Geek of Oz

Episode 49! Stu and Billy are back at the flicks having attended the the second week of the Sydney Film Festival , and also managing to watch Transformers: The Last Knight . Transformers: The Last Knight is the 5th installement of the live-action Transformers film series. The films sees Humans are at war with the Transformers, and Optimus Prime nowhere to be found after the events of the previous film. The key to saving the future lies buried in the secrets of the past and the hidden history of Transformers on Earth. Now, it's up to the unlikely alliance of Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg), Bumblebee, an English lord (Anthony Hopkins) and an Oxford professor (Laura Haddock) to save the world. Also in this weeks episode we also recap the films we've seen from the second and final week of the Sydney Film Festival. These include: Mifune: The Last Samurai, Graduation, Barbecue, Abacus: Small Enough to Jail, On Body and Soul, Kedi, A Fantastic Woman, Call Me By...

It's that time of year. Where Sydney cinephiles maddeningly scratch their heads trying to fit as many movies into a day as possible, and go slightly mad trying. That's right, it's Sydney Film Festival time! The Festival runs from the 7th till the 18th of June and the full list of movies can be found here:  http://www.sff.org.au/ To help you out Billy and Stu have put a list together of the 20 films they are keen to see over the festival. 1. The Beguiled by Sofia Coppola Set during the American Civil War, the film follows a young girl who decides to take an injured soldier into her house after finding him. Once in the house, the dynamic of the house and it's all female residents changes as sexual rivalry and jealousy interjects.The film stars Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning, Kirsten Dunst, and Colin Farrell. 2. 78/52 by Alexandre O. Philippe An unprecedented look at the iconic shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (1960), the ...