With teeth: Why girls love vampires
Suspended between death and life, the vampire occupies a liminal space wherein typical boundaries can be blurred.
Love unscripted: The culture industry’s romantic reel dance
Business is business, what else are you supposed to do?
Building Morticia
Unlike Vampira and Elvira, Morticia is a wife and mother, but it goes without saying that she represents much more than that. She wants it all, and refreshingly, she never asks why she shouldn’t have it.
SFF 2023 REVIEW: Joonam (جونم)
Urich’s soulful connection with the documentary as well as the subject matter is one that is felt palpably.
SFF 2023 REVIEW: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
I felt cheated by an experience that capitalised on Murakami’s name and a trailer that hinted at his many stories, but had very little to do with the collection itself.
SFF 2023 REVIEW: Subtraction (تفریق)
Haghighi, all-round artist of acting, writing, and directing origins, leads Subtraction with direction reminiscent of Iranian greats.
SFF 2023 REVIEW: Sunflower
Set in the outer suburbs of Melbourne, this film acts as an enticing representation and characterisation of coming out in a society where homophobia has become socialised.
SFF 2023 REVIEW: Blue Jean
Oakley’s directing is subtle and effective, with clever use of sound and lighting to contrast the two major settings at Jean’s school and the nightclub, which are the symbolic fronts of the heteronormative and queer environments that she arbitrates between.
SFF 2023 REVIEW: Scrapper
I knew two things about the film going in: a) Harris Dickinson was in it and b) it was going to make me cry. Those two things turned out to be true.
SFF 2023 REVIEW: Kim's Video — “A lot of things used to be here, and now they are not”
Redmon and Sabin masterfully balance gravity and levity in what might be the funniest documentary I have ever seen.
SFF 2023 REVIEW: L’immensità
Set in circumstances of perpetual domestic conflict: Rape, betrayal, and family violence continually oscillate between each other, creating a profound sense of unease.
SFF 2023 REVIEW: No Bears – the camera as truth-teller
In No Bears, we are just as much aware that we are watching a film as we are of the action taking place. With knowledge of Panahi’s context, every shot feels dangerous, and you're constantly left wondering how he made it.
At the nucleus of beauty
A symbol of undying beauty, the sari is not a temporal phenomenon.
No one, not a single soul, is still mad about Tropic Thunder
After all, if there’s one thing that the left loves to do, it’s making sure that no one is allowed to enjoy a film from 15 years ago.
The Devils in the details: the outrageous story behind Space Jam: A New Legacy’s most bizarre cameo
51 years after its release, The Devils remains Warner Bros.’ dirty little secret, so how did one of its characters end up in a Looney Toons movie?