The Penguin Lessons
One small step for film, one giant belly-slide for penguinkind
Katherine De Vere
The Brutalist
A bit like IKEA—where the only way out is through every department, and by the end, you wish you’d just stayed home and saved the money.
Conclave
...less taut political thriller, more drooping cassock
Gladiator II
The ancient Romans were familiar with the citron and as such they’d have recognised this film for the lemon it is. Why the pressing need for a remake at all? Famed and talented director Ridley Scott really lost the plot…
Poison – 2024 British Film Festival
Poison is a film that examines the relationship between a long-separated couple and their shared grief over the loss of a child. Premiering in Australia as part of the British Film Festival, the production marks the feature debut of Désirée…
The Promised Land – Australian Premiere
The inimitable Mads Mikkelsen heads the cast of this epic drama
The Zone of Interest
Dare we ask ourselves the same question, even as we sit in the cinema with ice creams?
The Holdovers
"All you need is one good eye!"
ONE LIFE
"...if she'd removed her wig and glasses we’d all have been in on the joke!"
The Killers Of The Flower Moon
How many close-ups of Di Caprio frowning can one person take?
The Great Escaper
...looks like he's wandered in from his local Am-Dram group.
How I became an Oxfordian
...which by scintillating turns brought his authorial voice to startling, brilliant life.