Actor turned screenwriter/director Mark Webber’s somewhat overly ambitious wee film is a piece of faction. He has melded parts of his own life and used his own 4 year old son as his co-star and embroiled a piece of ‘what’s the worst thing that can happen to me’ scenario into an uncomfortable narrative. The premise … Continue reading
There is something quite deliciously old-fashioned about veteran Australian director Fred Schepisi’s latest movie that gives you the distinct feeling that it actually may have been made 20 years ago. It’s all about a domineering matriarch who has been a total control freak all her life : staff, children and local society, and now she … Continue reading
It’s tough being a young Mormon man. At aged 20 you are made to leave home and dispatched to some far flung part of the world to pair up with another innocent youth and for the next two years be a Missionary and force the Gospel on to unsuspecting souls to recruit them as new members … Continue reading
It seems that Europeans have the edge when it comes to telling such elegant tales on the sensitive subject of dementia. Hard to forget the image of Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva as the devoted elderly couple in Micheal Hanke’s Amour in 2012. They stole all our hearts and won every award imaginable in … Continue reading
16 year old Hazel Graze is permanently attached to an oxygen tank that now keeps her alive after her most recent bouts of cancer. If knowing that her days on earth are severely limited isn’t bad enough, she has to cope with her well-meaning parents and their enforced sunny dispositions to just get through each … Continue reading