
Downton Abbey – A New Era: British country-manor snobbery takes jaunt to south of France
Downton Abbey: A New Era starts with the aftermath of a wedding, of the luckiest chauffeur in Yorkshire, Tom Branson, who lost...

Northman: This big-budget Viking epic offers grit and wild drama in a classic storyline
Expect thundering brutality, subjugation, a mythical sword, a Valkyrie and the cry of the corpse-hound sounding out across the Icelandic tundra under...

Peaceful, sad yet unsentimental, is a highlight of the 2022 French Film Festival
The French title, De Son Vivant, became Peaceful for English audiences but the closer translation, In His Lifetime, is more reflective of what this gentle movie...

Grace Tame wows Adelaide Writers Week with a memoir of abuse, courage … and Scott Morrison
The day young Grace Tame confronted her abuser in his office at school was the day she lost all fear of what...

Robert Pattinson embodies Gotham’s caped crusader in this stylistic Batman noir
When did Robert Pattinson get to be so tall? The sensible answer would be some years ago but his Batman towers over...

C’mon C’mon: A transformative story about modern life and the openness of children
There is nothing ground-breaking about C’mon C’mon’s storyline: An uncle is thrust unexpectedly into the role of parent and amid the ensuing chaos, there...

Film review: Drive My Car is about letting go of secrets and finding forgiveness
This dreamy and exceptional film opens with the recurring obsessions of author Haruki Murakami, on whose short story it is based: namely,...

Death on the Nile is a delightfully sumptuous and fanciful murder mystery
It takes a lot to interest a contemporary film audience in something as inherently old fashioned as an Agatha Christie murder mystery....

Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast captures the universality and warmth of a family’s shared love
Belfast was a lockdown project written by Branagh during a quiet time but also driven by the memories that surfaced of a...

Almodovar’s engaging film Parallel Mothers once again puts women at its heart
Spain’s Pedro Almodóvar has been directing for more than 30 years (his breakthrough, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, came...