By Simon Miraudo June 10, 2014 The Rover is a hugely stressful tone poem in which on-screen characters are constantly being shot and killed by off-screen characters. That precise trick made for a startling capper to David Michôd‘s breakout hit Animal Kingdom, and he trots it out again several times in his theatrical follow-up. It’s […]
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A festivus for the rest of us: Sydney Film Festival 2014 begins!
June 4, 2014 
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The Sydney Film Festival is once again upon us, and 2014’s slate is as tantalising as any that has come before. This, of course, means our editorial team will be occupied skittering from darkened cinema to darkened cinema, up all night scribbling reviews, and frantically posting them each morning for the pleasure of those unable […]
Continue readingThe top 10 films to catch at the 2014 Sydney Film Festival
June 3, 2014 0 Comments
By Simon Miraudo June 3, 2014 The Sydney Film Festival is upon us again, and you can trust us to cover all the hits, misses, and, well, whatever word we end up using to describe that single-shot Iranian slasher flick (more on that later). Scheduling and prioritising movies can be a stressful endeavour, so here […]
Continue readingSydney Film Festival unveils its 2014 program
May 7, 2014 0 Comments
The Sydney Film Festival’s 2014 program has been loosed upon the world, boasting the Australian debut of David Michôd’s Animal Kingdom follow-up The Rover and Richard Linklater’s decade-spanning Boyhood, as well as hotly anticipated international titles such as Bong Joon-ho’s first English-language effort, Snowpiercer, and the Dardenne brothers’ Two Days, One Night, starring Marion Cotillard. All four of those features will screen in SFF’s official competition, alongside 20,000 Days on […]
Continue readingTrailer Debut: The Rover
January 30, 2014 0 Comments
Here is your first look at The Rover, David Michôd’s follow-up to his hugely successful Australian crime thriller Animal Kingdom. Michôd has reunited with his Kingdom star Guy Pearce for this one, which looks just as stressful and grim as their last collaboration. In the flick, Pearce plays a man searching for a prized possessions in a dystopian wasteland. Another of AK‘s alum, Joel […]
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