Director Sophie Fillières' latest film is worth consideration. Someone's got to review it, and if you don't, Michael Nguyen-Huynh will.

Doll & Em, the television brainchild of actresses Dolly Wells and Emily Mortimer, is the latest work in what seems to be a post-modern trend of established actors playing themselves. Where director Azazel Jacobs’s new comedy series finds its particular edge amongst these works, is through co-writers Wells and Mortimer’s complete willingness to embrace the […]

Kiwi filmmaker Florian Habicht’s new documentary, Pulp: a Film about Life, Death and Supermarkets, opens with the band’s front-man, Jarvis Cocker, recounting a dream he had of changing a car tyre. It’s an appropriately everyday image that begins this film about a band so interested in the ordinary. Cocker’s collaboration with Habicht was fitting too. […]

Ali Schnabel tackles the cinematic and cultural contexts of Backwater, the Japanese high-art underdog at MIFF 2014.

Engagingly poetic and enthusiastically told, Love in the Key of Britpop takes us into the world of a relationship forged in musical commonalities. Emily Andersen tells the story of a Brit boy and an Aussie girl, evolved from drunken stairwell escapades at a New Year’s Day disco into a repetitive, occasionally broke and progressively unhappy […]