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This review contains spoilers for the end of Stray. It says a lot about BlueTwelve Studio’s enjoyably slight cat-and-android game Stray that it works best when you leave it alone. About a third of t…
There’s something genuinely refreshing at the core of Ol Parker’s Ticket to Paradise. No, it’s not the humdrum, routine script co-written by Parker and Daniel Pipski. It’s definitely not the familiar…
Within the space of almost two minutes, Jelena Sinik and Nicolette Axiak take viewers on an emotional journey of the impact of isolation in their powerful animated short film 101 Days of Lockdown, whi…
Sam Rogers rollercoaster ride of a web series Discontent is a short-form look at a group of millennials linked to one another through their phones and social media. With a rip-roaring level of comedy,…
Taryn Brumfitt’s 2016 documentary Embrace helped show women of the world the way to embrace a body-positive message, and with the utterly essential 2022 documentary Embrace Kids, she takes that same m…
I was transported to the magical world of Arendelle when I entered the grand Crown Theatre in Perth for the opening night of Frozen the Musical in a way that I was not prepared for. Already keenly fam…
When the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), one of the oldest continuing film festivals in the world, announced a mammoth celebration of Melbourne on Film for their 70th anniversary, the jo…
Filmmaker Andréas Giannopoulos’ short film Friends Of Mine won him the prestigious award of Best Direction in a Student Film at the 2021 Australian Directors Guild awards. Made as part of his Masters…
Filmmaker Granaz Moussavi’s latest film When Pomegranates Howl is a powerful ode to the great child-focused films of the 1980s, paying homage to the aesthetic of filmmakers like Abbas Kiarostami and A…
Sophie Hyde’s work as a filmmaker has gone from strength to strength with a body of work in short form documentaries and fiction films before moving into feature films with the highly acclaimed drama…
Sara Kern’s masterful family drama Moja Vesna is wrapped around an engaging and powerful central performance from newcomer Loti Kovačič. Lev Predan Kowarski’s cinematography embraces all the perfomers…
There are precious few minds who know as much about Australian cinema as Mark Hartley does. His pivotal and vital documentary Not Quite Hollywood inspired a new generation of filmmakers to pay homage…