Spring Breakers is not necessarily a film that you’d expect to come from Harmony Korine. The cast includes Disney’s Selena Gomez and High School Musical‘s Vanessa Hudgens, along with his wife Rachel Korine and model-turned-actress Ashley Benson as four young college students,...
Sneak Peek: Shame
posted by Courtney Dawson
From director Steve McQueen (Hunger) comes the hard-hitting drama Shame, starring Michael Fassbender as Brandon - a seemingly lonely but successful, sex-addict in New York. When his troubled sister Sissy (Carey Mulligan) comes to stay in his apartment, his life becomes somewhat...
Advance Australian F...
posted by Courtney Dawson
While Australia has produced an array of acclaimed features over the years (most recently Red Dog and Australia) interest in Australian Cinema has been experiencing a steady decline. It’s been over 20 years since Baz Luhrman’s Strictly Ballroom (1992) reached number one at...
Film Review: Martha ...
posted by Courtney Dawson
Sean Durkin won the Dramatic Directing Award at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival for Martha Marcy May Marlene - an intense psychological drama about a young girl named Martha (Elizabeth Olsen) who has just escaped from a repressive and dangerous cult helmed by the manipulative (and creepy)...
Film Review: Young A...
posted by Courtney Dawson
Young Adult is a quirky dark comedy about a divorced thirty-something year old fiction writer named Mavis (Charlize Theron). It’s made immediately clear that Mavis suffers from a form of depression – she begins her morning ritual by gulping down a bottle of Diet Coke as she...