The Top 10 Male Performances of 2012. By Simon Miraudo. With 2012 coming to a close, it’s time to reflect on the year’s cinematic treats, and then crowbar each work of art into a numerical position on a comparative chart. Comedies versus dramas! Thrills versus chills! The great versus the very good! This is the […]
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Sight and Sound reveal their picks for the Top 11 Films of 2012
December 4, 2012 
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Top Ten season has begun and UK magazine Sight And Sound recently announced their 2012 poll results which surveys over 90 critics, film programmers and academics. The list in an interesting one, balancing predictable top ten fare with some genuine dark horse appearances. The Master, unsurprisingly, takes top spot, and appearances by Amour, Holy Motors, […]
Continue readingThe top 10 foreign language films of 2012
November 23, 2012 2 Comments
The top 10 foreign language films of 2012. By Simon Miraudo. With 2012 coming to a close, it’s time to reflect on the year’s cinematic treats, and then crowbar each work of art into a numerical position on a comparative chart. Comedies versus dramas! Thrills versus chills! The great versus the very good! This is […]
Continue readingThe top 10 Halloween costumes for 2012
October 26, 2012 0 Comments
The top 10 Halloween costumes for 2012. By Simon Miraudo. Picking the perfect Halloween costume is a tricky business. How do you capture the Zeitgeist, inspire genuine laughter (or chills), display ironic detachment, and still look good? Like we said: tricky. At Halloween parties across the country, you can expect plenty of PSYs and Honey Boo-Boos […]
Continue readingI started a joke – Holy Motors review
August 21, 2012 0 Comments
Holy Motors – Starring Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, and Kylie Minogue. Directed by Leos Carax. Rated MA. By Simon Miraudo. In a similar fashion to Synecdoche, New York and Inception, Leos Carax’s Holy Motors seeks to highlight the incredible and ridiculous efforts taken by artists (and particularly filmmakers) to replicate reality, and how it’s ultimately an impossible feat. However, if they […]
Continue readingTransformer – Holy Motors review
August 10, 2012 0 Comments
Holy Motors – Starring Denis Lavant, Edith Scob, and Kylie Minogue. Directed by Leos Carax. Originally published June 15, 2012. By Richard Haridy. Holy Motors plays the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 11 and 14, 2012. It arrives in Australian cinemas August 23, 2012. This review was first run during the Sydney Film Festival. Holy Motors is a bewildering, indescribably wonderful film […]
Continue readingMIFF bringing big batch of Cannes titles to fest
June 21, 2012 1 Comment
Not much more than two weeks after we had the First Glimpse release, Melbourne International Film Festival have announced another load of films, this time highlighting the haul of over 35 features they picked up from Cannes. As well as previously announced big hitting flicks such as the Palme d’Or winner Amour and Wes Anderson’s […]
Continue readingThe top picks for the 2012 Sydney Film Festival
June 6, 2012 0 Comments
The top picks for the 2012 Sydney Film Festival. By Simon Miraudo. Has it been a year already? I’m back in New South Wales for the 2012 Sydney Film Festival, facing a flurry of flicks even more fantabulous than those featured last time. Well, hopefully! From June 6 to 17, myself and Melbournite Richard Haridy […]
Continue readingMichael Haneke’s Amour wins Palme d’Or at Cannes
May 28, 2012 0 Comments
Michael Haneke has claimed his second Palme d’Or, taking home the top prize at the 65th Cannes Film Festival for Amour. Haneke was previously awarded the trophy in 2009 for his black-and-white examination of festering evil in The White Ribbon. The 2012 jury – headed by Italian director Nanni Moretti – did not reach a unanimous […]
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