Film and culture. Not content.
Amy Goodman is one of the founding minds behind the vital independent media organisation Democracy Now! Over decades, Democracy Now! has covered civil unrest in places like East Timor, protests across…
A venue where we experience art can be transformed by the art that is presented there. That's what will happen with the upcoming horror film screenings at the Sydney Opera House from 27 October to…
Wildwood is “99.9 per cent handmade,” because “stuff that we buy stands out” on camera. The sets, puppets, costumes and props are built in the studio’s own workshops by hundreds of artists, many of them local.…
Jared himself had unwittingly become a primary subject of Aftermath with his eyes being cleared of the scales of mis/disinformation.…
Natalia Laska's tender and gentle, yet deeply humorous and charming, documentary The Piano Tuner follows her partner, Martin Tucker as he traipses across Australia, from Hobart to Darwin, tuning p…
One of the key questions in Kuba Dorabialski's Agata the Writer is who gets to tell the stories of other people’s pain?…
Right. Ahead of reading this piece, you should know that I have not reached out to the AFI/AACTA[1] for a comment as each time I have, I have received no response. Heading into the 17th AACTA Awards…
This article was previously published in October 2022. It hasn't been updated to include such horrifying films as Talk to Me, Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism, Bring Her Back or Penny Lane is Dead,…
Welcome to the seventh instalment of the Noughts Report. Each entry revisits a year in film from the 2000s, highlighting movies big and small and the careers and genres and trends that ignited or flam…
One of the most glaring errors of The Social Reckoning is the title itself. What reckoning? Mark Zuckerberg has managed to dodge any true repercussions for turning Facebook into a platform that encourages engagement with the far right and other harmful groups.…
The Illustrated Family Doctor almost ended Kriv Stenders' career before it got started. A surreal comedy about white-collar office life with subtle body-horror elements. Doctor was unusual in Aust…