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Film Festivals 2015

Mavis! (2015)

7.4/10
Director: Jessica Edwards
Starring: Mavis Staples, Adam Ayers, Gene Barge

Gospel/soul music legend and civil rights icon Mavis Staples shines in a film that's rich with six decades of music and song. Lead singer of The Stap... Read more

The End of the Tour (2015)

7.3/10
Director: James Ponsoldt
Starring: Anna Chlumsky, Joan Cusack, Jesse Eisenberg, Jason Segel

This love song to the art of conversation is about a Rolling Stone journalist, David Lipsky (Jesse Eisenberg) who is infatuated with the novelist Davi... Read more

Meru (2015)

7.7/10
Director: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi

With jaw-dropping cinematography and and direct access to the trials, drive and anxieties of its renowned mountain climbing subjects, Meru is a hybrid... Read more

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night (2014)

7/10
Director: Ana Lily Amirpour
Starring: Mozhan Marno, Arash Marandi, Marshall Manesh, Sheila Vand

Ana Lily Amirpour's debut is set in the fictitious locale of Bad City, in which The Girl, a sassy loner who roams the streets on a skateboard she stol... Read more

Holding the Man (2015)

7.3/10
Director: Neil Armfield
Starring: Ryan Corr, Kerry Fox, Anthony LaPaglia, Guy Pearce, Geoffrey Rush, Sarah Snook,...

Timothy Conigrave's memoir, Holding the Man, is a love story for the ages, and Neil Armfeld's film honours it beautifully. Conigrave met John Caleo... Read more

Banksy Does New York (2014)

7.2/10
Director: Chris Moukarbel

Banksy is revered and reviled, considered both a vandal and a genius. Completely anonymous, he is nevertheless without question one of the world's bes... Read more

Steve McQueen: The Man and Le Mans (2015)

9.1/10
Director: John McKenna, Gabriel Clark
Starring: Steve McQueen

By the end of the 60s Steve McQueen was amongst Hollywoods highest paid and most powerful stars  and the coolest dude behind the wheel of any vehicl... Read more

The Wrecking Crew (2008)

7.6/10
Director: Danny Tedesco
Starring: Cher , Glen Campbell, Micky Dolenz, Dick Clark, Herb Alpert, Lou Adler, Carol Ka...

Director Denny Tedesco is an enthusiastic guide to the legacy of his father, LA session guitarist Tommy Tedesco, and the loose coterie of ace musician... Read more

Experimenter (2015)

6.6/10
Director: Michael Almereyda
Starring: Winona Ryder, Peter Sarsgaard, Jim Gaffigan, Eduardo Ballerini, Kellan Lutz, Den...

Social psychologist Stanley Milgrams obedience tests, conducted at Yale during the 60s, are studied, referenced and debated to this day. Reconstructi... Read more

The Ground We Won (2015)

8.1/10
Director: Christopher Pryor, Miriam Smith

The Ground We Won is a vérité documentary study of manhood as observed through the rites and rituals of a rural New Zealand rugby club. With great baw... Read more