
Saltburn film review: Dark comedy is a carnival of lost souls
Writer and director Emerald Fennell, who won an Oscar in 2020 for her feminist revenge thriller Promising Young Woman, is also an...

Light on accuracy, Ridley Scott is focused on the war and not the man in Napoleon
We may be none the wiser about Napoleon the man, but Ridley Scott’s mastery in mounting epic battlefield extravaganzas is unsurpassed. The...

The Lesson: Richard E Grant shines in this unexpected literary whodunnit
Rather like a light but readable novel, The Lesson is a film to sit back and gaze at without too much enquiry....

Film review: The Musical Mind: A portrait in process
Celebrated Adelaide director Scott Hicks is on familiar ground in a documentary that references his Oscar-nominated film Shine to introduce pianist David...

The Royal Hotel is an outback thriller with a difference
The Royal Hotel, an outback Australian story looking at the thin line between women laughing off unwanted sexual approaches and picking up...

Film review: Theater Camp – the goofy send up of theatre-kid rituals
Presented in mockumentary style, Theater Camp’s satirical lineage looks back to the great Christopher Guest’s Best in Show and A Mighty Wind,...

Film review: Ego – The Michael Gudinski Story
Ego could be a reference to a Skyhooks song as much as a comment on how much space Michael Gudinski took up...

Pride, peacocking and flat notes in Chevalier tale of French Revolution
You may not have heard of the 18th-century French composer, conductor and violinist Joseph Bologne, a knight of the French court, which...

Oppenheimer: A cinematic milestone despite its few flaws
Director Christopher Nolan calls Oppenheimer the most important man who ever lived, and he wants us to understand the tortured genius who...

Barbie film review: Is there enough wit and polish to justify all the hype?
How can you be a feminist and direct a Barbie movie? That was the real intrigue behind this pink tentpole extravaganza with...