By Rebecca Rowson Australia’s 52 Tuesdays begins with a teenager, Billie, finding out her mother plans to transition into a man and change his name to James. Whilst James goes through this, he wants to […]
Month: September 2015
By Hannah Drennan Directed by Barmak Akram It’s certainly surprising when we hear the protagonist – a young Afghan girl – ask her mother “what shall I wear?†and perhaps even more unexpected is her mother’s […]
By David Pountain The history of foreign filmmakers managing to find critical and commercial success in Hollywood goes at least as far back as the early 1920s when the great Ernst Lubitsch made the journey […]
By David Pountain Directed by Naeem Mahmood and Ash Mahmood Naeem and Ash Mahmood’s Brash Young Turks is a brazen and restless crime drama about a brazen and restless generation. Built to be a hyper-sensory experience […]
By Jane McKerrow and David Pountain Drawing comparisons to Donald Cammell’s Performance, David Cronenberg’s Shivers and Bong Joon-Ho’s Snowpiercer, one would assume A Field In England director Ben Wheatley’s latest feature would be a hit […]
By David Pountain Directed by Jake Mahaffy Venice Film Festival review In the Old Testament’s Book of Job, the consistently devout eponymous man, after suffering a horrendous series of undeserved misfortunes, is forced to accept that the […]