Another Year (2010)

Revisiting Mike Leigh’s film, Another Year (2010), there are images of the middle-aged couple Tom (Jim Broadbent), a geologist, and Gerri (Ruth Sheen), a counsellor, that are so appealing and heart-warming to me. Gerri cuddling Tom while he prepares dinner or both of them sitting underneath a tarp with a cup of tea while it […]

Roxanne (1987)

“It must be wonderful to wake up and smell the coffee… in Brazil.” I used to rewatch Roxanne (1987) repeatedly as a kid so it’s a personal favourite, which holds up to me as a meeting point between Steve Martin’s ‘wild and crazy guy’ hipster goofball persona and his artistic ambitions to be taken seriously. […]

In My Blood It Runs (2019)

After being available to rent online, the documentary, In My Blood It Runs (2019) is being screened at some reopened cinemas across Australia in June. I was able to stream it on Kanopy (through UWA Library membership) but it will also be broadcast on ABC in July then available on iView. Directed by Maya Newell, […]