Charting a young Indigenous man’s journey from metaphorical birth to the hard realities and saving cultural nourishment of urban Aboriginal life today, Spear is a unique experience in urgent storytelling through movement from first-time feature director and celebrated choreographer Stephen […]
It’s not so much the destination but the physical and emotional journey embarked on in this thoughtful, culturally authentic road trip about a dying cabbie whose quest for euthanasia leads him instead to friendship, redemption and love. There is a […]
When taken on it’s own, The 5th Wave is an effectively decent post-apocalyptic, young adult, world-in-the-balance survival thriller. Yet the multitudinous devotees of Rick Yancey’s wildly successful 2013 novel may have issues more for what’s edited or left out entirely […]
Deeply involving and emotionally searing, The Daughter reps a confident and profoundly moving big-screen debut for established theatre director Simon Stone. Those familiar with Henrik Ibsen’s play, which Stone freely adapted for the Sydney stage in 2011, will find its […]
Nothing against production designer Ross Wallace, but if a documentary film needs a production designer at all it’s a sure sign something’s afoot. Such is the case with Women He’s Undressed, the first film in five years from celebrated veteran […]
In desperate need of a fairy godmother to transform it from one of Australia’s most popular and successful TV sitcoms to a viable big-screen franchise, strained and scattershot ocker comedy Kath & Kimderella instead overstays its welcome and turns into […]
Prizing substance over style, boxing doco Champs uses the career trajectories of celebrated fighters Bernard Hopkins, Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson to illustrate what’s right and wrong with the currently soured sweet science. As blunt and methodical as the now-soured […]
Any Mamma Mia! fans out there? Those who haven’t stopped reading are directed to the indefatigably upbeat musical concoction Sunshine on Leith, which rips a page out of the big-screen adaptation of the ABBA musical by deploying the music of […]
Promising “a night of inspiration,” dedicated “in loving memory” to pic’s subject Louis Zamperini, director-producer Angelina Jolie presented the world preem of her second film as helmer, Universal’s international release Unbroken, to a packed State Theatre in downtown Sydney, Australia, […]
How to approach the moral conundrum that is Lance Armstrong? After denying for a decade his use of illegal substances to enhance his already remarkable physical prowess and stamina, he finally came clean to Oprah Winfrey in January 2013. This […]