What came first human values or religion? It's this chicken and the egg question that Penny Lane's documentary Hail Satan? aims to unpack, focusing on the lack of separation of church and state that has become incredibly evident within American politics. The film follows a campaign from The Satanic Temple to have a statue of …
Have you ever laughed so hard that your insides hurt? Well if not I would recommend going to see Booksmart directed by Olivia Wilde. This coming-of-age comedy has just the right amount of weird and relatable, it connects to a place of real life whilst also taking you off on a cinematic adventure with plenty …
We often forget that some of the greatest stories in cinema come from real life. The things we do as humans, the lives we lead, the experiences we have, and memories we collect are the basis for the things we turn into film, and by extension art. In When Tomatoes Met Wagner director Marianna Economou …
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Corruption, comedy, and caviar. Nadja, a Russian living in Vienna, is a translator for boorish billionaire oligarch, Igor. When Igor impulsively resolves to build an ostentatious villa on the Danube Canal, he sets out to bribe local officials into redeveloping the area. Meanwhile Nadja, her girlfriend, and her hipster nanny plot to dob them in …
Iceland is a stunning country with awe inspiring landscapes but they still are affected by a lot of the worlds struggles. In today's media landscape the concept of immigration fear is prevalent, particularly in Australia. In Iceland this issue has only recently bubbled to the surface and as such Ásthildur Kjartansdóttir's feature film debut, The …
When you think of the zombie apocalypse genre images of rotting corpses lumbering their way through empty streets in a mindless search for brains are probably what you'd picture first along with titles like 28 Days Later, The Walking Dead, or World War Z. Well Endzeit, the second feature from filmmaker Carolina Hellsgard, takes this …
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I'm going to be hard pressed to keep finding Parisian pun titles for my articles on this, but as long as Cannes film festival keeps seesawing on the scale of gender equality I will have to be cringe worthy. But seriously, what is going on with Cannes this year? Last years festival caused a stir …
Well it's time to put your designer gowns away for another year as we say so long to award season and all its celebrities, creativity and controversy. But I mean what we talk about if hosts didn't get in trouble for saying the wrong things, people never fell over or went overtime on their speeches, …
So the Venice Film Festival has coped a lot flack recently about the serious lack of female representation amongst the directors of the films chosen, from myself included... With the excuse being that the films were all selected on merit and it was a complete coincidence that 87% of the films were made by men. …
I honestly didn't consciously chose to see two lesbian films in my Sydney Film Festival viewings, but I'm glad that it worked out that way. Both Rafiki directed by Wanuri Kahiu and The Miseducation of Cameron Post directed by Desiree Akhavan were new stories that I had not experienced before. I will preface this post by stating, the probably …
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