A courtroom drama exposing the little known story of the trial of Mary Surratt after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, The Conspirator is both gripping and a rather formal flag-waving exercise – men with whiskers and high collars proselytising on the processes of the legal system in times of war. Yes, it’s 1865 on […]
One of the most powerful and moving films from last year’s Cannes Film Festival (where it won the Grand Prix - or second prize), Of Gods & Men has taken its time to get to the big screen outside its native France, but it’s absolutely not to be missed. Unhurried and with the most exceptional […]
Every two years, the staff of Sydney’s Methodist Ladies College, under the leadership of Music Department head Karen Carey, stage a concert at the Sydney Opera House. Every one of the school’s 1200 girls is expected to perform. Mrs Carey is something of a character, demanding a lot from her students as she pulls together […]
The real-life story behind this film will be no surprise to those who saw the mini-series The Leaving of Liverpool (or who actually read the front of this newspaper). While Kevin Rudd was making his historic apology to Australia’s Indigenous stolen generation, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was preparing a similar apology to the hundred-thousand-plus […]
Not quite punchy enough for children and far too glowingly located on the twee side of melodrama for the grown ups, this family film from Downton Abbey producer Julian Fellowes mixes Regency ghosts and a rambling, secret-filled mansion with disappointingly lackluster results.
What a complex beast this beauty is. Australian novelist Julia Leigh has drawn on Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Memories of My Melancholy Whores to make her feature film debut with this self-penned tale that has little in common with the Grimm fairy tale, much more in common with films like Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut or […]
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