Tag: film

Pan Review

An inappropriately fast paced feast of outlandish extravagance and underwhelming emotions as well as characters. Over the years Joe Wright has proven himself to be a capable director with the likes of Anna Karenina, Atonement and Pride & Prejudice, as…

The Wolfpack: Another Eccentricity in the Heart of Manhattan

The Wolfpack Dir.Crystal Moselle/ U.S/ Documentary/ 2015/ 80 mins This documentary intimately immerses us in the life of the Angulo family; a family conformed by a Peruvian dad, an American mum and 7 siblings. They all live in Manhattan, and…

Sydney Latin American Film Festival’s 10th Birthday Bash

For your Latin American cultural fix, the Sydney Latin American Film Festival has something, or rather lots of things, for you. It will be all about FIESTA time! This year SLAFF is turning 10 and they have decided to celebrate…

Everest Review

A visually stunning feature offering a well-rounded telling of the facts, yet with underdeveloped characters that aren’t quite memorable.  From the director of 2 Guns, Baltasar Kormákur brings you a closer look of the 1996 Mount Everest expedition led by Rob Hall…

The 9th Sydney Underground Film Festival: Undergroundlicious!

Last Thursday night SUFF began at a very unusual location for film festivals, at the Factory Theatre in Marrickville. It was sponsored by a very unique beer company – a local brewery in Newtown, and screened a very particular 3D…

CASTALDI IN FOCUS: A UNIQUE FILM EXPERIENCE IN PARRAMATTA

Riverside has made it easy for all of us who are passionate about film. They have industry personality Peter Castaldi to curate, put together and make possible the screening of a film program perfect for cinema lovers. With such wide…

Sydney Underground Film Festival 2015

Best film events taking place in Sydney this spring

Sydney Film Festival is one of the longest-running film festivals in the world and this year’s attendance was a record 176,000, up 13 per cent on last year’s event. Simon Stone’s The Daughter wowed audiences, Jeremy Sims’s Last Cab To…

5 Flights Up

5 Flights Up Review

Acclaimed British director Richard Loncraine’s latest film offers a saccharine view of New York real estate through the eyes of a long-married couple. 5 Flights Up joins elderly couple, Alex and Ruth Carver, as they contemplate selling the fifth-floor Brooklyn flat they…