As the nazis rose to power in Germany and annexed Austria, famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and his family, including daughter Anna and her girlfriend Dorothy, fled Vienna for London. There, Freud reestablished his practice and as his health failed, he groomed Anna as his successor. In 1939, as World War 2 began, it is alleged he was visited one afternoon
Read moreTennis themed romantic comedy/ drama Challengers is the latest film for Call Me By Your Name director Luca Gaudagnino. Like that film, it’s a slow burn exploration of passionate but fractured relationships. Also, as with that languid and literate film, some will be utterly seduced by it while others may find it overlong and unfocused. The film concerns a love
Read moreLast year’s standout Aussie film, Talk To Me seems to have broken ground for Aussie horror films internationally. Appearing to benefit from this is supernatural horror/comedy Late Night With the Devil which has apparently been a sensation in the US after generating a serious buzz at the South-By-South West Film Festival. The film takes what had become a slightly tired
Read moreAmy Winehouse was sadly one of those mercurial music talents taken from the world much too young; in fact, at the ill-fated age of 27. Her 2007 album Back To Black, which combined classic soulful torch songs and swaggering upbeat jazzy numbers was one of the decade’s finest. The 2000’s arguably represented a second ‘Cool Britannia’ in music with the
Read moreThe recent Hollywood Godzilla and King Kong films have been enormous, lumbering, jokey, CGI onslaughts that have offered some impressive spectacle and monster porn but (smatterings of techno jargon aside) seem to have mostly been aimed at 12-year-olds. Despite a distinct lack of cinematic nutrition, they’ve been successful enough to spawn multiple sequels and now we have the latest effort,
Read moreThe Gen X nostalgia train rolls on with latest resurrection of an 80’s favourite, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. The original Ghostbusters from 1984 was a fun mix of sci fi, supernatural spookiness and zany comedy. The film worked in part because of the concept and director Ivan Reitman’s deft orchestration of its various elements but mostly because of the cast: Bill
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