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The Short film that didn’t quit! Written and directed by emerging filmmaker and actor Finn Middleton, Acid Amorè is a short comedy that explores the anxieties of love, after a boy receives a potentia…
Sydney’s most unremarkable man has a story to tell. He just doesn’t know it yet. A man whose life has looked like failure after failure, always offset by optimism. Unremarkable is the next chapter in…
Who would have guessed that the first blockbuster hit of 2026, and Amazon MGM’s biggest debut yet, would be a story about a man and a rock-shaped alien? Despite remaining culturally dominant through t…
Multi-hyphenate talent Rebel Wilson has added director to her list of skills with the bright new musical The Deb. Centring on Maeve (Charlotte MacInnes) a wealthy Sydney base teen who is sent to a sma…
Co-directors Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett have stayed busy since Ready or Not, helming both Scream V and Scream VI, as well as the vampire comedy Abigail. It’s been seven years since Samara…
Forbidden Fruits feels like someone took the DNA of Mean Girls, filtered it through a Free People catalogue, added a heavy dose of witchcraft, and then let it spiral into full-on slasher chaos. It’s s…
West Aussie filmmaker Miley Tunnecliffe makes the shift from shorts to features with her debut feature length film Proclivitas. This familial horror-drama film features Clare (an impressive grou…
Miley Tunnecliffe’s debut feature Proclivitas opens with a quote (in Latin then English) by Cicero which is essentially the case of what is good is “inclination” and the case of what is evil is “procl…
Middle school exists in a strange in-between world. You are no longer a child, but adulthood is still miles away. Everything feels heightened: friendships, embarrassment, curiosity, desire. Your body…
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When I was quite young a teacher related the story of the practice in some Aboriginal groups known as the “Pointed bone also known as “Kurdaitcha”. The accused person would have a bone pointed at them…
Four years after winning the Palme d’Or for Titane, French filmmaker Julia Ducournau returned to the Cannes Film Festival with Alpha, a haunting and unexpectedly tender meditation on grief, generation…