Jen and the Film Critic: Barbenheimer Special!
Jen and her film critic have gathered to discuss the film event of the year: the simultaneous release of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s...
Month: July 2023
Episode 19. Mission Impossible 7, Indiana Jones 5, Spider-verse 2, The Flash and More
What a chaotic month! Sure things flopped and flop things flipped! Into the box office that is. What? It’s been a month of surprises, so...
SLF 2023: ‘Invisible Beauty’ Review: Perfectionist, Activist, Mother, Model, Icon
Bethann Hardison co-directs her own story in this documentary about the iconic fashion designer. The film opens with her writing her untitled memoirs whilst in...
SLF 2023: ‘Mutt’ Review: Brave Post-Transition Drama
Emerging from a bustling NYC bar, Feña (Lío Mehie) wanders the street as she speaks to his estranged father on the phone. A rift has...
SLF 2023: ‘You Hurt My Feelings’ Review: Gentle Comedy of Disaffection
Nicole Holofcener risks opening with its two funniest characters. A couple (David Cross and Amber Tamblyn) are playing out old arguments in a doctor’s office,...
LSF 2023: ‘Talk to Me’ Review: Unsettling Aussie Horror
There is a dangerous new fad circulating teen parties in Adelaide. A strange hand allows people to see and speak to the Dead and if...
LSF 2023: ‘Past Lives’ Review: Beautiful Romantic Drama About Love and Destiny
Nora left Korea 20 years ago. She left behind a childhood romance with a boy named Hae Sung; a romance rekindled when he contacts her...
LSF 2023: ‘Passages’ Review: All’s Fair in this Romantic Drama
Sex, Lies and drama abound as German film director Tomas (Franz Rogowski) meets the beautiful Agathe (Adele Exarchopoulos) and immediately becomes smitten. He does not...
LSF 2023: ‘Fairyland’ Review: Authentic and Affecting but Potentially Stigmatising
1970s and 80s San Francisco is vividly invoked in a story of a young girl, Alysia Abbott (Emilia Jones) being raised by a gay father, ...