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Presenting a selection of the best cinema from the top of the world, the Scandinavian Film Festival returns this July. The Opening Night selection is an epic co-production between Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Iceland, Czech Republic and Poland titled Margrete – Queen of the North (Margrete den første). A lavish historical drama set in 1402 from […]
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9 Jun 2022 /
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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 […]
Tags: A Single Man, carol, cinema, Film, inclusion, monash business school, Movies, the kids are all right
26 Mar 2022 |
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Southeast Asia’s only LGBTIQ+ streaming service Gagaoolala is offering selected free content to expand your at-home viewing catalogue. Launched by Taiwan’s Portico Media in 2017, the organisation behind the Taiwan International Queer Film Festival, Gagaoolala is bringing Asian and international LGBTIQ+ stories into homes around the world. Loaded with feature films, documentaries, shorts and TV, […]
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3 Apr 2020 |
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McQueen (★★★★★) Writer/director Peter Ettedgui doesn’t shy away from the dark side in his powerful documentary of fashion’s bad boy. With a childhood effected by abuse, Lee Alexander McQueen was famous for spectacular and controversial fashion shows such as ‘Highland Rape’ and ‘McQueen’s Theatre of Cruelty’. Always pushing boundaries, McQueen wanted people to feel emotion, […]
Tags: book club, cinema, Film Reviews, Lezly Herbert, mcqueen, Movies, you were never really here
3 Sep 2018 |
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Darling | Cinema Paradiso | July 19 | ★ ★ ★ ★ ½ Darling, directed by Danish filmmaker Birgitte Staermose, is set at the fascinating Royal Danish Ballet school and features the dancers as extras. Darling (Danica Curcic) returns to her training ground in Copenhagen from her success in New York with choreographer husband Frans (Gustaf Skarsgard) […]
Tags: Black Swan, cinema, Cinema Paradiso, darling, Film, Lezly Herbert, Movies, Scandinavian Film Festival
17 Jul 2018 |
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Upgrade (★★★★) is directed by Leigh Whannell, the Australian screenwriter, director, producer, actor responsible for the Saw franchise of horror films with his friend James Wan. The near future science fiction thriller opens a thrilling car chase and predictable violence when mechanic Grey Trace (Logan Marshall Green) and his wife have their automatic car hijacked. […]
Tags: cinema, Film, Ian McKellen, ideal home, Lezly Herbert, mckellen: playing the part, Movies, queerama, Rev, Revelation Film Festival, upgrade
19 Jun 2018 |
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Ben Elton reached international fame for writing for the absurd television comedies The Young Ones and Blackadder. This was before he came to Australia and married Fremantle musician Sophie Gare. Living in Fremantle for much of the time, he often attended the folk music festival at Fairbridge near Pinjarra with his extended family of musicians. […]
Tags: Ben Elton, bisexuality, Cate Blanchett, Chris Hemsworth, cinema, Film, Lezly Herbert, Magda Szubanski, Michael Caton, Movies, ragnarok, thor, three summers
2 Nov 2017 |
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In Steven Soderbergh’s hilarious heist film Logan Lucky (★★★★), it is fun to see actors cast in extremely different roles to what we are used to seeing them. Set at a massive Nascar speedway in West Virginia, a couple of not-so-bright desperados come up with an elaborate hare-brained plan to rob the speedway during the […]
Tags: Adam Driver, american made, Channing Tatum, cinema, daniel craig, Film, girls trip, jada pinkett smith, Lezly Herbert, logan lucky, Movies, Queen Latifah, steven soderbergh, Tom Cruise
13 Sep 2017 |
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The ancient walking, talking tree (voiced by Liam Neeson) in A Monster Calls (★★★★★) might be a monster to some children, but Conor (Lewis MacDougall) is twelve and has to deal with some grown-up things in his life. Apart from having bullying classmates, his mother (Felicity Jones) is very ill. His father (Toby Kebbell) has […]
Tags: a monster calls, an inconvenient sequel, cinema, Film, Film Reviews, killing ground, Lezly Herbert, Movies, reviews
7 Aug 2017 |
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Sammi Blood, directed by Amanda Kernell, may be located in Sweden but it is a tale of colonisation and alienation that is very close to home. Sweden’s indigenous population, the Samis (or Lapps), were nomadic reindeer herders and weren’t given any rights until the 1990s. Their children were sent to residential schools where they were […]
Tags: cinema, Film, heartstone, Lezly Herbert, Movies, sammi blood, Scandinavian Film Festival, Tom of FInland
19 Jul 2017 |
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