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The Last Impresario
He’s the man at the center of the all the parties you wish you were invited to. He’s the one that everyone who is anyone wants to speak to. A producer of over 100 stage shows and 27 films, he may be...
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Tim’s Vermeer
17th century Dutch Master Johannes Vermeer painted some truly extraordinary works. At a time when photography was yet to be invented, he managed to created photo-real paintings. How was it that he was...
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The Lunchbox
India’s lunch delivery system successfully transports lunches from home kitchens to the offices of thousands of workers (predominately in Mumbai) daily. Renowned for its punctuality and accuracy, the...
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Dawn of the Planet of the Apes
When chimp handler Robert Franklin was accidentally exposed to ALZ-113, an Alzheimer’s drug being tested on apes, he set off the beginning of the end of life on Earth as we know it. Human numbers...
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Enemy
“Chaos is order yet undeciphered” is the quote which opens Enemy. Taken from The Double by Jose Saramago, from which Enemy is adapted from, it serves as both something to ponder and a warning for the...
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Venus in Fur
Playwright Thomas Novacheck was all but ready to give up on finding a leading lady for his play, and then the enigmatic Vanda walked in. Could the seemingly scatterbrained actress who shares a name...
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Snowpiercer
When the fix for global warning out to be the nail in the coffin for Earth’s fragile ecosystem, the world returns to the Ice Age. In the frozen wasteland there is one beacon of hope, a super train...
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Deliver Us from Evil
I almost enjoyed this film. It has within it the possibilities of an overflowing, ecstatic nightmare of the incredulous and deranged, something from which horrors truly can spring, or at the very...
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Guardians of the Galaxy
I have no intention of spoiling any details, jokes or events of this film so the following review will stick to allusions and a generalised examination. My grandfather had the greatest impact on my...
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These Final Hours
This is the end. The Earth has been hit by an asteroid and a wall of fire is travelling around the planet, obliterating all life. In Perth, Australia, 12 hours remain. How would you spend them? These...
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Begin Again
When a washed up music executive and a lonely singer-songwriter have a chance encounter at a New York bar, the creation of music is the inevitable outcome. Begin Again is reviewed after the jump. Dan...
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20,000 Days on Earth
In this rather unusual documentary, we follow a day, the 20,000th day in the life of UK-based, Australian musician Nick Cave. This day is a construct, one which is representative of Cave’s daily life....
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The Inbetweeners 2
The raunchy teenage/young adult male sex comedy is one of those ubiquitous sub-genres that won’t be going away anytime soon. From Animal House to American Pie, these movies are usually good for a...
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Night Moves
Opening in a remote Oregon national park, we meet Josh (Jesse Eisenberger) and Dena (Dakota Fanning) as they are walking around a damn. We soon discover the reason for their visit is recon for an...
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Gringo Trails [EFFM]
Opening with a quote from Chief Seattle of the Suquamish tribe, “Take only memories, leave nothing but footprints”, Gringo Trails concerns itself with the problem of uncontrolled tourism, and the...
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Wrenched [EFFM]
I had heard of Edward Abbey’s infamous novel, ‘The Monkey Wrench Gang’ (1975), but I was unfamiliar with the man himself. Watching Wrenched, and listening to Abbey speak, I felt that there was no...
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The Forgotten: Mean Creek
In this edition of The Forgotten, Alex Withrow (And So It Begins…) explains why Mean Creek (Jacob Aaron Estes, 2004) is a fantastic indie and an interesting example of the weird ways and fates of...
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The Forgotten: Possession
In this edition of The Forgotten, Andrew Buckle (The Film Emporium, Graffiti with Punctuation) explains why Possession (Andrzej Zulawski, 1981) is one of his top 20 horror films of all time. Thanks...
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The Forgotten: Super
In this edition of The Forgotten, Steve Parkes (Cinema Cope) explains why Super (James Gunn, 2010), an underrated super hero movie of sorts (which was dwarfed by bigger films released around the same...
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Lucky Bastard
Before we begin, please take a minute to read Lukas Kendall’s article, What Happens When You Make An NC-17 Film. Film is a powerfully subversive format. It climbs into your soft tissues, stirring...
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