Set during Sydney’s Jazz Age, The Tender Hook infuses the look and doomed love-triangle storyline of a classical Hollywood film noir with a distinctively Australian
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Film review – Waltz with Bashir (2008)
Waltz with Bashir begins with the arresting image of a pack of savage dogs hurtling through the street, terrifying onlookers. It is an exhilarating and
Film review – Funny Games U.S. (2007)
German director Michael Haneke (Caché, The Piano Teacher) has remade his 1997 Austrian film Funny Games as an almost shot-for-shot English language version. Funny Games
Film review – Persepolis (2007)
Iranian born Marjane Satrapi was in many ways a typical adolescent girl – opinionated, defiant and rebellious yet a bit of a romantic and very
Film review – Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? (2008)
Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock is a more humourous yet less hard-hitting equivalent to Michael Moore. Nevertheless Super Size Me, Spurlock’s attack on the fast food
Film review – And When Did You Last See Your Father? (2007)
The English are reputedly pretty bad at expressing their feelings, which is why this gentle yet heartfelt English drama, based on the memoirs of poet
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