I’ve never understood the popularity of Carmen
Bizet’s opera is exhilarating, to be sure, but the narrative appears to take a dim view of a woman’s freedom to choose her partner and also appears to endorse domestic violence.
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This film tells the story of a woman who leaked a classified document that confirmed the existence of Russian interference in the 2016 election that brought Donald Trump to power.
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Powerfully moving film The Last Daughter reveals that, in NSW, Aboriginal children were still being taken from their parents and handed over to non-Indigenous families as late as 1973.
Killer creature lurks in a tank
The Tank has a lot going for it: the characters are strong, the setting is effectively creepy and the monster looks suitably horrid.
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Fed up with the big banks? This will leave you smiling
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Maybe I Do: Gere’s first film in 6 years is about… love
Gere and Susan Sarandon play a pair enjoying a tryst in a lavish hotel room – though he isn’t enjoying it very much.
If you liked Mystery Road, you’ll love Limbo
Simon Baker plays a cop, from a far-off city, sent to a remote opal mining town to review a 20-year-old disappearance.
Infinity Pool a hallucinogenic descent into sex and violence
Nothing can prepare this grisly horror film starring Alexander Skarsgard as a cashed-up foreigner in a third world country.
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