Originally Posted by Erik Anderson

It seems that the only things Australia exports more than a cheap Shiraz are quirky musical comedies. In Bran Nue Dae, we have a coming of age story, a romance, a road movie, a comment on the Christian conversion of Aborigines and a musical. While the film never really succeeds at any of these individually, it strangely works as a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. It’s not a great movie, it’s just affable and, at a scant 88 minutes, hard to dislike.

Originally Posted by Variety

A record of arguably the longest, most publicly prominent piece of performance art ever, "I'm Still Here" finally addresses the question of whether Joaquin Phoenix's decision to give up acting to pursue a hip-hop career was on the level or a setup. The answer seems to be: a bit of both. Result is an utterly fascinating experiment that apparently blends real and faked material to examine notions of celebrity, mental stability and friendship. Whatever auds may think of Phoenix, there's no doubting his chutzpah, though biz will depend on the level of voyeuristic interest in his and co-helmer Casey Affleck's strange, postmodern psychodrama.