There might need to be a content warning on Leah Nelson’s beautiful and heartfelt film that if you have experienced the loss of a parent, particularly to old age or long illness, it might make you cry.
Continue readingTangles (2026)
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Fatherland (Ojczyzna) (2026)
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This feels like a perfectly crafted film. As my friend Ariel said, not a single second is wasted. And at only 82 minutes, it shows how well you can tell a story without making it an epic.
Continue readingRose (2026)
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You know I love a black-and-white film, and pretty much any film with Sandra Hüller.
Continue readingOmaha (2025)
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I’m still feeling emotionally wrung out after this quietly intense drama, directed by Cole Webley but with the understated feels of writer Robert Machoian’s (The Killing of Two Lovers) all over it.
Continue readingEverything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
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I expected a kaleidoscope of kick-ass Michelle Yeoh martial arts awesomeness and got that and much more.
Continue readingCivil War (2024)
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There aren’t many films I watch where I feel my heart is in my mouth right up until the final act. Alex Garland is not one of my favourite directors so perhaps my expectations were slightly lowered for this intimate meditation on media and the personal choices we make.
Continue readingGreen Border (Zielona Granica) (2023)
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I sat in the front row of the Capital cinema for the first time to watch this intensely emotional epic from Agnieszka Holland as a man across the aisle from me was chewing on something that sounded like a hard lolly with his mouth open for the first 10 minutes of the film and I couldn’t handle it. The front row was a good choice as it enveloped me in the austerity and complexity of this story of asylum seekers in Europe.
Continue readingThe Outrun (2024)
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I couldn’t hold back the tears through the ending of this film. It ends with a magnificent crescendo of hope that I found profoundly beautiful and poignant, and then, as the credits roll, the first notes of The The’s This is the Day starts to play and I dissolved.
Continue readingThe Girl with the Needle (Pigen Med Nålen)(2024)
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Parasite (기생충) (2019)
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On my forays to Melbourne, I don’t often re-watch a film at the cinema – so many new films, so little time – but Parasite was worth a second go, especially as Cinema Nova was screening a black-and-white version.
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