
Grace Tame wows Adelaide Writers Week with a memoir of abuse, courage … and Scott Morrison
The day young Grace Tame confronted her abuser in his office at school was the day she lost all fear of what...

Robert Pattinson embodies Gotham’s caped crusader in this stylistic Batman noir
When did Robert Pattinson get to be so tall? The sensible answer would be some years ago but his Batman towers over...

C’mon C’mon: A transformative story about modern life and the openness of children
There is nothing ground-breaking about C’mon C’mon’s storyline: An uncle is thrust unexpectedly into the role of parent and amid the ensuing chaos, there...

Film review: Drive My Car is about letting go of secrets and finding forgiveness
This dreamy and exceptional film opens with the recurring obsessions of author Haruki Murakami, on whose short story it is based: namely,...

Death on the Nile is a delightfully sumptuous and fanciful murder mystery
It takes a lot to interest a contemporary film audience in something as inherently old fashioned as an Agatha Christie murder mystery....

Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast captures the universality and warmth of a family’s shared love
Belfast was a lockdown project written by Branagh during a quiet time but also driven by the memories that surfaced of a...

Almodovar’s engaging film Parallel Mothers once again puts women at its heart
Spain’s Pedro Almodóvar has been directing for more than 30 years (his breakthrough, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, came...

Nightmare Alley goes full film noir with this star-studded thriller
Roll up, roll up to the carnival freak show: See the world’s tiniest man, the electric woman, the mind reader who can...

Adelaide director Sophie Hyde’s new comedy-drama to premiere at virtual Sundance
Sophie Hyde should have touched down by now in snowy Utah, where Good Luck to You, Leo Grande is in the line-up...

The Lost Daughter: Layers of intrigue in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s directorial debut
The opening is hazy and easily forgotten as this unusual film drifts languidly along with not much happening, or so it seems....
