Tag: film review
Max Richter’s Sleep, a filmed antidote to modern life with music to dream by
Photo by MIKE TERRY/Madman
Review: Max Richter’s Sleep, directed by Natalie Johns.
Music does things. For German-born, English-raised composer Max Richter, music is a “vehicle for travelling through the...
How historically accurate is the film High Ground? The violence it depicts is uncomfortably close to the truth
Jacob Junior Nayinggul (left) and Simon Baker in High Ground (2020). Maxo, Bunya Productions, Savage Films
The Australian film High Ground, set mostly at a mission...
Film review: Wild Things packs passionate climate activism into an overly polite documentary
Picture: Potential Films
The content of some films is so close to the heart that it’s difficult to critically evaluate them. If you’re an atheist, The...
Ammonite: the remarkable real science of Mary Anning and her fossils
Transmission Films
This story contains spoilers for Ammonite
Palaeontologist Mary Anning is known for discovering a multitude of Jurassic fossils from Lyme Regis on England’s Dorset...
Girls Can’t Surf shows how determined women battled sexism in their sport
Picture: Don King
Review: Girls Can’t Surf, directed by Christopher Nelius
The documentary Girls Can’t Surf spans the 1980s and early 1990s as women surfers battled in and...
Borat’s wet firecracker of an October surprise won’t hurt Trump but succeeds as feminist satire
Amazon Studios, Four by Two Films
It’s January 20th, 2021. Inauguration day. A triumphant Joe Biden salutes the National Mall crowd (way bigger than...