Author Sophie Butcher

Gillian - writer, director and protagonist of I Blame Society - tells the audience pretty much everything they need to know about her in the first scene of the film, when she claims that being told she’d...

Fear is a powerful thing. In Amy Seimetz’s weird, warped She Dies Tomorrow, it’s so powerful that it becomes contagious.  It opens with a quiet, experimental buildup. Amy (Kate Lyn Sheil) is moping...

A love triangle between a woman searching for "The One" and two men who are polar opposites may be something we’ve seen many times before, but a grounded, melancholic atmosphere and brilliantly vulnerable...

Caravan parks always make for a particularly bleak, particularly British setting. In Claire Oakley’s mysterious Make Up, the uniform white boxes stand starkly against the backdrop of grassy mounds and...

As Indian popstar and activist Sona Mohapatra campaigns against the lack of female artists in her country’s music industry, she receives a comment from a troll that claims the reason for this imbalance is...

Though just 15 minutes long, A Cat Is Always Female paints an evocative portrait of Croatian artist and sculptor Marija Ujevic Galetovic - though she prefers to call herself a “manual labourer”. Directed...

On one rainy night, a Chilean cabbie named Luz (Luana Velis) walks into a police station. At the same time, across town, psychotherapist, Dr Rossini (Jan Bluthardt), is having a drink with Nora (Julia...

In this new series of articles, our writers are watching classic films for the first time. This time we have Sophie catching up on the 1989 romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally. Driving to New York...

One of the most well-known, true facts about notorious Australian outlaw Ned Kelly is that he was eventually captured by police during a shootout where he was wearing bulletproof armour. Justin Kurzel’s...