GOOD FORTUNE : A PLEASANT ROMP WITH A MESSAGE

Well, GOOD FORTUNE  is certainly not an art film. On one level, it’s a rather quaint romp, which has its good points, and is often mildly amusing. Certainly members of the preview audience were prompted to laugh out loud at …

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JOURNEY HOME : DAVID GULPILIL

This is a thoughtful story of heritage and identity. An excellent documentary.

JOURNEY HOME is a  loving tribute to a legend  of Australian cinema.  Its a deep record of grief, community  and ceremony  in which the renowned actor  is laid …

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DEEPER : THE SIREN CALL OF CAVE DIVING

How deep will you dive in pursuit of something  that’s always out of reach? You’ve  just helped rescue  a dozen  Thai schoolchildren  and their teacher from a perilous  underwater cave!   What are you going to do next?” 

 “I’m  going …

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CHAINSAW MEN – REZE ARC : A FUN TIME AT THE MOVIES

REZE ARC is ‘Chainsaw Man’ polished to explosive and unhinged  perfection.

Its not the beast you remember,  but something bespoke- sleeker, wilder, tenderer, louder. Drenched in technicolor  rage, reshaped by its absence  and sharpened by years of tapping  on the …

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BUGONIA: VISUAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL BUG OUT

Begosh and begora, BUGONIA, is the bee’s knees in the hive of recent conspiracy theory pictures coming out of the Disunited States of Trumponia.

From Yorgos Lanthimos, the director of Poor Things and The Favourite, comes a

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SHELL: PRAWNOGRAPHIC FUN

Pulchritudinous. It sounds dirty but it means pretty. It’s a word that Kate Hudson’s character, Zoe Shannon is enamoured of in Max Minghella’s SHELL.

Superior B picture in the vein of The Substance, SHELL takes its name from the

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