Art Imitates Life

Art Imitates Life

Have you ever wondered how art imitates life? Here’s a fresh look at geek culture and what it’s all about. • X-Men is about civil rights. If you didn’t get that, you didn’t get X-Men. • Black Panther is about colonization. If you didn’t get that, you...
Joker: Michael Moore LOVES this movie

Joker: Michael Moore LOVES this movie

On Wednesday night I attended the New York Film Festival and witnessed a cinematic masterpiece, the film that last month won the top prize as the Best Film of the Venice International Film Festival. It’s called “Joker” — and all we Americans have heard about this...
Sydney Film Festival  2011

Sydney Film Festival 2011

Sydney film critic Bryn Tilly provides a festival overview and selects his essential viewing for the Sydney film festival 2011 … depending on your movie sensibilities … Now in it’s 58th year the SFF is proud to present eleven days of international features and...
Actual Sex in Mainstream Cinema

Actual Sex in Mainstream Cinema

Bryn Tilly writes on the world’s hottest current sex in cinema trends … Sex in cinema has been around for donkey’s years. In fact, ever since moving pictures first started being produced and distributed early in the 20th century there were blue movies...
Separation City

Separation City

Sydney-based Wellingtonian BRYN TILLY reviews a film set in his home town, and sheds only tears of amusement, not sentimentality in the process… The ebb and flow of attraction, the mysterious allure of love’s carnal duplicity, the fragility of domestic...