian vision of the land down under comes one of the most ambitious sci-fi film produced in Australia…
What to watch at Melbourne International Film Festival 2020
It’s that time of year again when cinema lovers, and fans of Japanese culture get together for the Japanese Film Festival (JFF). Presented by The Japan Foundation, JFF is now one of the largest celebrations of Japanese films in the…
We’re enormous fans of Underground Cinema — aka UGC — at The Plus Ones. UGC has honed the art of tease and surprise. With the intension of “Taking cinema out of the cinema” the UGC crew screen films in secret locations…
Presented by Palace Cinemas, the Cine Latino Film Festival is back once again to showcase the sights and sounds emerging from Latin America. Running from 13-28 November in Melbourne, the Festival will feature 26 films including a spotlight on new…
Difficult to describe, a pleasure to watch. Sometimes, a movie requires patience. Watching Georgian director Anna Urushadze’s Scary Mother, I kept trying to pinpoint the film’s genre. I would think it was a drama about a stifling marriage, until it…
Tells the stories that need to be told Storytelling plays a crucial role in Transit, a film about displacement during wartime, directed by Christian Petzold and adapted from Anna Segher’s novel. There’s a scene in which Georg (Franz Rogowski), a…
The most intense bonds are often the most unstable The best movies tell only the stories they need to tell, with only the resources they need. Directed by Debra Granik, Leave No Trace is perfectly minimal. Based on Peter Rock’s…