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Not since the slap-in-the-face arrival of Justin Kurzel with Snowtown has there been an Australian filmmaker who has presented violence on film so viscerally like Thomas M. Wright. I say this knowing…
The documentary How to Thrive follows positive psychotherapist Marie McLeod as she supports seven people on a journey to find happiness. At first, the notion of positive psychotherapy suggests trying…
2022 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark protest documentary Ningla-A’Na, Italian-born Alessandro Cavadini’s film about the early days of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra and the fig…
Jennifer Ross’s documentary Age of Rage – The Australian Punk Revolution embraces the lifestyle of punk and informs much of the history of punk in Australia. Featuring a huge array of interviews from…
As a West Aussie, it was a little bit bizarre peering over the border during the height of the pandemic and hearing the calamity of praise being heaped upon the then NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian. As…
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…