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‘Challengers’ is the next film from director Luca Guadagnino

‘Challengers’ is the next film from director Luca Guadagnino

Challengers is the next film from director Luca Guadagnino, who previously created A Bigger Splash, Call Me By Your Name and Bones and All.  The trailer for the film shows a love triangle between three aspiring teenage tennis stars, and then picks up their story years later when then lives have moved on to a different configuration. The […]

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Exhumed with Divine: Liberty Theatre’s celluloid revival

Exhumed with Divine: Liberty Theatre’s celluloid revival

What a Divine way to spend your weekend with the last days and nights of Exhumed Cinema Celluloid Revival. A revived, resuscitated and reopened Liberty Theatre on Barrack Street Perth City. Featuring an expertly curated selection of cult and classic films programmed in 35mm & 16mm film, at Perth City’s original 1950s arthouse cinema, with […]

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Gilbert Baker Film Festival streaming LGBTQIA+ cinema around the world

Gilbert Baker Film Festival streaming LGBTQIA+ cinema around the world

The Gilbert Baker Film Festival (GBFF) is a global film festival that provides a platform to watch LGBTQIA+ films from anywhere in the world. Founded by the late great Gilbert Baker, the creator of the original rainbow flag, GBFF will hold its fifth festival run this June and July. The 2022 festival was delayed due to […]

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Review | Treason case inspires fascinating FBI drama ‘Reality’

Review | Treason case inspires fascinating FBI drama ‘Reality’

Reality | Dir: Tina Satter | ★ ★ ★ ★ ½  It was Saturday 3 June when 25 year-old Reality Winner (Sydney Sweeney) arrived back to her rented Georgia home after doing the shopping. She was confronted by two smiling FBI agents – Garrick (Josh Hamilton) and Taylor (Marchánt Davis) – whose smiles faded as they questioned her […]

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‘Staring at Strangers’ gives a new perspective on being in the closet

‘Staring at Strangers’ gives a new perspective on being in the closet

Staring at Strangers | Dir: Félix Viscarret | ★ ★ ★ ★ ½  After being fired from his carpentry job after 20 years, all Damián (Paco León) wanted to do was to smash something and get away from the place. With his boss on his tail, and dropping his keys under his car, the only place to […]

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Support the Western Swifts at their ‘Pride’ movie night

Support the Western Swifts at their ‘Pride’ movie night

Show your support for the Western Swifts this Saturday night by snapping up some tickets to their film fundraiser. They’ll be celebrating international pride month with a screen of the amazing film Pride.  Matthew Marchus’s film shares the amazing story of how the queer community and striking coal miners found solidarity in Britain in the early […]

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Scandinavian Film Festival returns this July and August

Scandinavian Film Festival returns this July and August

The 2023 Scandinavian Film Festival returns to Perth 20 July – 9 August with a line-up that will warm the winter chill. Showcasing the best new cinema from the Nordic region, a selection of first highlights have been announced which provide a first look to what’s to come for lovers of Scandi cinema. With fresh new films […]

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Ben Young’s ‘Devil’s Peak’ to open Revelation 2023

Ben Young’s ‘Devil’s Peak’ to open Revelation 2023

Devil’s Peak the new crime thriller from director Ben Young will open the 2023 Revelation Perth International Film Festival in July. The Perth based director generated huge acclaim for his debut feature Hounds of Love, before going to make the Netflix film Extinction. His third feature film stars Billy Bob Thornton, Robin Wright, Hopper Penn and Emma Booth and is set […]

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Pioneering gay filmmaker Kenneth Anger dies aged 96

Pioneering gay filmmaker Kenneth Anger dies aged 96

Director Kenneth Anger, a pioneer in the world of queer filmmaking, has died aged 96. His groundbreaking avant-garde films included homoeroticism and surrealism, and he has been hailed as one of the first gay filmmakers. Many of his early works were released prior to homosexuality being made legal in the USA. He has been cited […]

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Review | Vampire comedy ‘Renfield’ delivers bloody good laughs

Review | Vampire comedy ‘Renfield’ delivers bloody good laughs

Renfield | Dir: Chris McKay | ★ ★ ★ ★ This irreverent comedy/horror is a modern take on the Dracula story, with Nicolas Cage (who first sunk his teeth into the Prince of Darkness role in the 1988 black comedy Vampire’s Kiss) excelling as the immortal with an insatiable thirst for human blood – preferably from pure […]

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