By Simon Miraudo August 1, 2014 The Congress is where brutal reality meets impossible fantasy, Tex Avery meets Studio Ghibli, and director Ari Folman meets actress Robin Wright, resulting in, at the very least, a truly unique cinematic experience, and inspiring one genius headline. (See above.) Set in a near-future Hollywood that has no further […]
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Public frenemies – Lawrence and Holloman review
July 9, 2014 
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By Simon Miraudo July 9, 2014 More anti-human than Antichrist, Matthew Kowalchuck‘s beyond-black comedy Lawrence & Holloman asks us to revel in the largely-unsuccessful emotional torture of a jerk by a sociopath. And they said cinema had run out of heroes. Based on the stage play by Canadian Morris Panych – a fan of Neil […]
Continue readingGirl, incubated – Wetlands review
July 7, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo July 7, 2014 Wetlands takes a gross thing, teenagerdom, and makes it grosser, which is like setting out to make an especially revolting movie about your last bout of conjunctivitis: any memory of the experience is probably potent enough. Still, credit to director David Wnendt, adapting Charlotte Roche’s controversial, conservative-enraging novel, for […]
Continue readingSay yes to the undressed – Under the Skin review
July 4, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo July 4, 2014 Sensory experiences such as Under the Skin defy mere words, which is going to make enthusiastically recommending it a tricky task indeed. The picture stars Scarlett Johansson as an extra-terrestrial who seduces Glaswegian men as a means of harvesting their organic material, for some alien mission we’re never made […]
Continue readingPhoto sensitivity – Finding Vivian Maier review
July 4, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo July 4, 2014 Separating the art from the artist – or the sandwich art from the sandwich artist – is sticky stuff. Maybe impossible. Inappropriate, even. But what if the art has separated itself from the artist; is lost and only found after the artist has abandoned their creative pursuits, and appreciated […]
Continue readingHicker than your average – Joe review
July 2, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo July 2, 2014 Nicolas Cage is as if the question “Turn down for what?” took human form and then starred in a bunch of direct-to-DVD thrillers. For him, there is no such thing as a ‘phoned-in’ performance. Performances should be delivered with gusto, peppered with screaming fits. It’s become harder and harder […]
Continue readingRevelation Perth International Film Festival – White Reindeer review
July 8, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo July 8, 2013 The holidays are hard, and writer-director Zach Clark only makes them harder on his Christmas-loving heroine in White Reindeer. The spectacularly affecting Anna Margaret Hollyman stars in the black (despite what the title might imply) comedy as Suzanne, a professional, thirty-something real estate agent looking forward to moving to Hawaii […]
Continue readingRevelation Perth International Film Festival – The Fifth Season review
July 8, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo July 8, 2013 The Fifth Season will be a sobering experience for anyone who has long denied the possibility of Earth’s ecosystem collapsing upon itself, and a terrifying one for those who sulk if the tap water doesn’t get hot enough for a shave (I, shamefully, belong to the latter group). It […]
Continue readingRevelation Perth International Film Festival – Pictures of Superheroes review
July 5, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo July 5, 2013 With his debut feature film, Pictures of Superheroes, writer-director Don Swaynos emerges with a fully formed comedic voice, if not a fully formed screenplay. Ably assisted by a winning cast, he inspires a great number of laughs over the flick’s swift 70 minute running time. Though, for a movie […]
Continue readingRevelation Perth International Film Festival – The Act of Killing review
July 5, 2013 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo July 5, 2013 Joshua Oppenheimer‘s The Act of Killing is, at the very least, unlike anything we’ve seen before. Gruelling, harrowing, and weirdly funny, it follows the real-life Indonesian gangsters who were tasked by militia in the 1960s to execute communists, intellectuals, and the Chinese. Many of these subjects are seemingly untroubled […]
Continue readingF is for Frédéric – The Imposter review
July 10, 2012 0 Comments
