Arts & Entertainment Reviews
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Arab Film Festival: Halal Love (and Sex)
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A festival favourite at Sundance, Dubai and Rotterdam, Halal Love (and Sex) allows for a peak into the lives and relationships that operate under Islamic Law. -
Tangents: Stateless
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The music on Stateless is exploratory in the purest sense of the word, evoking landscapes and shapes and even a sense of light, the colour of the sky. -
Sing Street
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Sing Street is a sublime visual mixtape of everyone's teen years, when we were all discovering who we are and who we wanted to be. -
The Avalanches: Wildflower
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Wildflower is a compulsively listenable and charmingly inventive record that serves as a reminder of why we missed The Avalanches so much in the first place. -
We Lost The Sea at Oxford Art Factory
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Although the largest explosions of their music erupted in more of a withheld fashion than the force of the record, they played with soul, drawing you in on their introspective journey and bringing the record to life delightfully - a true celebration of their achievement. -
Blood Orange: Freetown Sound
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The album was named for Freetown, where Dev Hynes' Sierra Leonean father grew up, and gives a voice to people who are so often voiceless - immigrants, misfits, people of colour, and sexual minorities. -
Bat for Lashes: The Bride
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Throughout the sonically and thematically cohesive concept album, she plays the titular character of The Bride, exploring the ways in which the happiest time in a woman's life can also be her most vulnerable. -
The Wait
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The confidently made film is languid and hypnotic, with a slow, thoughtful pace drawn forward by strong emotional undercurrents. -
When the Tide Comes In
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When The Tide Comes In is hypnotically intriguing experience, featuring a powerful rhythm of live action inter-dispersed with audio-visual sequences -
Sydney Film Festival: Captain Fantastic
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Viggo Mortenson plays an American Pacific Northwest father, Ben who is home schooling his six children and raising them with Platonic ethics isolated from society. -
Sydney Film Festival: Tharlo
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It is powerful, inspirational and extremely relevant. Everyone should see this - It is a true piece of art. -
Everybody Wants Some!!
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Like Linklater's earlier film Dazed & Confused, Everybody Wants Some!! is like receiving a really great mixtape from a friend. -
Opening Night: OUR Land People Stories
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Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander storytellers, Bangarra Dance Theatre are in their third decade now, and this year Stephen Page celebrates 25 years as Artistic Director. "I don't even know what that means. Compare decades to 40,000 years and … -
Flame Trees
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Flame Trees evokes small town drama and a nod to the glory days of adolescence before life changing events take place. -
Sydney Film Festival: Cinema, mon amour
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The critically acclaimed Romanian documentary, Cinema, mon amour, provides a bleak, yet seemingly accurate depiction of the role of the cinema in modern day Romania. -
Sydney Film Festival: The American Epic
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Music helps us to express ourselves and for many of these people it gave them a voice when the rest of America didn’t want to listen. -
Sydney Film Festival: Ants on a Shrimp
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Ants on a Shrimp is the name of the first of the 15 courses and the documentary film about René Redzepi and his chefs at Noma in Tokyo -
Mitski: Puberty 2
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Puberty 2 is about self-acceptance. Mitski is staking out her place by ensuring that she doesn't erase the things that make her different and unique - the things that set her apart from the white, male hegemony. -
Sydney Film Festival: Heart of a Dog
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Heart of a Dog is structured in a stream-of-consciousness, like a dream. It's full of anecdotes and wry jokes, and observations that fall out of Anderson's mouth with the weight of bowling balls. -
Sydney Film Festival: Strike a Pose
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The new documentary Strike a Pose revisits the Blond Ambition dancers and allows us for the first time take a peek behind the curtain.