All posts tagged "Film"
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198Film & TVFilm Review: Being Bo Widerberg
The documentary chronicles Bo Widerberg's journey from 1960s Malmö, where he worked as a writer and film critic, to his successes as a director in Stockholm and international adventures in Cannes and New York. The film also explores the personal costs of his artistic vision and how his pursuit of life and authenticity affected both himself and those around him.
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157Film & TVFilm Review: Árru
Weaving together grounded drama with bursts of traditional song (joik) and movement, the singular Árru draws on Sámi cultural expression to explore a breathtakingly genuine connection to the environment. It is a fierce and cathartic tale about resilience, reclaiming one's voice and standing firm for the land that endures.
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173Film & TVNew film releases this week (from 23 July)
This week’s cinema releases include a look at the rise of Putin, four cousins discover a mysterious family history of an ancestor in Paris in the 1890s, the blood splatters at a beach house as the graduation celebrations go wrong, and a documentary tells the story of Pene Pati and his brother Amitai Pati.
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166Film & TVFilm Review: The Wizard of the Kremlin
A young Russian becomes an unlikely advisor to Vladimir Putin as he rises to power in post-Soviet Russia, navigating the new era's complexities and chaos.
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283Film & TVFilm Review: The Kidnapping of a President
On 14 October 1930, Finnish right-wing extremists abducted the nation's first president. But things definitely did not go as planned.
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247Film & TVFilm Review: Home
39-year-old Anni involuntarily has to move back in with her mother after a scandalous incident on live children's television. It looks bleak for the single, broke and homeless soon-to-be 40-year-old, but is it all that bad after all?
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447Film & TVFilm Review: Minions & Monsters
Follows the Minions in 1920s Hollywood as they search for frightening creatures for their monster movie, partner with a green creature, and must save the planet after unleashing monsters.
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371Film & TVFilm Review: The Odyssey
After the Trojan War, Odysseus faces a dangerous voyage back to Ithaca, meeting creatures like the Cyclops Polyphemus, Sirens, and Calypso along the way.
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453Film & TVNew film releases this week (from 16 July)
This week’s cinema releases include a new take on George Orwell’s classic Animal Farm and Christopher Nolan's much discussed and hyped version of Homer's classic poem is finally here.
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181Film & TVFilm Review: Mortician
A reclusive mortician who has been tasked with washing the bodies of recently deceased ex-pat Iranians in Canada. His world is turned upside down when he receives an unusual request from a dissident singer in hiding.
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243Film & TVPersian Film Festival at The Mercury on Friday 24 July and Saturday 25 July
The Persian Film Festival Australia will bring a special touring program of Persian-language cinema to The Mercury on Friday 24 July and Saturday 25 July with two remarkable films that showcase the richness, diversity and cinematic legacy of Iranian storytelling.
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182Film & TVFilm Review: Taboo. Egon Schiele
If, as it has been said before, a work becomes obscene when it is viewed as such by an obscene person, then let us forgive – and praise – Egon Shiele.
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305Film & TVThe 2026 Hurtigruten Nordic Film Festival begins 22 July to 16 August at Palace Nova Cinemas
Time to chase the winter blues away by reflecting on other places much colder with the 2026 Hurtigruten Nordic Film Festival beginning 22 July to 16 August at Palace Nova Cinemas.
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329Film & TVNew film releases this week (from 9 July)
This week’s cinema releases include a classic horror franchise with a new director, an orphaned young woman embarks on a search for her biological father, a ghostly warning about a fab diet, an exploration of a relationship with the neighbours, and there is a documentary about the artist Egon Schiele.
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302Film & TVHeaps Good Shorts – a night of short film celebration at The Mercury, Friday 17 July
The Mercury and West Torrens Library present a special Heaps Good Shorts program of short films on Friday 17 July at The Mercury and will feature a curated selection of short films from the South Australian community.
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269Film & TVFilm Review: The Invite
Joe and Angela's marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbours for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places.
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282Film & TVFilm Review: Silent Friend
Set in the botanical garden of a university in Germany. Three epochs, three personalities, three sometimes clumsy but sincere attempts to free themselves and to create links with the plants and the world of the garden.
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354Film & TVNew film releases this week (from 2 July)
This week’s cinema releases include an exploration of the natural world, a husband tests his wife’s fidelity, Vincent, Cleopatra, and their friends travel to Egypt, the Jackass crew return for the last time, and a young man is abducted, held in chains and forced to reform.
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537Film & TVFilm Review: Toy Story 5
The toys are back and this time, Buzz Lightyear, Woody, Jessie and the rest of the gang's jobs are challenged when they come face-to-face with Lilypad (voice of Greta Lee), a brand-new tablet device that arrives with her own disruptive ideas about what is best for their kid, Bonnie. Will playtime ever be the same?
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209Film & TVFilm Review: The Ice Tower
Jeanne, a 15-year-old orphan, witnesses the shoot for a film adaptation of the fairy tale The Snow Queen, and she becomes fascinated by its star, Cristina, an actress who is just as mysterious and alluring as the Queen she is playing.
