Penelope Debelle
Blaze uses powerful imagery to relate this harrowing tale of a young girl’s journey
Del Kathryn Barton is an Australian artist who regularly enters and twice won the Archibald Prize, once for a portrait of Hugo...
Emma Thompson gives a captivating performance in this off-kilter rom-com
This niche, off-kilter rom-com directed by Adelaide filmmaker Sophie Hyde celebrates the liberation of Nancy, a middle-aged widow whose history of sex...
Chilling new film The Conference offers a provocative reminder of evil
Like an opening scene of Succession, black cars with drivers deliver powerful people to a meeting. Something significant is about to take...
Bullet Train: Brad Pitt’s charm just about saves this fast-paced, confusing action movie
The Japanese bullet train is fast and so is this movie – too fast at times to keep track of. But when...
The Forgiven: A shimmering and exotic-looking film with bitterness at its heart
Morocco’s draw as a mecca for outsiders wanting to hide their secrets in the desert sands gets a shake-up in The Forgiven,...
Where the Crawdads Sing: Between best-selling book and silver screen something vital was lost
Here is some of what we learn: A swamp is not a marsh, a marsh being a deeper and darker ecosystem with...
Australian actor Odessa Young shines in British post-WWI drama Mothering Sunday
Watching Odessa Young wander naked on screen through the stately home of her lover, idly touching things she could never afford to...
Downton Abbey – A New Era: British country-manor snobbery takes jaunt to south of France
Downton Abbey: A New Era starts with the aftermath of a wedding, of the luckiest chauffeur in Yorkshire, Tom Branson, who lost...
Northman: This big-budget Viking epic offers grit and wild drama in a classic storyline
Expect thundering brutality, subjugation, a mythical sword, a Valkyrie and the cry of the corpse-hound sounding out across the Icelandic tundra under...
Peaceful, sad yet unsentimental, is a highlight of the 2022 French Film Festival
The French title, De Son Vivant, became Peaceful for English audiences but the closer translation, In His Lifetime, is more reflective of what this gentle movie...