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Relic (2020)- BFI London Film Festival 2020

Posted by Gui on October 25, 2020

Review 89min Genre:       Drama, Horror, Thriller Director:     Natalie Erika James Cast:         Robyn Nevin, Emily Mortimer, Bella Heathcote…and more Writers:     Natalie Erika James and Christian White -Synopsis- An Aussie grandmother’s inexplicable disappearance becomes even more bizarre when she returns a changed figure, plunging her daughter and granddaughter into despair when they lose touch with a matriarch […]

Babyteeth (2020)

Posted by Gui on August 21, 2020

Review 118min Genre:        Comedy, Drama, Romance Director:      Shannon Murphy Cast:          Eliza Scanlen, Toby Wallace, Ben Mendelsohn…and more Writers:      Rita Kalnejais -Synopsis- The quiet but complex lives of a suburban Australian couple are thrown into turmoil when their cancer-stricken teenage daughter develops a relationship with a local petty criminal and addict, as cracks in the […]

Judy & Punch (2019)- BFI London Film Festival 2019

Posted by Gui on November 20, 2019

Review 105min Genre:       Crime, Drama Director:    Mirrah Foulkes Cast:         Mia Wasikowska, Damon Herriman, Benedict Hardie…more Writers:     Mirrah Foulkes -Synopsis- In puritanical 17th century England, an irresponsible father and manipulative self-centred puppeteer takes out his shortcomings and alcoholism on his wife and baby, only to face a reckoning when she returns with new purpose as an […]

Hounds of Love (2017)

Posted by Gui on July 26, 2017

Review 108min Genre:     Crime, Drama, Horror Director:  Ben Young Cast:       Emma Booth, Ashleigh Cummings, Stephen Curry…and more Writer:    Ben Young -Synopsis- After being abducted on the quiet streets of Australian suburbia by a perverted couple, a young girl is subjected to horrendous exploitation and sexual abuse, but begins to exploit a relationship rift between her […]

Lion (2016)- BFI London Film Festival 2016

Posted by Gui on October 18, 2016

129min Genre:      Fact-based, Drama Director:   Garth Davis Cast:        Dev Patel, Sunny Pawar, Nicole Kidman…and more Writers:    Saroo Brierley, Larry Buttrose, Luke Davies -Synopsis- Biographical drama based on the true story of Saroo Brierley; a poor 5-year-old Indian boy who was separated from his family and became one of India’s many street children a thousand miles […]

Down Under (2016)- BFI London Film Festival 2016

Posted by Gui on October 6, 2016

90min Genre:       Comedy, Drama Director:    Abe Forsythe Cast:         Lincoln Younes, Rahel Romahn, Alexander England…more Writer:      Abe Forsythe -Synopsis- In the aftermath of the 2005 race riots in the “Cronulla” suburb of Sydney; fuelled by fear and hatred, a misfit group of vengeful Lebanese-Australians are on a collision course with a motley crew of white working-class […]

The Daughter (2016)

Posted by Gui on May 27, 2016

Review 95min Genre:       Drama Director:    Simon Stone Cast:         Geoffrey Rush, Odessa Young, Miranda Otto…and more Writers:     Henrik Ibsen and Simon Stone -Synopsis- The tranquil lives of an Australian small town group of people are thrown into turmoil when someone’s long anticipated return home dredges up dark family secrets, and a truth which tears unsuspecting families […]

The Babadook (2014) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on November 2, 2015

Review 93min Genre:      Horror, Drama Director:   Jennifer Kent Cast:        Essie Davis, Noah Wiseman, Hayley McElhinney…and more Writer:     Jennifer Kent -Synopsis- A widower, struggling with the tragic death of her husband and her young troubled son’s obsession with an imaginary monster that stalks them, soon finds that their demons are all too real in this […]

Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on September 21, 2015

Review 106min Genre:    Documentary Director: Mark Hartley Cast:      Elliott Gould, Franco Zeffirelli, Dolph Lundgren…and more Writers:  Mark Hartley Mark Hartley documentary about the meteoric rise & fall of B-movie Indie film studio Cannon Films whose extraordinary success changed the movie industry for better or worse, and whose fate was inextricably linked to that of its […]

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on May 14, 2015

Review 120min Genre:    Action, Adventure Director: George Miller Cast:      Tom Hardy, Charlize Theron, Nicholas Hoult…and more Writers:  George Miller, Brendan McCarthy and Nick Lathouris A “re-launch”/sequel picking up where the classic 80’s post-apocalyptic franchise left off, in a desolate desert landscape the mysterious drifter Max is forced to join forces with a tough and determined […]

The Water Diviner (2014) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on April 2, 2015

Review 111min Genre:      Drama, War Director:   Russell Crowe Cast:        Russell Crowe, Olga Kurylenko, Jai Courtney …and more Writer:     Andrew Knight, Andrew Anastasios A World War I period drama set in 1919 after the brutal events of the Gallipoli Campaign, Russell Crowe makes his directorial debut and stars as an Australian farmer who fulfils a promise […]

The Rover (2014) English Language

Posted by Gui on August 22, 2014

103 min Genre:    Drama, Thriller Director: David Michôd Cast:      Guy Pearce, Robert Pattinson, Scoot McNairy…and more Writers:  Joel Edgerton & David Michôd Set in the harsh Australian Outback 10 years after an unspecified future economic apocalypse, Guy Pearce stars a gritty loner on a mission to recover his car stolen by criminals on the run, on the […]

Chopper (2000) (English Language)

Posted by Gui on April 1, 2014

94min Genre:    Crime, Comedy, Fact-Based Director: Andrew Dominik Cast:      Eric Bana, Simon Lyndon, Vince Colosimo …and more Writers:  Mark Brandon Read, Andrew Dominik Based on the autobiographies of legendary larger-than-life Australian criminal and now bestselling author Mark “Chopper” Read, Chopper paints a brutal but darkly comic picture of the life of a man as comfortable […]