Based on a series of short stories about the meaning of life by Israeli writer Etgar Keret and featuring silicon puppets brought to life with
Tag: Australian cinema
Film review – Mao’s Last Dancer (2009)
Li Cunxin was born into a very poor peasant family who lived in a rural Chinese province during Chairman Mao’s Cultural Revolution. In 1972 a
Film review – Van Diemen’s Land (2009)
Alexander Pearce was an Irish convict who escaped from a penal settlement in Tasmania’s Macquarie Harbour in 1822. Van Diemen’s Land is the latest film
Film review – Stone Bros. (2009)
You can’t help but want to like Stone Bros. Not only is it another contemporary Indigenous Australian film, in a strong year for Australian cinema
Film review – Further We Search (2009)
Age (Xavier Samuel from September and Newcastle) has just hitchhiked into Melbourne with one suitcase, a book full of poems and the phone number of
Film review – The Horseman (2008)
Christian is a middle-aged exterminator whose daughter has died from a heroin overdose after appearing in a seedy porn film. Racked with grief and rage