Soda_Jerk & Sam Smith, ‘Hollywood Burn’
Magnificent Revolution are bringing their pedal-powered cinema to Melbourne (Bar 303, to be exact) and the film being hooked up to the bikes is Soda_Jerk... read more...
Click! Fashion Photographers on Film, 'David Bailey: Four Beats to the Bar and No Cheating'
Swinging ’60s London photographer David Bailey inspired Antonioni’s Blow Up, and his muses have included Jean Shrimpton, Penelope Tree, Anjelica ... read more...
Fuel Tank TV first annual DVD
Like all busy and talented people, when the opportunity arose to do another project, Luke Ray (Fuel Magazine) and Tom Broadhurst (Bandit Films) took it... read more...
Headhunters
Morten Tyldum’s thriller is based on the bestselling novel by Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbø, but it’s no po-faced Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. ... read more...
Speakeasy Cinema presents 'The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye'
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye explores one couple’s ‘art project’ to become increasingly like each other through plastic surgery;... read more...
50/50
Based on screenwriter Will Reiser’s real-life diagnosis with a rare spinal tumour, 50/50 gets that having cancer can be both funny and terrifying. Sure,... read more...
We Were Here
David Weissman’s documentary We Were Here chronicles the dramatic effect AIDS had on ’60s and ’70s San Francisco, transforming it from... read more...
Buck
Buck Brannaman, who consulted on Robert Redford’s film The Horse Whisperer and was one of the models for the title character, is a legend in ‘natural... read more...
'Buck' Interview
Directed by Cindy Meehl, Buck reflects on real-life cowboy Buck Brannaman’s transformation from an abused, affection-starved child to a generous, game-changing... read more...
One In A Million 2012
Reality program One In A Million is the most accurate portrayal I’ve seen of how skaters actually are; how they look, talk, socialise, and skate.... read more...
Shame
Steve McQueen’s beautifully crafted drama recalls Drive, and not just for transforming Manhattan into the same gritty, jaded demimonde as Refn’s... read more...
Elia Kazan at Melbourne Cinémathèque
Melbourne Cinémathèque, the ACMI-based rare film club, is about to start its weekly 2012 program with a season dedicated to director Elia Kazan. Kazan... read more...
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Writer-director Sean Durkin’s debut feature is subtly, almost perfectly calibrated between idyllic and terrifying, all the way to its chillingly ambiguous... read more...
The Artist
Michel Hazanavicius’s now ten-times-Oscar-nominated film is the story of George Valentin (Jean Dujardin), a silent movie star who rejects the incipient... read more...
Weekend
Russell sits at work with a blistering hangover, repeatedly revising a text to a guy he picked up the night before: “I feel like shit.” Should... read more...
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Where Ian Fleming’s espionage is flip and glamorous, John Le Carré’s is dreary and cynical; George Smiley is the anti-James Bond. Still, director... read more...
Morning of the Earth
Albie Falzon’s Morning of The Earth (1972) is sometimes described as the greatest surf movie ever made. Other times it is described by my uncle... read more...
Young Adult
Some films really get you in the guts, and for me Young Adult was one. At times bitingly funny and achingly sad, Jason Reitman’s dramedy recalls Bad... read more...
The Interrupters
Directed by Steve James (Hoop Dreams), The Interrupters documents a year in the life of Chicago’s ‘violence interrupters’, an innovative... read more...
Vincent Moon, 'An Island', presented by Sugar Mountain and The Thousands
Parisian filmmaker Vincent Moon has chosen the chamber pop of the stupidly talented Danish band Efterklang for his latest investigation. The film follows... read more...
Mars
Geoff Marslett’s Mars is a science fiction, romantic comedy live-action animation. Nominally rotoscoped, it feels more like Ralph Bakshi’s... read more...
The Iron Lady
What better traditional holiday entertainment than a rollicking English pantomime? This political fairytale is seasonably hilarious, and ultra-conservative... read more...
The Skin I Live In
Both preposterously serious and blackly playful, Pedro Almodóvar’s melodrama explores how trauma and perversion are literally inscribed on the body.... read more...
Don't Need You - The Herstory Of Riot Grrrl
To understand why Riot Grrrl mattered, you need to know that ’80s punk and hardcore shows were a major sausage fest. Mostly male bands played to... read more...