Directed by Craig Lahoff (M) Driving cross-country to a job interview, Colin (David Lyons) takes a shortcut and witnesses a spectacular car accident. While one of the drivers Jina (Perth actor Emma Booth) is unhurt, the other is dead – leaving a suitcase of money without an owner. Hero Colin, a former soldier who has [...]
Directed by Dover Kosashvili (M) A seaside town in the Caucuses is the location for Dover Kosashvili’s adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s short story. We watch as Laevsky (Andrew Scott) lounges about in slippers all day, drinking, playing cards and occasionally getting up to kinky stuff with the rather large housemaid. At the time that Chekhov [...]
Directed by John Duigan (MA). Vietnamese Australian Linh (Nammi Le) is studying law at university. She is quiet, studious and respectful to her parents, even sending money home when her father loses his employment to help pay the family’s mortgage. However, when she tells her housemates that she is going to the library to study, [...]
Directed by Helmer Arcel (MA). Arcel has unearthed an exquisite piece of history from 18th century Denmark. When young Princess Caroline Mathilda (Alecia Vikander) travells from to Denmark England to marry her prince charming – King Christian VII (Mikkel Folsgaard), all her romantic ideals are quickly shattered. She is faced with a revolting, insulting and [...]
(M) Directed by Paolo Sorrentino. Every now and again, an actor goes to extraordinary lengths to create an unforgettable character and this is what Sean Penn does as he transforms into Cheyenne – a bored, wealthy, retired American glam rock star now living in Dublin. Based on The Cure’s Robert Smith, he is a complex [...]
(MA) Directed by Michael Winterbottom. Winterbottom takes Thomas Hardy’s classic Tess of the d’Urbervilles from the cold climes of nineteenth century England to the heat of modern day India. In Rajasthan, Trishna (Slumdog Millionaire’s Freida Pinto) has to go out to work when her father’s accident prevents him from earning an income because she is [...]
(PG) Directed by Emilio Estevez. While Charlie Sheen has been getting all the media attention for being an idiot, the rest of his family seem to be quietly getting on with more interesting endeavours. His brother, Emilio Estevez, known for his acting roles in The Breakfast Club, The Outsiders and Young Guns, has written and [...]
(MA) Directed by Kieran Darcy-Smith. Not long after Steph (Teresa Palmer) meets her exciting new boyfriend Jeremy (Antony Starr), she convinces her sister Alice (Felicity Price) and Alice’s husband Dave (Joel Edgerton) that they should all go to Cambodia for a holiday. Filmed in Cambodia, Wish You Were Here opens with a kaleidoscope of images [...]
Ecstasy (MA) (Directed by Rob Heydon) Irvine Welsh’s novel Trainspotting rocked the world with the uncompromising way it portrayed heroin addicts in squalid Edinburgh. Danny Boyle’s film, based on Welsh’s book, has to be rated as one of the most shocking and memorable films of all time. Equally confrontational, but fortunately not quite as shocking, [...]
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