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Ellis Park review – prioritises heart over clarity

Therapy, as we know, can take a number of different forms. For Australian multi-instrumentalists and Nick Cave cohort, Warren Ellis, this process of self-enrichment encompasses a wildlife

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Hen – first-look review | Little White Lies

The first image of György Pálfi’s Hen – an extended close-up on a chicken’s cloaca as she lays an egg – might take the prize for the most

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Ghost Trail review – subtle to a fault

Jonathan Millet’s Ghost Trail played at the Cannes Film Festival a full year before Jafar Panahi’s Palme d’Or-winning It Was Just an Accident, which is worth

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A Big Bold Beautiful Journey review – Kogonada…

Early into the namesake for A Big Bold Beautiful Journey, David (Colin Farrell) and Sarah (Margot Robbie) venture back in time to his high school, on the

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Playground Love: How Air scored The Virgin…

Nevertheless, Coppola knew what she wanted and, pressed for time, Godin and Dunckle returned to the studio for a weekend. In need of vocals, they turned

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From Ground Zero: Stories from Gaza review – a…

For anyone that has paid even a modicum of attention to the daily images coming out of Palestine, the scenes that make up From Ground Zero will

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Venice Film Festival Special 2025

On Truth & Movies this week, we come to you live from the city that gave us Don’t Look Now and The Souvenir, Venice, where we’re

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Below The Clouds – first-look review

If one goes into Below the Clouds looking for the dramatic eruptions of similarly themed films such as Fire of Love and Dante’s Peak, there is not much luck

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Remake – first-look review | Little White Lies

Elsewhere, McElwee films old friends who starred in his earlier films, such as Charleen Swansea, a poetry teacher and friend of Ezra Pound who now has

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The Smashing Machine – first-look review

Of course there have been inevitable (and not entirely unfair) jokes about The Rock running for an Oscar since The Smashing Machine was announced, but