Writer/director/actor Jude Klassen’s first feature film Love in The Sixth begins with a compelling opening scene. Interviewed with her boyfriend, a woman states she is “still waiting for that zing”. Her long-term boyfriend looks on, attempting to hide his dismay. And that is the first minute. Love in The Sixth is a genre-bending film
Ad Astra: Thirty years ago, Clifford McBride (Tommy Lee Jones) led a voyage into deep space, but the ship and crew were never heard from again. Now his son Roy (Brad Pitt) -- a fearless astronaut -- must embark on a daring mission to Neptune to uncover the truth about
Toxic Beauty. The ingredients in your makeup could kill you. Toxic Beauty is very much tip-of-the-iceberg stuff. Director Phyllis Ellis recognises this, and concentrates on two threads throughout. Firstly, a group of women affected by the Johnson & Johnson talc scandal. Secondly, medical student Mymy Nguyen’s decision to test herself for
Not Quite Adults (Tampoco Tan Grandes) opens with our lead Lola (Paula Reca) attempting to steal sunglasses from a convenience store. The film never explains why Lola does this, she does make another attempt later in on, and it’s not explained then either. In fact, it’s a plot point that
Dark, Almost Night: BRWC Raindance Review. By Matt Keay. Fairytales have been an integral part of our culture for centuries. Applied metaphorically, the model enabled preliterate civilisations to form their own literature, morphing into the cautionary tales we know them as in modern society. The tropes of these tales, (old
