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December, 2023
Modern Prometheans: ‘Poor Things’ and ‘All of Us Strangers’
Emma Stone seeks a moral conscience in Yorgos Lanthimos’s upended Frankenstein grotesque, while Andrew Haigh delivers a metaphysical coming-out story
December, 2023
The local debut of the SXSW film, TV, music and tech fair is a sign the road to Hollywood now runs in both directions
November, 2023
The candles flicker and dim: ‘Mutiny in Heaven: The Birthday Party’
Ian White’s documentary captures the incendiary trajectory of the seminal Melbourne band at the expense of the inertia that fuelled it
November, 2023
Into the streaming void: ‘The Killer’ and ‘They Cloned Tyrone’
David Fincher’s stylish pulp and Juel Taylor’s SF-adjacent satire are the latest riches to be taken for granted in the ever-ready, abundant world of Netflix
October, 2023
Venice International Film Festival 2023 highlights
Cuban drama ‘Oceans Are the Real Continents’, hypnotic Nepalese debut ‘The Red Suitcase’, and documentary ‘Photophobia’, following those sheltering in Kharkiv’s underground metro stations, are among this year’s stand-outs
October, 2023
Histories of violence: ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ and ‘El Conde’
Martin Scorsese’s first Western mishandles its story of colonial exploitation, while Pablo Larraín’s darkly humorous, black-and-white satire delivers Pinochet as a vampire
September, 2023
Major minors: ‘Last Film Show’ and ‘Scrapper’
Feature films from Pan Nalin and Charlotte Regan tell stories of children whose difficult circumstances don’t deprive them of community and love
August, 2023
Mark Leonard Winter’s portrait of wounded men in ‘The Rooster’ and Isabel Darling’s epic documentary about showground life ‘The Carnival’ are among the new Australian works screening at the Melbourne International Film Festival
August, 2023
Pleasure principles: Director Molly Manning Walker
The British director’s debut feature film, ‘How to Have Sex’, is a deeply empathetic exploration of teenage friendship, social pressures and consent
August, 2023
Close encounters of the shared kind: ‘Past Lives’
Korean debut filmmaker Celine Song’s elegant three-part love story embraces the Buddhist idea of encounters over many incarnations