Review: Brazen Hussies (2020)
If we don’t keep stories of struggle alive, they tend to be robbed of their power. We look at the past through the lens of the present and so when we reflect on the (ongoing, let’s be clear) battle for equalit...
Dentistry, Deadlines, and the Ol’ Post-Festival Malaise
Hey folks, just giving you a quick heads up as to the current state of play. I got back from the excellent Adelaide Film Festival on Monday morning (8am flight, man - fuck that) quite hung over (to be expe...
Review: Firestarter – The Story of Bangarra (2020)
Art and politics are irrevocably melded in Firestarter – The Story of Bangarra. For the most part, the film is celebratory, tracing the Bangarra Dance Theatre’s trajectory from its founding back in 1989 as an ...
Review: White Riot (2019)
London, 1976: The Queen’s Silver Jubilee is nigh, but the country is in the grips of a massive economic depression. The social fallout bifurcates: on the one hand, the alienated urban angst of the punk scene; ...
Review: High Ground (2020)
The Norther Territory, 1931: 12 years after participating in a brutal massacre that all but wiped out a Yolngu family group, ex-soldier Travis (Simon Baker) is given an ultimatum by his former commanding offic...
Review: 2067 (2020)
In the eponymous year 2067 ecological catastrophe has wiped out all plant life and the remnants of humanity eke out a living in vast underground cities, sucking on bottled artificial air. This situation is obv...