Phil Jeng Kane

It is 1866 and Tom Morris (Peter Mullan) is the two-times winner of the first major golf tournament, the Open Championship in Scotland. He founded the event in 1860 and is considered something of a legend in a game that is still developing. What stops Tom from moving any further in the sport, is his class. He is a groundskeeper and caddy at St. Andrews and he lives with the restraints and expectat...

It is the 1930s in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia. The young and arthritic Maud Dowley (Sally Hawkins) lives a quiet, lonely life sharing a house with her Aunt Ida and brother Charles. She suffers two serious incidents in quick succession. She becomes pregnant and gives birth to what would be an illegitimate child. Maud loses consciousness and her Aunt tells her afterward that her baby was deformed and...

It is the late 1970s and Barry Seal (Tom Cruise) is a real-life pilot who flies for TWA and does some nickel and dime smuggling on the side. He occasionally carries Cuban cigars in his luggage. He sees it as earning extra money for his young family. The CIA see it as a personality trait they can exploit to their advantage. An operative called Monty Schafer (Domhnall Gleeson) approaches Seal with a...

In the 28th Century, humans have spread out across the universe. Many live in a city called Alpha which started life as the International Space Station. It’s a vast, labyrinthine structure of different environments and it houses millions of beings from many planets. The multitude of species co-exist peacefully and share their knowledge. When there is trouble, the police have two particularly effec...

Sam Gardner is eighteen-years old and is on the Autism spectrum. He lives in (the unnamed) Santa Clarita with his younger sister Casey (Brigette Lundy-Paine), his mother Elsa (Jennifer Jason Leigh) and father Doug (Michael Rapaport).  The audience is privy to his thoughts as he sorts out how to deal with life among the neurotypicals (the non-Autistic). He discusses his progress in sessions with hi...

Between 26 May and 4 June, 1940 some 400 000 allied troops (Canadian, French, Belgian and British) were surrounded by German forces in the harbour town of Dunkirk in France. The allies had been routed and effectively pushed into the sea. Trapped in a tiny area of land without supplies, nor reliable transport, the troops waited for large Royal Navy ships to get them to safety. In the end, hundreds ...

MEAL TICKETS is a documentary that charts the journey of Western Australian rock band The Screwtop Detonators. Shot over ten years by director Mat de Koning, this film begins by telling a familiar story of young men who want to play music and who have an ambition to succeed. The Screwtops are former high school friends who are prepared to gig hard and make sacrifices to sell their music and play i...

Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 and lived until 1886. She never travelled far from her home in Amherst, Massachusetts and she published no more than a dozen poems in her lifetime. Her social circle was her family and a few friends. She wrote late at night, so she could think and not be disturbed. As she grew older, she withdrew from contact with the visitors to her home. She earned a reputation a...

TWO PEOPLE is the first feature from Perth filmmaker Rob Livings. The two people of the title are played by Liberty Hills and Nick Pages-Oliver. We don’t discover their character names, but she is new to Perth and used to live in Melbourne and he is an actor and comic improviser. The film follows these two as they meet and talk about their lives. Their conversation ranges through the turns and tan...

HOTEL COOLGARDIE is a Western Australian observational documentary directed by Pete Gleeson. It follows the journey of Lina and Stephie, two Finnish back-packers in their late 20s. The women begin the film in somewhat desperate straits having been robbed in Bali. In Australia, they contact an employment agency and find work as bar maids at Coolgardie’s Denver City Hotel. They are replacing two Bri...

Tony Webster (Jim Broadbent) is a Londoner in his 60s. He runs a camera store that sells expensive second-hand Leicas, but this passes the time rather than keeping him fully occupied. His working day allows him time to have leisurely lunches and annoy his ex-wife Margaret (Harriet Walter) over the telephone. She is a QC and still has a busy life which includes their pregnant, single, 37-year-old d...

Baywatch the original television series, ran for from 1989 to 1999. It was, for a time, the most popular television show in the world. Let that sink in. It made star David Hasselhoff– who was already very famous for talking to an intelligent 1982 Pontiac Trans Am in the television series Knight Rider–as famous as a man could be. Hasselhoff (aka The Hoff) played Mitch Buchannon, the head of a dedic...