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“On Wednesdays we wear pink” Perth gets dressed up for ‘Mean Girls’

Perth’s movers and shakers turned up in their best pink outfits on Wednesday night to see the new musical version of Mean Girls.   Tina Fey’s legendary 2004 film was transformed into a Broadway musical in 2018 and now it makes it way to the big screen. The new film features Australian actor Angourie Rice as Cady […]

Review | ‘Rosalie’ offers tale of self-acceptance for Perth Festival

Review | ‘Rosalie’ offers tale of self-acceptance for Perth Festival

Rosalie | Dir: Stéphanie Di Giusto | ★ ★ ★ ★ ½  Set in rural France in the 1870s, Rosalie (Nadia Tereszkiewicz) is deposited by her father at the house belonging to café owner Abel (Benoît Magimal), who is drowning in debt and desperate for the dowry she brings. But the beautiful Rosalie has a secret that […]

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Review | ‘Wonka’ offers warm-hearted film about chasing dreams

Review | ‘Wonka’ offers warm-hearted film about chasing dreams

Wonka | Dir: Paul King | ★ ★ ★ ★  Roald Dahl’s 1964 book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory has been made into two unforgettable films – Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in 1971 with Gene Wilder as the crazy, scary chocolatier and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory in 2005 with Johnny Depp as a wacky […]

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Review | Emerald Fennell’s ‘Saltburn’ is a confronting gothic horror

Review | Emerald Fennell’s ‘Saltburn’ is a confronting gothic horror

Saltburn | Dir: Emerald Fennell | ★ ★ ★ ★ ½  Written from his experiences at Oxford University and his friendships with the British aristocratic set, Evelyn Waugh’s 1945 book Brideshead Revisited allowed readers to become voyeurs into the upper-class privilege of the obscenely wealthy British aristocracy. The very seductive Saltburn is a similar tale of […]

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‘Copa 71’ is a mind-blowing documentary about women in soccer

‘Copa 71’ is a mind-blowing documentary about women in soccer

Copa 71 | Dir: Rachel Ramsay and James Erskine | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Thanks to Sam Kerr and the Matildas (a word I have just had to add to the computer’s dictionary), many of us have discovered that not only can women play soccer, but they can actually play it incredibly well. This mind-blowing documentary […]

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The Mean Girls are back in a new remake of the much-loved film

The Mean Girls are back in a new remake of the much-loved film

In a move that is sure to make some of us recognise the passage of time, they’ve remade Mean Girls. The trailer for the new film expected in 2024 has just been released, take a look. What you might not get from the trailer is this new iteration of the adventures of Cady, Janis, Damian […]

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First look at Queer Screen’s 31st Mardi Gras Film Festival

First look at Queer Screen’s 31st Mardi Gras Film Festival

Queer Screen’s 31st Mardi Gras Film Festival has unveiled a sneak peek at the incredible cinematic journey awaiting audiences from 15 to 29 February in Sydney, before an on-demand encore 1 to 11 March nationwide. The festival promises a kaleidoscope of LGBTIQ+ stories showcasing both Australian and Sydney premieres from across the globe screening at […]

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Review | A family finds out who they are in ‘Pretty Red Dress’

Review | A family finds out who they are in ‘Pretty Red Dress’

Pretty Red Dress | Dir: Dionne Edwards | ★ ★ ★ ★ ½  Set in South London, the film opens with an energetic rendition of Tina Turner’s You Shoulda Treated Me Right. Written and directed by Dionne Edwards, it explores expectations of Black, working-class masculinity and the harm done by society’s rigidly binary gender expectations. Candice (Alexandra […]

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Review | ‘The Origin of Evil’ offers thrilling, melodramatic black comedy

Review | ‘The Origin of Evil’ offers thrilling, melodramatic black comedy

The Origin of Evil | Dir: Sébastien Marnier | ★ ★ ★ ★ ½  Stéphane (Laure Calamy) works in a sardine cannery and is struggling financially. She has regular conjugal visits with her girlfriend (Suzanne Clement), who has been found guilty of pushing her previous lover off a balcony to her death and is now in jail. […]

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Review | ‘Lie With Me’ shows the lasting impact of young love

Review | ‘Lie With Me’ shows the lasting impact of young love

Lie With Me | Dir Oliver Peyon | DATE | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★   Based on a hugely successful autobiographical novel by Philippe Bresson, this emotionally charged film takes us to the picturesque countryside of the south west of France. Acclaimed author Stéphane Belcourt (Guillaume de Tonquebec) returns to the small village of his childhood after 35 […]

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