Bobby Fischer Against The World
That old chestnut about genius being touched with madness is a dead horse that’s been beaten to a pulp. Yet it’s hard to watch this gripping... read more...
UWA Film Society screenings
Essentially, the Film Society is a friendly, convenient and completely free place in which to see interesting, odd, and just generally good films you... read more...
Jiro Dreams of Sushi
Jiro doesn’t dream of sushi. He lives vicariously through the stuff. The standard accumulations of life -friends, family, age, and wealth- seem completely... read more...
Wish You Were Here
Australian ‘terror-in-paradise’ flicks are so routinely shithouse that I wasn’t expecting much from this. But refreshingly, it brings the horror... read more...
Café de Flore
The striking imagery and faith in music’s transformative power that made Canadian writer/director Jean-Marc Vallée’s C.R.A.Z.Y. so memorable is back... read more...
'Nude Study' Film Screening at The Oats Factory Gallery
In an awesome pairing of underground art film and independent art space, Ghetto Video’s Ivan Borgnino is hosting a screening of Nude Study inside the... read more...
Rooftop Movies - Second Season
Rooftop Movies has extended its program for a second season! read more...
This Must Be The Place
In Paolo Sorrentino’s first English-language drama, retired goth-rocker Cheyenne (Sean Penn) leaves Ireland and his no-nonsense wife Jane (Frances McDormand)... read more...
A Dangerous Method
The name David Cronenberg conjures ideas of abject bodies, fragile subjectivities and perverse sexualities. Seems like an ideal directorial pedigree for... read more...
The Raid
Action flicks’ videogame structure – progressing through various levels, dispatching enemies and defeating bosses – attracts criticism on both moral... read more...
The Rum Diary
It’s 1960, and Paul Kemp (Johnny Depp) is a borderline alcoholic who’s already been fired from most major US newspapers, but he’s the most normal... 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...
In Retrospect: 60 Years of Festival Film
Commemorating six decades of subtitled film fare, PIAF has programmed a week of classic titles previously screened during its run. It’s eclectic fare... read more...
Headhunters
Morten Tyldum’s thriller Headhunters is based on the bestselling novel by Norwegian crime writer Jo Nesbø, but it’s no po-faced Girl with the Dragon... read more...
Thousands Perth & On William present 'Bitches & Witches' – Rooftop Movies Double
A sumptuously visual double feature with razor sharp wit and razor sharp wire, Bitches and Witches takes us back to the nightmare we always knew school... 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...
Tabloid
Beauty queen Joyce McKinney meets the man of her dreams, but he’s a Mormon and his sect don’t quite dig her. When he disappears to the UK to complete... 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 Los... read more...
Goodbye, First Love
Goodbye, First Love is a delicate and affective film: Hansen-Løve’s direction is knowing but unpretentious. In a similar vein as recent indie releases Norwegian... 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...
Weekend
Weekend does an excellent job portraying the many modern day complexities of meeting someone you like, letting (or not letting) them know, and starting... read more...
'Buck' Interview
Directed by Cindy Meehl, Buck (screening at Perth Festival) reflects on real-life cowboy Buck Brannaman’s transformation from an abused, affection-starved... read more...
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
In Alfredson’s hands, the MI6 offices – “the Circus” – become suffocating brown panopticons whose tea-sipping inhabitants scrutinise each other’s... read more...