The Imposter – Directed by Bart Layton. By Simon Miraudo. The Imposter plays the Revelation Perth International Film Festival on July 12 and 14, 2012. A child goes missing, and, three years later, returns with a different accent, eye-colour, and complexion. If the kid was yours, and you had endured the trauma of losing your […]
Continue readingShe’s got the look – Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present review
July 10, 2012 2 Comments
Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present – Starring Marina Abramović. Directed by Matthew Akers and Jeff Dupre. By Simon Miraudo. Marina Abramović: The Artist is Present plays the Revelation Perth International Film Festival on July 10, 2012. It does not yet have an Australian release date. If you have been looking for the natural meeting […]
Continue readingKeep it in the family – The Colour Wheel review
July 9, 2012 1 Comment
The Colour Wheel – Starring Alex Ross Perry, Carlen Altman and Bob Byington. Directed by Alex Ross Perry. By Simon Miraudo. The Colour Wheel plays the Revelation Perth International Film Festival on July 9 and 14, 2012. It does not yet have an Australian release date. I suspect The Colour Wheel is not in black-and-white because of […]
Continue readingThey share everything – Your Sister’s Sister review
July 9, 2012 3 Comments
Your Sister’s Sister – Starring Mark Duplass, Emily Blunt, and Rosemarie DeWitt. Directed by Lynn Shelton. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. Your Sister’s Sister played the Revelation Perth International Film Festival. It hits Australian cinemas September 6, 2012. With just a handful of credits to her name, Lynn Shelton has rocketed to the top of my […]
Continue readingDo the right thing – The Interrupters review
July 6, 2012 0 Comments
The Interrupters – Directed by Steve James. Rated M. By Simon Miraudo. The Interrupters plays the Revelation Perth International Film Festival on July 6, 11, and 13, 2012. It does not yet have an Australian release date. Steve James‘ documentary The Interrupters arrives eighteen years after his Oscar-nominated Hoop Dreams, and it acts as a […]
Continue readingBleary eyes, full heart – Undefeated review
July 6, 2012 2 Comments
Undefeated – Directed by Daniel Lindsay and T.J. Martin. By Simon Miraudo. Undefeated plays the Revelation Perth International Film Festival on July 7 and 10, 2012. It does not yet have an Australian release date. There’s only room in one’s life for a certain number of passions. Hopefully family and friends take up the first […]
Continue readingRevelation Perth International Film Festival – William S Burroughs: A Man Within
July 21, 2011 0 Comments
William S Burroughs: A Man Within – Directed by Yony Leyser. By Danielle Marsland. William S. Burroughs: A Man Within plays the Revelation Perth International Film Festival on Sunday July 24. This documentary is not so much focused on the celebrity of William S. Burroughs, or his role as one of the key leaders of […]
Continue readingRevelation Perth International Film Festival – Meek’s Cutoff review
July 15, 2011 0 Comments
Meek’s Cutoff – Starring Michelle Williams, Bruce Greenwood and Will Patton. Directed by Kelly Reichardt. By Simon Miraudo. Meek’s Cutoff plays the Revelation Perth International Film Festival on Saturday 16 July and Friday 22 July. Some are saying that ‘nothing happens’ in Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff, a slow burn drama about a group of wannabe-settlers […]
Continue readingRevelation Perth International Film Festival – Tyrannosaur review
July 15, 2011 1 Comment
Tyrannosaur – Starring Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman and Eddie Marsan. Directed by Paddy Considine. By Simon Miraudo. Tyrannosaur plays the Revelation Perth International Film Festival on Saturday July 16 and Monday July 18. Directorial debuts are rarely as brutal or furious as Paddy Considine’s Tyrannosaur. The reasoning behind that title becomes apparent late in the […]
Continue readingRevelation Film Festival – Bunny and the Bull review
July 12, 2010 0 Comments
Bunny and the Bull – Starring Edward Hogg, Simon Farnaby and Veronica Echegui. Directed by Paul King. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. Bunny and the Bull is playing at the Revelation Perth International Film Festival on Tuesday 13 of July and Saturday 17 July. Television directors seem to have a real difficult time making the […]
Continue readingRevelation Film Festival – The House of the Devil review
July 7, 2010 0 Comments
The House of the Devil – Starring Jocelin Donahue, Greta Gerwig and Tom Noonan. Directed by Ti West. By Simon Miraudo. The House of the Devil is playing at the Revelation Perth International Film Festival on Friday 9th July and Saturday 17th July. We’ve got a limited number of double passes to a late night […]
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