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Terra Nullius: Episode 6 (The Crown season 4 recaps)

28th November 2020 by Sarah Cartland

My series review is here. Or read my episode recaps: episode 1 (Gold Stick),  episode 2 (The Balmoral Test), episode 3 (Fairytale), episode 4 (Favourites), episode 5 (Fagan), episode 7 (The Hereditary Principle), episode 8 (48:1), episode 9 (Avalanche), and episode 10 (War). “The perfect wife, the perfect princess, and the whole place goes nuts.” It’s February… Terra Nullius: Episode 6 (The Crown season 4 recaps) Read More

Filed Under: TV Shows Tagged With: AAA, australia, prince charles, prince william, princess diana, terra nullius, the crown

INTERVIEW: writer-director Natalie Erika James on her inter-generational horror story Relic

29th October 2020 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

“The idea that these memories could be within this never-ending sinister space, a labyrinth-like space, that was really the first image and the starting point.” Relic director and co-writer Natalie Erika James Natalie Erika James’s bold and shocking horror Relic takes place in an outwardly serene and beautiful family home in Australia, a home that inside… INTERVIEW: writer-director Natalie Erika James on her inter-generational horror story Relic Read More

Filed Under: Featured Bottom 3, Film Festivals, Interviews, London Film Festival Tagged With: AAA, australia, dementia, horror, Japan, natalie erika james, relic

Writer-director Michael Beets on his LIVE lockdown horror movie “In The Shadow It Waits”

29th July 2020 by Sarah Cartland

“It looks like a film, but it hinges on the excitement of live performance. I’d love to give this format a name, so any ideas are welcome!” Michael Beets A study of isolation combined with modern living, In The Shadow It Waits sees a group of twenty-something colleagues, struggling with lockdown, become entangled in a… Writer-director Michael Beets on his LIVE lockdown horror movie “In The Shadow It Waits” Read More

Filed Under: Interviews, Lockdown Tagged With: AAA, australia, horror, in the shadow it waits, live, lockdown, michael beets

Storm Boy 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

6th April 2020 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

When Michael Kingley, a retired businessman, sees images from his past that he can’t explain, he is forced to recall his childhood memories and how, as a boy, he rescued and raised an orphaned pelican, Mr Percival. Arriving just in time for our locked-down Easter holidays, this film about self-isolation, loneliness, and our enduring connections to… Storm Boy Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: australia, bereavement, conservation, indigenous people, pelicans

Little Monsters (London Film Festival 2019) 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

12th October 2019 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

Little Monsters is a great advert for teacher excellence, if not much of a recruiting tool – as multi-talented kindergarten teacher Miss Caroline has to save her class of small charges as they face down an attempted zombie apocalypse. I  say attempted; it does feel a little half-hearted, as the world’s slowest undead hordes stagger round… Little Monsters (London Film Festival 2019) Read More

Filed Under: Featured 2, Film Reviews, London Film Festival Tagged With: australia, children, school, teachers, zombies

The Nightingale (Sundance London) 3 stars☆☆☆☆☆

5th August 2019 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

It’s an easy get-out, to anoint a movie “a hard watch”, but Jennifer Kent’s period revenge thriller The Nightingale is just that. I went in with no other information beyond this being a follow up to The Babadook, a horror film about a menaced, powerless child but really about loneliness and grief. This is, in… The Nightingale (Sundance London) Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews, Sundance London Tagged With: 19th century, Aborigines, australia, british, indigenous people, tasmania

Isn’t It Romantic – 1 Minute Video Review Includes Video 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

3rd March 2019 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

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Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: australia, gay friend, love, new york, PG-13, romantic comedy, romcom, video-review

Isn’t It Romantic 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

2nd March 2019 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

I’m delighted to say that Isn’t It Romantic doesn’t have one original idea in it. You’ll have seen them all before, in a thousand romcoms – but director Todd Strauss-Schulson has taken those ideas, chucked them into the air then watched them fall to the ground in perfect order, a bit like if Rebel Wilson did… Isn’t It Romantic Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: australia, bff, gay friend, love, new york, PG-13, romantic comedy, romcom

Sweet Country Trailer: Warwick Thornton Tackles Racism & Justice

12th February 2018 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

*** My review of Sweet Country is now up *** A tale of death and racism in 1920s Australia, Sweet Country is a gut-wrenching but brilliant and gripping film set amid an arid but beautiful landscape, from director Warwick Thornton (Samson And Delilah). Sam (Hamilton Morris in his first professional role), an aboriginal farmer, is… Sweet Country Trailer: Warwick Thornton Tackles Racism & Justice Read More

Filed Under: Trailers Tagged With: australia, bryan brown, hamilton morris, racism, sam neill, sweet country, warwick thornton

Lion 4.5 stars☆☆☆☆☆

21st January 2017 by Sarah Cartland 1 Comment

Google Earth was pretty much obsolete now that 99% of the planet was covered by lakes of cinema goers' tears

“Did you REALLY look for my mum?” asks little Saroo, in an orphanage in Calcutta, sitting opposite Mrs Sood, a kind but firm woman charged with finding new homes overseas for unclaimed children. “I looked everywhere”, she replies. And with that, Saroo has to move on to a new family far away in Tasmania, while acknowledging that his mum… Lion Read More

Filed Under: Featured 3, Film Reviews Tagged With: a long way home, adoption, australia, dev patel, divian ladwa, film review, garth davis, india, lion, lion movie, lion review, lost children, movie review, nicole kidman, rooney mara, saroo brierley, sunny pawar, trains, true story

Light Between Oceans 4 stars☆☆☆☆☆

7th November 2016 by Sarah Cartland Leave a Comment

So far for her birthday she'd only got a boring old spinning top and yet another ridiculous bonnet, but there was still a chance of an iPhone 7 in the giant amazon box

Guilt. That’s what they could have called Light Between Oceans, though it wouldn’t have conveyed the light-drenched sunrises that the gorgeous cinematography scatters through this film. And I was already feeling guilty at hardly having reviewed any Fassbender films despite him being officially trademarked as one of the Best Actors of his Generation. I have… Light Between Oceans Read More

Filed Under: Film Reviews Tagged With: alicia vikander, australia, baby loss, bryan brown, derek cianfrance, film review, first world war, light between oceans, light between oceans review, lighthouse, lost at sea, michael fassbender, miscarriage, movies review, ptsd, rachel weisz, shipwreck

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