Seats that dip and swerve with the onscreen action along with water jets, rushes of air and smells to make you feel as if you’re really there. A platinum-class space with food and drink delivered to the world’s comfiest chair. Recliners replacing regular seats. And the second biggest movie screen on the globe… Cinema […]
Photo Credits – HKIFF Day 1 – Opening Ceremony – 45th HKIFF The 45th Hong Kong International Film Festival kicked off in a cosy yet relatively low key fashion at the Hong Kong Cultural Centre on April 1, 2021. With the initial grand opening film – “When the Wind Rises” being pulled out within days […]
The King MA15+, 140 minutes Review by © Jane Freebury 4 Stars Now that the streaming platforms are windows on the world in our shuttered lives, movies that were at the cinema a few months ago are re-appearing on our TVs. Giving The King a second chance if you missed it last October is […]
Bitten by the Parasite bug, and want to find out more about Korean cinema? There is probably no more perfectly timed book than this weighty volume, Rediscovering Korean Cinema. Stretching from the beginnings of Korean cinema when the peninsula was still under Japanese occupation to the recent megahits of historical drama Ode to My Father […]
Significantly hipper, more thoughtful and more nuanced than your typical RomCom, while being significantly tamer, more formulaic and more commercially-minded than her previous film 52 Tuesdays, Adelaide-born director Sophie Hyde’s Animals, an adaptation of Emma Jane Unsworth’s novel (Unsworth also wrote the screenplay), is a variant on a very well-worn trope: what happens to a friendship centred on partying […]
It’s pleasing to report that based on this strong batch of features, Nordic cinema seems to be in very good shape, featuring diverse stories across a whole spectrum of genres told, for the most part, with a great deal of craft, vitality and originality.
Rich, strange, smart and darkly off-centre – like its subject – Acute Misfortune is based on Erik Jensen’s book about the two or so years he spent researching Blue Mountains painter Adam Cullen for a proposed biography (the proposal coming from Cullen himself). Mostly but not entirely confined to Cullen’s spare, modest mountain house, and to the […]
Day 1 – 18 March 2019 – Opening Ceremony The 43rd edition of the Hong Kong International Film Festival kicks off with much fanfare as Hong Kong superstar and film festival ambassador Aaron Kwok and youth ambassadors Jennifer Yu and Neo Yau leads the carpet with the director Renny Harlin and cast […]
Surfing makes for elegant and beautiful spectator sport, as those of us who stick to land know only too well. Ever since I lived on the coast south of Sydney I have thought that surfing was out of this world but that it needed patient dedication and a kind of insanity to pursue. Day […]