The Gleebooks talk was moderated by Australian author and critic James Bradley. Together, Bradley and Robinson spent the next hour carefully navigating the plot of If You Go without spoiling its twists and turns, a rather impressive accomplishment considering the difficulty to discuss without revealing the key plot points.
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Great entourages that are stripped from Lear and the battles fought for the nation fade behind the family. Evan’s approach is to centre the political on the personal.
We all have a memory of when we first drew the “Cool S”. It’s known by many names, but that’s…
Written by and starring Sheanna Parker Russon, No Love Songs for Lady Basses tells the story of a singer who…
Bigfoot fucks, but not enough — and it’s breaking the Zellner brothers’ hearts.
In a way, we were plunged into a boys’ “locker room”, emphasising how the male private-school debating culture fosters a fever of sexism and misogyny that parallels or even outweighs other cultures, such as sports.
While the tension between these two women is a focal point of the film, it is a poignant reminder that the industry intentionally manipulates the lives and experiences of women to distract from the deeply misogynistic foundation it thrives on.
The act of watching the documentary felt pervasive, granting the audience an incredibly intimate dissection of Shiori Itō’s life. She presents traumatising events in such a calm and clinical way through her internal monologue running through the film that you could almost forget she is investigating her own assault.
The way Kapadia shoots light is unsurprisingly beautiful, ethereal and gauzy in some moments, and golden and decadent in others.
What ensues is an incendiary and hilarious charting of the real-life story of Kneecap’s rise from playing deadbeat pubs to becoming a symbol of a larger civil rights movement about the Irish language, clashing with Protestant opposition, censorship, paramilitary groups, violent cops and heavy comedowns.
