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Vee Shi’s family docudrama Time and Tide shows China’s Filial Piety Law as emotionally and financially complex
It is steadfast in its portrait of the family at their best and at their most exhausted and frayed. With the camera picking up not only the conversations and arguments, but also the physical dynamic of the family, Shi invites us into a world where the most casual acts are imbued with meaning.…
Arlo Cook & Ness Thornton the ten year journey to bringing Jebediah: Are We Ok? to life on screen
When I think of the sounds of Western Australia, the licks of Wide Open Road by the Triffids hits my mind, or maybe The Waifs yearning to be back in London, or occasionally it'll be a wistful memo…
The Noughts Report Part 2: 2002: From Adventures of Pluto Nash to Whale Rider
Welcome to the second instalment of the Noughts Report. A sequel to 90s All Over Me, each entry revisits a year in film from the 2000s, highlighting movies big and small and the careers and genres and…
Gregg Araki says let’s get physical in I Want Your Sex
I Want Your Sex is a comic masterpiece with Araki sparing no one. The contemporary art world is far from groundbreaking, Erika is “over the hill” by her late 30s, Apple is fragile to the point where she “just can’t” with most things. And Elliot, poor Elliot, is a puppy who still isn’t housetrained.…
Harvey Zielinski's Sweet Milk Lake instils a powerful trust with its audience
Jake has recently become the man he always was. His family has not caught up. That is the whole engine of Sweet Milk Lake, and Harvey Zielinski, who wrote it and directed it and plays both of its lead…
Stop! That! Train! double pass giveaway
With thanks to Maslow Entertainment, the Curb... has ten double passes to giveaway to the acclaimed new comedy from Adam Shankman (Hairspray): Stop! That! Train! To win, all you have to do is be a su…
Kiyoshi Kurosawa and power of the unseen
The legendary Japanese director brings the art of suggestion to jidaigeki with The Samurai and the Prisoner, a murder mystery set inside a besieged 16th-century castle. Kiyoshi Kurosawa has spent for…
Violence on the Ice: Isaac Elliott on the intensity of his para ice hockey doc Hard as Puck
Broken bones. Smashed egos. Bruised bodies. That's what players of the intense sport of para ice hockey can expect when they strap themselves into the sled and skate out onto the ice, sharp paddl…
The Leader is a powerful and disturbing dive into the mechanisms of cults
The Leader is observant and chilling; boasting one of Vera Farmiga’s most robust performances.…
“I’m much more interested in filming sex than in violence.” Lukas Dhont on making Coward
Coward screens at the Melbourne International Film Festival on 15, 20, 22 August 2026. Tickets are available here: CowardLukas Dhont’s stirring latest film – which won its leads a pair of Best Actor…
Covi and Frimmel’s docufiction keeps the Blues alive in Al Cook’s mighty heart
The Loneliest Man in Town is a muted masterwork. Touching, gentle, sometimes very funny, and within its specificity speaks of something universal.…