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In the near future, universities will no doubt be bombarded with Phd topics involving the Trump era, just as they were post 9/11 when life inspired a new narrative take on storytelling. Artists have always responded to social change and political upheaval in order to contribute to the conversation through their own medium or because they
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Screen Queensland’s move to revive the dormant Brisbane International Film Festival in partnership with Palace Cinemas has stoked concerns that the festival scene is being hijacked by commercial interests. The growing influence of Palace Cinemas on the film festival circuit may not mean that much on the surface says Mark Taylor, who sits on the
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By Ben Neutze
There are several ways in which Matt Okine’s new series for local streaming service Stan is similar to Josh Thomas’s critical darling Please Like Me. Both shows follow a popular millennial Australian stand-up as he goes through a period of transition in his young adult life. Both take place in inner suburban sharehouses and cafes. Both feature
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The frosty skies and magnificent New Zealand mountains provided more than pretty scaffolding in the first season of Jane Campion’s Top of the Lake: they informed the very heart and soul of it. Like the Tasmanian-based, mystery sci-fi The Kettering Incident, a darkly magical synergy bound, like bolts from a wand, the central location to
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By Daily Review
Meet Ali, the charming son of a Muslim cleric who despite the best of intentions, just can’t seem to make the right life choices. Ali dreams big – he wants to be with the girl he loves, but he’s been promised to another girl at his father’s mosque. He wants to be the great doctor
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By Daily Review
It’s 25 years since Scott and Fran danced — and danced their own steps — into the hearts of Australians, in Baz Luhrmann’s enduring debut feature film, Strictly Ballroom. To celebrate the film’s milestone, the National Film and Sound Archive has launched an online exhibition looking “behind the red curtain” at the film’s creation and success.
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The first thought that strikes you when entering the voluminous space – literally and metaphorically – of a film festival is that the ever seductive small screen has led us astray. There is nothing like sitting in the glorious auditorium of The Forum in the middle of the day and being transported to multiple, tiny
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WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD As Game of Thrones continues its race against the clock to wrap up its narrative, it’s becoming increasingly clear what kind of show it has morphed into. Last week was a brilliant showcase of what it can do better than any other TV show has before. But Eastwatch is an inelegant instalment
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By Daily Review
In Universal Pictures’ American Made, Tom Cruise reunites with his Edge of Tomorrow director, Doug Liman, in this international escapade based on the outrageous (and real) exploits of Barry Seal, a hustler and pilot unexpectedly recruited by the CIA to run one of the biggest covert operations in U.S. history. Daily Review has FIVE double passes to
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The visuals in director Luc Besson’s phantasmagoric, candy-coloured, magic carpet ride sci-fi, Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, are – by anybody’s definition and in every meaning of the word – fantastic, so best to address that first. The film has the sort of overflowing, eye-watering, glaringly intense aesthetic that might make Hieronymus
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