Adelaide Film Festival: Knife + Heart
Yann Gonzalez pays homage to exploitation and slasher films while still finding room for emotional distress.
Browsing: Film Reviews
Adelaide Film Festival: Rafiki
This Kenyan-based, coming-of-age film is a refreshing change from the commercial stream out of Hollywood.
Adelaide Film Festival: Memories of My Body
An orphaned boy is taken in by a Lengger dance troupe where his starts to explore and understand his body through dance and the power of both masculine and feminine sensuality.
Film Review: In Like Flynn
A corny mish-mash based on Errol Flynn’s auto-biography.
Adelaide Film Festival: Shoplifters
Hirokazu Koreeda crafts what may be his finest feature yet.
Adelaide Film Festival: Putin’s Witnesses
Vitaly Mansky’s personal and intimate portrait of the meteoric rise of Vladimir Putin.
Adelaide Film Festival: World Shorts Package
It is definitely worthwhile digging into the buffet of world-class short films gracing our screens at this year’s Adelaide Film Festival.
Adelaide Film Festival: Backtrack Boys
The most moving and important documentary to be made in Australia in the last 20 years.
Film Review: The Second
Rachael Blake and Vince Colosimo star in this psychological drama about an author and her struggles to write her second work.
Adelaide Film Festival: Girl
Tackles the complex topic of gender transition with the utmost delicacy.
Film Review: Donbass
Sergei Loznitsa’s lavish fantasy of war and survival in Eastern Ukraine.
Film Review: Guilty
Sleeth looks to bring into undeniable clarity the last 72 hours of Myuran Sukumaran’s life.
Film Review: Venom
This movie teeters on that fine line between being just plain bad and being so bad that it’s good.
Film Review: The Order of Things
A work of noble intentions that promises far more than it actually achieves.
Film Review: Euforia
This feature’s impact hits closer to the level of a tele-movie.
Film Review: Kin
A fast-action, sci-fi, crime thriller.
Film Review: My Big Gay Italian Wedding
This light-hearted comedy will bring a smile to your face.
Italian Film Festival Review: Put Nonna in the Freezer (Metti la Nonna in Freezer)
When Claudia’s grandmother dies, she is convinced to put the body in her freezer to keep claiming the pension cheques, even as romance begins to blossom between her and a romantically hapless Tax Police officer.
Italian Film Festival Review: Loro (Them)
A quirky, fictional biopic of controversial billionaire, media mogul and four-time Prime Minister of Italy, Silvio Berlusconi.
Film Review: Hearts Beat Loud
An easy, enjoyable watch.