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Review | Intergenerational connection at the heart of ‘Juniper’

Review | Intergenerational connection at the heart of ‘Juniper’

Juniper | Dir: Matthew Saville | ★ ★ ★ ★  Based on memories from his youth, New Zealander Matthew Saville writes and directs his first feature film. As a teenager, his alcoholic grandmother moved in to live with his family while recovering from an illness and the film has been named after the berry used to flavour […]

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Screen Australia announce return of First Nations Creators program

Screen Australia announce return of First Nations Creators program

Screen Australia’s First Nations Department and Meta Australia have announced the return of the First Nations Creators Program for Instagram. For the second year in a row the First Nations Creators Program will continue to foster First Nations talent, amplify their voices online and help create long term career prospects in social media and digital […]

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Queer film director Bruce LaBruce returns with ‘Saint Narcisse’ 

Queer film director Bruce LaBruce returns with ‘Saint Narcisse’ 

Saint Narcisse | Dir: Bruce LaBruce | ★ ★ ★ ½  As the title suggests, the main character of this B-Grade film has a fetish for looking at himself, whether it be in a reflection or capturing his image by taking Polaroid photographs. Twenty-two year old Dominic Beauchamp (Felix Antoine Duval) is a fine young man and a […]

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Review | Documentary thriller ‘Navalny’ must-see at Rev Film Fest

Review | Documentary thriller ‘Navalny’ must-see at Rev Film Fest

Navalny | Dir: Daniel Roher | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★  The poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny made the news all around the world. In August 2020, the outspoken Navalny, who is the only real challenger to Putin, was flying from Siberia back to Moscow when he became violently ill. The plane made a detour to […]

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Review | ‘The Kitchen Brigade’ share community and culture on a plate

Review | ‘The Kitchen Brigade’ share community and culture on a plate

The Kitchen Brigade | Dir: Louis-Julien Petit | ★ ★ ★ ★  Cathy Marie (Audrey Lamy) and Fatoumata (Fatoumata Kaba) are best friends but they are completely different. Forty year-old Cathy is a well-known sous chef with a signature dish to her name, while the much younger Fatou (who is played by a social media star with […]

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‘Joyland’ wins the Queer Palm at the Cannes Film Festival

‘Joyland’ wins the Queer Palm at the Cannes Film Festival

In Joyland, a new film from Pakistani director Saim Sadiq, the protagonist is a young man who is under pressure from his family to produce a son with his wife. Instead he joins an erotic dance company and a falls for the troupe’s transgender director. The taboo-breaking film is the first film from Pakistan to be […]

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Virtual Indigenous Film Festival returns for Reconciliation Week

Virtual Indigenous Film Festival returns for Reconciliation Week

The Virtual Indigenous Film Festival (VIFF) is now screening, marking Reconciliation Week across the country. The festival’s aim is to showcase First Nations stories and voices, and spark conversations about how we can all contribute to Reconciliation in Australia. The fourth annual festival features five award-winning films including Firebite, My Name Is Gulpilil, Off Country and Wash […]

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Review | ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ is pure fantasy nostaglia

Review | ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ is pure fantasy nostaglia

Top Gun: Maverick | Dir: Joseph Kosinski | ★ ★ ★ ★ ½  Thirty-six years after Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell (Tom Cruise) thrilled audiences, the Navy aviator is back breaking all the rules and ignoring orders. Still feeling the need for speed, test pilot Maverick takes the audience into the danger zone (with the help of Kenny Loggins’ […]

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Queer & local stories shine at Revelation Film Festival 2022

Queer & local stories shine at Revelation Film Festival 2022

The 25th annual Revelation Perth International Film Festival returns to Luna Cinemas Leederville from 7 – 17 July. As always, the curated program celebrates independent filmmakers and boundary pushing storytellers from around the globe and around the corner with films direct from Rotterdam, Berlin, SXSW, Venice and Locarno Film Festivals. The team say they are […]

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Review | Chaos reigns in ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’

Review | Chaos reigns in ‘Everything Everywhere All At Once’

Everything Everywhere All At Once | Dir: Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert | ★ ★ ★ ★  The premise of this film is quite simple. Evelyn is a middle-aged Chinese American woman (Michelle Yeoh) who has an extremely chaotic life. Living next to the laundromat she runs with her husband Waymond who wants a divorce (Ke Huy […]

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