Concrete Playground

Tuesday, 31st August - Sunday, 5th September
@ Palace Verona

The seventh Israeli Film Festival is taking place in Sydney this week. Showcasing an exciting, diverse range of films, the programme includes the controversial Eyes Wide Open, which navigates the... Read More »

Thursday, 12th August - Wednesday, 8th September
@ Various cinemas

Producer and co-star Martin Dingle Wall calls The Nothing Men "a rusty nail, one inch punch of a film," and there's honestly no better way to describe it. Set in... Read More »

Thursday, 29th July - Thursday, 9th September
@ Various cinemas

The first thing that strikes you about South Solitary is its visual splendor. Gorgeous cinematography and unshowy period production and costume design effortlessly draw the audience into Meredith's (Miranda Otto)... Read More »

Friday, 13th August - Friday, 10th September
@ Artspace

Ms&Mr are a fortunate unity. A two-person singular-entity pursuing a single-minded dual obsession with sentimental film and science fiction. Continuing to write their shared history, lived in the parallel dimension... Read More »

Thursday, 9th September - Saturday, 11th September
@ Factory Theatre

Is it that time again already? The Sydney Underground Film Festival is back; bigger and better than ever! If you thought Harmony Korine couldn't out-do Julien Donkey Boy and Gummo,... Read More »

Thursday, 2nd September - Wednesday, 15th September
@ Dendy Newtown

Those with a passion for anime have something a little more than a passion. Obsession is perhaps a better word. So while I may be frustrated waiting for the next... Read More »

Thursday, 5th August - Wednesday, 15th September
@ Various cinemas

Longed to see the grandeur and mythmaking of American drama combined with the British penchant to satirise, depict government by fools, strip away the stateliness of 'great men' and film... Read More »

Friday, 10th September - Sunday, 26th September
@ Newtown

Ugly ducklings, scapegoats, white crows, black sheep — farmyards sure know how to single out the atypical. Thank goodness the humans of the Inner West know how to celebrate furry... Read More »

Monday, 16th August - Sunday, 26th September
@ SBW Stables Theatre

Reading between the lines is an underrated life skill. Sarcasm or honest concern? Compliment or sexual innuendo? Luckily, Griffin Theatre has chosen to spell it out for us.Between The Lines... Read More »

Thursday, 26th August - Sunday, 26th September
@ Various cinemas

If we are to believe cinema, murder is a game of cat and mouse. Michael Winterbottom’s The Killer Inside Me has a cat — Lou Ford (Casey Affleck), a sheriff... Read More »

Friday, 16th July - Sunday, 26th September
@ Randwick Racecourse

In almost any American movie worth its weight, there's a great scene set at a drive-in. Think Grease, Twister, Accidents Happen and many more. The lesson to be learnt is... Read More »

Tuesday, 17th August - Wednesday, 29th September
@ Various cinemas

Years of hipster geekdom have led to this, a film directed by Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, Spaced), starring Michael Cera (Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Juno,... Read More »

Thursday, 19th August - Thursday, 30th September
@ Various cinemas

A comedy about suicide bombers sounds like a tough sell by any stretch of the imagination. But when that imagination stems from British satirist Chris Morris, there is some sort... Read More »

Thursday, 19th August - Thursday, 30th September
@ Various cinemas

Beloved character actor Patricia Clarkson (High Art, Pieces of April, The Station Agent) finally steps onto centre stage in Ruba Nadda’s luscious Egyptian love story. Actually 'love story' doesn’t do... Read More »

Saturday, 26th June - Sunday, 3rd October
@ Chauvel Cinema

While publicly we may snub our noses at the silver spoons of high culture, we all secretly desire to dust off our hats, don our coats and march off to... Read More »

Thursday, 26th August - Tuesday, 5th October
@ Various cinemas

The French love of cinema is given vibrant new depth in Mia Hanson-Love's reverent ode. The writer-director's sophomore film follows charming film producer and joyous family man Gregoire Canvel (Louis-Do... Read More »

Thursday, 2nd September - Thursday, 14th October
@ Various cinemas

Going the Distance may not exactly rock the conventions of the rom-com, but it is a refreshingly vibrant addition to the genre. So while the meet-cute, montages and requisite emotional... Read More »

Monday, 2nd August - Thursday, 14th October
@ Various cinemas

How does that saying go? 'The only functional family is one you haven’t met yet.' This certainly holds for Lisa Cholodenko's (High Art, Laurel Canyon) latest filmic family, made up... Read More »

Thursday, 2nd September - Thursday, 21st October
@ Various cinemas

If anything is going to get us over our cultural cringe, it must be this serious, big-budget-ish adaptation of the Tomorrow series, a collection of YA novels that's as dear... Read More »

Thursday, 3rd June - Thursday, 14th July
@ Various cinemas

Although reincarnation seems appealing if you were to you come back as, say, a lion, it's perhaps slightly less so when you consider that you might end up a cockroach.... Read More »

Thursday, 22nd July - Sunday, 28th August
@ Various cinemas

What are ideas anyway? They're those big, abstract tangles floating above our heads that we pull down and argue about now and then, right? Most of the time we're too... Read More »