Lawrie Brewster’s The Reign of Queen Ginnarra begins with a ballad about said queen, and a text quote from H.P. Lovecraft, so that when the ballad’s lyrics describe Ginnarra as “prophet of the Old Ones, mistress of the dark”, we know that her fantasy realm is directly linked to the imaginative worlds of the late…
At the beginning of Jane Spencer’s South of Hope Street, Denise (Tanna Frederick) leaves her place of work, sits on a low wall with her colleagues outside, opens her well-thumbed copy of Sylvia Plath’s Letters Home: Correspondence 1950-1963 and underlines with a blue marker pen words that she has evidently written herself in capitals: “BLACK…
Review first published by Grolsch FilmWorks “Once upon a time, there was a President who had a very bad temper. One day the President’s family went to the airport. They had to fly far, far away. The President’s grandson didn’t want to go with his family so he stayed with his grandfather.” In what opening…