'Last ride' Glendyn Ivin @ the cinemas

This should have been a silent film: the characters' words don't add much to what already is so beautifully shown. It's the landscape, the moments between, that narrate the story, this allegory of a father and a son, bliss and murder included.

'Red Cliff' John Woo @ Sydney Film Festival

The sun eclipsed by the arrows of the men from Mars, fighting for their right to own the face that launched a thousand ships, the face of the woman from Venus.

'The September Issue' R.J. Cutler @ Sydney Film Festival

A battle of familiar sorts, Anna and Grace, in the galactic ventures of a different spaceship, familiar stories of bad and good, idealism and capitalism, father and daughter, past and present, and animated sidekicks. The pages of the biggest magazine issue ever are filled not with beauty or advertising, but with snapshots of the same universe that is everyone, really.

'Paper soldier' Aleksei German MI @ Syndey Film Festival

I will read you a poem about words and life and fate, the first human in space, and communism and capitalism, and, did I mention, fate, and camels and bicycles and dogs, and the most beautiful woman on earth, and, yes, Russia,'can't feel my ears' cold Russia. I will read you a poem about words and life and...

'Three monkeys' Nuri Bilge Ceylan @ Sydney Film Festival

A window that looks out to the sea, drops of blood on the floor, a curtain blown up by the breeze... This is a show of little paintings, and while there's lots to see, little can be said of their content, except, of course, if you happen to be there.

'(500) Days of Summer' Marc Webb @ Sydney Film Festival

This latest movicine identifies broken blood vessels somewhere in the stomach, where 'love' fought its battle over someone that just didn't feel the same way about you, and slowly nurtures them back for reuse. It feels good, but please use responsibly.

'Overlord' Stuart Cooper @ Sydney Film Festival

Death writes a poem, calls it 'War',and sends it to life. Life reads it, sheds a tear and moves on.