Lesson one: don’t watch a 2 1/2 hour slow French film at 9:30 pm at night at the Comedy Theatre.
Continue readingAnatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d’une Chute) (2023)
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Biosphere (2022)
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That an IMDb user gave this one star and called it “an LGBTQ+ movie disguised as a sci-fi” makes me like it even more.
Continue readingSorcery (Brujería) (2023)
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I love a bit of folk horror and Chilean director Christopher Murray takes us on a slow and compelling journey through colonisation.
Continue readingFranklin (2022)
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My mum was politically conservative. She and my dad were Liberal voters but I still remember the yellow triangular No Dams sticker on her car.
Continue readingThe Lost City of Melbourne (2022)
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A gentle love letter to Melbourne that will make you look up with a new appreciation of what you probably walk past every day.
Continue readingOldboy (올드보이) (2003)
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I’m not sure what I was expecting from Oldboy but I didn’t think it would be quite so hard to watch.
Continue readingMass (2021)
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What might you say if you came face to face with the parents of the child who killed your child?
Continue readingLeonor Will Never Die (Ang Pagbabalik ng Kwago) (2022)
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Leonor Will Never Die takes us on a madcap ride through Filipino 80s action movies that is so meta it is like a Möbius strip.
Continue readingThe Humans (2021)
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This very confident directing debut from writer Stephen Karam has star power that will pull many an unsuspecting viewer into an inexorably bleak story.
Continue reading1976 (2022)
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Pinochet’s Chile in 1976 is a time where any opposition to his dictatorship meant quiet disappearance and torture or murder out of the public eye.
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