By David Pountain Round table interview conducted by FilmDoo, Hangul Celluloid and TooMuchNoiseBlog Between Bong Joon-ho’s already classic 2006 monster movie The Host, Park Chan-wook’s cult hit Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, recent Wachowski projects Cloud Atlas, […]
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 […]
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 […]