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. Rosie Jones’ The Family is a profoundly…
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 coming to Sydney from 30 March to 2 April, featuring plenty of Ireland’s…
Aussie Disney fans young and old were treated to an enchanting red-carpet premiere of the recent live-action remake of Disney classic Beauty and the Beast, directed by Bill Condon. Held at the opulent State Theatre in Sydney’s CBD, slender waiters…
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…
Come one, come all! The freakiest film festival out there is returning in 2017. After a smash success in Melbourne with 2016’s Monster Fest, Sydney is getting treated (or tricked) with the Monster Fest Travelling Sideshow. The festival, running 9–12…
The Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre opened its doors Saturday evening for a screening of the Indian movie The Lunchbox with the Sydney Film Festival. In addition, the monthly film screening can be booked with a movie-themed dinner at the Powerhouse. Frederico Rokowski…
Everybody who wants to see a Tony-Award winning Broadway musical has the chance to do so at selected cinemas across Australia on Sunday 19 February. The stage performance of the Disney musical ‘Newsies‘ was filmed in Hollywood in 2016 and will…
Summer is in the air and what better way to saunter the shores of the iconic Bondi beach than to experience the most influential dedicated short film event on the Australian landscape – Flickerfest (6-15 January 2017). Now in its 26th year,…
‘Welcome, welcome!’ We were greeted by a ridiculously pink eccentric character that popped out from the mayor’s house as my partner and I walked off the red carpet. Effie Trinket continued doling out her usual lovely Capitol banter on us before…
Wednesday night in a galaxy not so far away, a force took over Sydney. Australian media personalities, actors, bloggers, cosplayers, and fans were privy to a premiere screening of the latest by director Gareth Edwards, Rogue One: A Star Wars…