Concrete Playground

Thursday, 14th January - Friday, 12th March
@ Various cinemas

George Clooney has been making a habit of anthropomorphising himself this summer. First he played a fox in Wes Anderson's spell-binding Fantastic Mr Fox and now, in Up In The... Read More »

Thursday, 3rd December - Sunday, 14th March
@ Belvedere Amphitheatre, Centennial Park

The new program for The Moonlight Cinema kicks off with Sam Taylor Wood’s John Lennon biopic Nowhere Boy. This beautifully constructed film steps behind the legend to reveal a young... Read More »

Thursday, 11th February - Monday, 15th March
@ Various cinemas

Jacques Audiard serves up another searing character study of crime with his taut portrait of A Prophet. Following up the beautifully realised The Beat My Heart Skipped, Audiard journeys into... Read More »

Thursday, 4th February - Tuesday, 16th March
@ Various cinemas

Precious was never going to be a light-hearted trip to the cinema. Harrowing to the point of being labeled “poverty porn,” it is the story of Claireece “Precious” Jones (Gabourey... Read More »

Wednesday, 3rd February - Wednesday, 17th March
@ Various cinemas

At first glance, one of Australia’s most anticipated films of 2010 hardly looks like a local. With Ethan Hawke and Willem Dafoe taking the leads, Australian twin brothers Peter and... Read More »

Thursday, 4th February - Thursday, 18th March
@ Various cinemas

Mad Mel is back. After seven years off screen, he’s stepped in front of the camera and into very familiar shoes, once again playing a police detective driven to the... Read More »

Friday, 19th March - Saturday, 20th March
@ Sydney Convention Centre

An atheist and a (insert deity-worshipping faithful here) walk into the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre. They each take their seat, peer into their bag of convention goodies, and then... Read More »

Wednesday, 13th January - Saturday, 20th March
@ North Sydney Oval

Taking up residence at the North Sydney Oval, the 2010 Starlight Cinema kicks off with a preview screening of the hilarious British political satire In the Loop. Then for the next two... Read More »

Tuesday, 2nd March - Sunday, 21st March
@ Palace Academy Cinemas

Each year the French Film Festival arrives in Sydney brimming with cinematic gems and a splash of Parisian chic. This year is no different, with the programme featuring a glittering... Read More »

Thursday, 18th February - Thursday, 25th March
@ Various cinemas

War is a drug.Or so Kathryn Bigelow (Point Break) and journalist turned screenwriter Mark Boal (In the Valley of Elah) would have us believe. After being embedded with an Explosive... Read More »

Thursday, 25th February - Thursday, 8th April
@ Various cinemas

There was little doubt fashion designer Tom Ford’s debut film was going to have style, but what about substance? Effortlessly silencing doubters, Ford has taken Christopher Isherwood’s novel, infused a... Read More »

Thursday, 4th March - Thursday, 15th April
@ Various cinemas

Tim Burton’s obsessively anticipated adaptation of Alice in Wonderland finally hits cinemas in all its three-dimensional glory. Burton has transformed Lewis Carroll’s Alice Kingsley into a 19-year-old dreamer (played by... Read More »

Wednesday, 3rd March - Sunday, 18th April
@ AGNSW

As kimono clad onlookers a few floors above traipse around the Hymn to Beauty: The Art of Utamaro exhibition ogling delicate ukiyo-e woodblock prints, rest your weary geta clogs in... Read More »

Wednesday, 17th February - Monday, 26th April
@ Museum of Contemporary Art

You’re likely to have heard of 'Pavlov’s dog', but did you know famed physiologist Ivan Pavlov actually had four dogs — Druzhok, Sultan, Zhuchko, and Tsygan? It was with Druzhok... Read More »

Thursday, 11th March - Sunday, 30th May
@ Various cinemas

France’s illegal immigrant population is given an earnest, charming face in Philippe Lioret's affecting portrait, Welcome. The irony of the title is only the beginning of Lioret’s stirring, incisive look... Read More »

Friday, 19th March - Saturday, 10th July
@ Domain Theatre, Art Gallery of New South Wales

The amazing spell of cinema is such that we are still fascinated by the same stories, albeit sometimes with different actors and set within a slightly different context. Although we... Read More »