Film

It is said that greed and fear are the dominant emotions in financial markets. But “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” is all about revenge. During the 23 years since the first Wall Street film, Gordon Gekko has been plotting his comeback…

Got tweens in the house? We review two new films, one a book adaptation, and one a remake of a Disney classic animation. Anya takes the boys to see Diary of a Wimpy Kid, and The Sorcerer’s Apprentice…

Flight of the Concords star, Jemaine Clement stars in Predicament, an adaptation of the Ronald Hugh Morrieson book about Cedric Williamson, a naïve teenager who gets roped into blackmailing adulterous couples by two shady strangers…

If Outrageous Fortune is our local version of a criminal family, then Animal Kingdom is entirely the opposite. It’s not even the Australian answer to The Godfather, just an incredibly well done noir crime thriller…

For those of us who can’t quite manage to squeeze a trip to Italy out of the budget this year: fear not. The Italian Film Festival 2010 includes ‘something for everyone from teenagers to non-subtitle-reading husbands’…

It’s 1975 and rebellious LA teens Joan Jett (Kristen Stewart) and Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning) meet and become seminal members of The Runaways who will make history and pave the way for generations of girl rockers to come…

The synopses of Kathy Dudding’s Asylum Pieces described it as a ‘personal essay’ looking at what the architecture of mental asylums could tell us of how mental illness has been treated…

This weekend only see the hilarious film LONDON ASSURANCE, a brilliantly funny Victorian comedy from National Theatre. Thread attended the preview screening and loved it…

As a former anthropology student I had a special interest in ‘Secrets of the Tribe’, the story of how egotistical anthropologists exploited the Brazilian Indian tribe Yamomani in the 1970s…

The tables are turned on the director in an entertaining doco about the enigmatic street artist Banksy, a 20-year old directs an insightful teen angst film, and a critical look at the War on Terror…