THE NEW BOY Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Warwick Thornton Stars: Cate Blanchett, Deborah Mailman, Wayne Blair, Aswan Reid. This is the third film from indigenous filmmaker Warrick Thornton following Samson & Delilah and the award-winning Sweet Country. The New Boy opened the Sydney Film Festival and has now gained a theatrical release. And although the film deals with indigenous issues it is nowhere …
OF AN AGE
Of An Age Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Goran Stolevski Stars: Elias Anton, Thom Green, Hattie Hook. The opening night film of the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2022 was Of An Age, a queer themed drama and coming of age tale that seems to draw inspiration from the likes of Richard Linklater’s Before Sunset and the classic Brief Encounter. The film is set in 1999 and centres …
THE LONELY SPIRITS VARIETY HOUR – interview with PLATON THEODORIS
PLATON THEODORIS Interview by GREG KING Interview with PLATON THEODORIS When verbose radio host Neville Umbrellaman lands in hospital, a group of unexpected performers crash his show The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour. The quirky low budget independent Australian feature The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour. The film is adapted from Nitin Vengurlekar’s theatre show The Lonely Spirits Variety Hour, and has …
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LONESOME
Lonesome Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Craig Boreham Stars: Josh Lavery, Daniel Gabriel, Anni Finisterer, Ian Roberts. An antipodean Midnight Cowboy? Sydney Cowboy perhaps? Lonesome is the sexually explicit sophomore feature from writer/director Craig Boreham, one of our finest exponents of queer cinema at the moment, and it follows his 2016 debut Teenage Kicks. The low budget film looks at the …
YOU CAN GO NOW
You Can Go Now Reviewed by GREG KING Documentary Director: Larissa Behrendt. Trailblazing indigenous artist and outspoken provocateur Richard Bell is arguably one of our most important artists whose work has been exhibited internationally. But he is also confrontational and unapologetic in his opinions about Australia’s treatment of its First Nations people, and he also bemoans the fact that traditional …
BLUEBACK
Blueback Reviewed by GREG KING Director: Robert Connolly Stars: Mia Wasikowska, Radha Mitchell, Eric Bana, Erik Thomson, Ariel Joy Donoghue, Isla Fogg, Eddie Baroo, Clarence Ryan, Pedrea Jackson. This earnest, well-meaning but slightly manipulative family friendly film about the beautiful bond between a teenaged girl and a fish is based on the best-selling 1997 novella written by Miles Franklin award …
