In Review
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Italian Film Fest 2024 Review - Gloria!
Margherita Vicario’s directorial debut is a lively feature that sings with heartfelt moments and comedic witticisms alike, pulling audiences in for a story that is nothing short of glorious.
Italian Film Fest 2024 Review - The Beautiful Summer
If you like pretty Italian towns then you might find some enjoyment, but if you're looking for a compelling film I suggest you look elsewhere.
Film Review - The Conformist (4K Restoration)
Being able to see such a beautiful restoration on the big screen is worth the price of admission alone, and I could not recommend The Conformist more.
Film Review - La Chimera
A patchwork quilt of genres, Alice Rohrwacher’s La Chimera is a grimy and charismatic fairytale, and Josh O’Connor is its beating heart.
Feature - Fantastic Film Festival Australia 2024 Program Launch/Immaculate
Fans of bizarre, esoteric and extreme films, who live around Melbourne and Sydney can rejoice, because it's that time of year - Fantastic Film Festival Australia is back once again.
Film Review - Io Capitano
Io Capitano offers audiences an empathetic and raw portrayal of the harrowing challenges asylum seekers face, simply in order to have a better life that so many of us take for granted.
Film Review - Ferrari
High octane thrills, chills and an (un)healthy dosage of familial anguish – Michael Mann’s Ferrari is an exhilarating portrait of a man whose complexity is shaped by a past scarred by immense grief.
MIFF 2023 Film Review - Phenomena
Featuring Argento at his most feverishly creative, Phenomena lives up to its title, providing an experience that's as difficult to rationalise as it is rare to come by.
Film Review - EO
EO is a bold and bray-ve exploration of modern Europe through the eyes of a circus donkey who embarks on a long and lonely journey.
Europa Europa Film Festival 2022 Film Review - Amanda
Writer-Director Carolina Cavalli’s debut Italian feature film Amanda follows the titular character as she sets about aggressively re-befriending her long-lost childhood friend turned recluse Rebecca.
Film Review - Bones and All
Playing like an emotional middle ground between Badlands and the Twilight saga, Luca Guadagnino's new Timothee Chalamet-starrer Bones and All is a romantic cannibal road movie, presenting a tale of both the impossibility and inevitability of love; how even in the bleakest of circumstances, when we least expect, or even want it, romance can blossom like a weed in the desert.
ST. ALi Italian Film Festival 2022 Film Review - The Shadow of the Day
What does it mean to be a patriot? Would you betray your country in favour of the human race?
ST. ALi Italian Film Festival 2022 Film Review - The Inner Cage
Screening at the 2022 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival which runs 13th September to 16th October.
ST. ALi Italian Film Festival 2022 Film Review - The King of Laughter
Screening at the 2022 ST. ALi Italian Film Festival which runs 13th September to 16th October.
ST. ALi Italian Film Festival 2022 Film Review - Belli Ciao
Belli Ciao isn’t the most high-brow of satires, and in some parts the laughs are a bit sparse, but there are a couple of genuine ones for sure.
Film Review - Suspiria
It'd be hard to prime anyone for the journey the feature takes you on, and to do so would in part ruin the fun. It's a thunderous Pandora's Box of a film, a disorganised mixed bag of funhouse tricks that's rewarding sporadically, but always daring.