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Review | Secrets and God at the heart of ‘Nobody Has To Know’

Review | Secrets and God at the heart of ‘Nobody Has To Know’

Nobody Has To Know | Dir: Bouli Lanners | ★ ★ ★ ★  Phil (Bouli Lanners) is a middle-aged (possibly in his fifties) farm hand on a wind-swept Scottish island. His accent gives him away as being an outsider but after he suffers memory loss as the result of a stroke, it would seem that we are […]

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Research reveals impact of LGBTQ+ inclusion in cinema

Research reveals impact of LGBTQ+ inclusion in cinema

Researchers from Monash University Australia have released the findings of extensive research into LGBTQ+ inclusion in films and what that means for audiences and the box office. A team led by a Monash Business School researcher analysed 4216 contemporary Hollywood films from 2007 – 2014 and found that movies with LGBTQ+ inclusive representation significantly outperform […]

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Review | Channing Tatum sets out on emotional road trip in ‘Dog’

Review | Channing Tatum sets out on emotional road trip in ‘Dog’

Dog | Dir: Channing Tatum and Reid Carolin | ★ ★ ★ ★ Channing Tatum and his Magic Mike partner Reid Carolin were producers for the 2017 documentary War Dog: A Soldier’s Best Friend that explored the unbreakable bonds between military K9s and their elite Special Operations handlers. Moved by the physical and emotional challenges survived by […]

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Review | Unlikely sommeliers taste glory in ‘Blind Ambition’

Review | Unlikely sommeliers taste glory in ‘Blind Ambition’

Blind Ambition | Dir: Warwick Ross | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★   It is a successful formula for documentary makers to follow a group of competitors who are destined for success, often against the odds, in their chosen field, whether it is spelling, singing, swimming, sprinting, skateboarding or tobogganing. This time the competition is the annual World Blind […]

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6th annual Pride Queer Film Festival kicks off this week

6th annual Pride Queer Film Festival kicks off this week

The beloved Pride Queer Film Festival is returning bigger and better than ever for its sixth year, beginning their fabulous program this week. The program brings films from across a spectrum of LGBTQIA+ experiences across seven nights at The Backlot cinema, and for the first time mini-festivals will pop up in Albany, Geraldton, Kalgoorlie and […]

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Five films to check out at the Alliance Française French Film Festival

Five films to check out at the Alliance Française French Film Festival

The 2020 Alliance Française French Film Festival’s Perth season kicks off from 9th March and runs through to 6th April. There’s heaps of films in the program, here;s five that are at the top of our list. Anaïs in Love Anaïs in Love is a sensual, funny and endearing French romantic comedy. Young Anais (Anaïs Demoustier, Alice and […]

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Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’ biopic revealed in visually stunning trailer

Baz Luhrmann’s ‘Elvis’ biopic revealed in visually stunning trailer

Director Baz Lurhann has revealed the trailer for his upcoming biopic of Elvis Presley. The director has a history of creating visually stunning films that meld together film and music, his previous works include Strictly Ballroom, Romeo + Juliet, The Great Gatsby, Moulin Rouge and Australia.  Take a look at Elvis.  The film stars Austin Butler as Elvis […]

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Review | Kristen Stewart is perfection as Princess Diana in ‘Spencer’

Review | Kristen Stewart is perfection as Princess Diana in ‘Spencer’

Spencer | Dir: Pablo Larrain | ★ ★ ★ ★  When Princess Diana (Kristen Stewart) went to the compulsory family gathering that took place over Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and Boxing Day at Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, she had come a long way from the blushing virgin who married her prince ten years earlier. Pablo Larrain, who […]

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Review | Catch ‘La Traviata, My Brothers and I’ at UWA Somerville

Review | Catch ‘La Traviata, My Brothers and I’ at UWA Somerville

La Traviata, My Brothers and I | Dir: Yohan Manca | ★ ★ ★ ★  Yohan Manca’s first feature film was shot in Sète, a French fishing port and seaside resort on the Mediterranean. Beyond the expensive hotels, picturesque beaches and luxury yachts inhabited by the seasonal tourists, is a low-income housing filled with struggling families and […]

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Review | A divided England clashes in a cottage in ‘Fanny Lye Deliver’d’

Review | A divided England clashes in a cottage in ‘Fanny Lye Deliver’d’

Fanny Lye Deliver’d | Dir: Thomas Clay | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ It is 1657 and Fanny Lye (Maxine Peake) lives on a remote Shropshire farm in a simple thatched cottage with her husband John (Charles Dance) and young son Arthur (Zak Adams). Surrounded by mud and continually shrouded in mist and smoke, the cottage becomes the […]

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