Nadine Whitney's Best Australian Films of 2025 List
From stunning shorts to shocking horrors, these are Nadine Whitney's favourite Australian films of 2025 in no order as order is tyranny. Honourable Mentions: Dangerous Animals, Salt Along the Ton…
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James L. Brooks and Emma Mackey on hopefulness and changing the world in Ella McCay
James L. Brooks isn’t only responsible for bringing The Simpsons to television screens for decades, he’s also the co-creator of Taxi and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. For the big screen he’s the award-wi…
Diamonds are Forever: Reflecting on Reflection in a Dead Diamond with Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani are French writers and directors based in Belgium. They have made four films together: Amer, The Strange Colour of Your Body’s Tears, Let the Corpses Tan, and now the v…
Maciej J. Drygas' Trains (Pociagi) is a haunting human experience
Although the legend of mass panic in screenings of The Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat Station, the 50-second film by the Lumière brothers which first screened in 1895 is untrue, it is true that cinem…
A Little Life: Joel Edgerton on Train Dreams
Train Dreams directed by Clint Bentley and adapted from Denis Johnson’s novella by Bentley and Greg Kwedar (Sing Sing) is an immense film about a small and unnoticed life. Robert Granier (Joel Edgerto…
Mary Bronstein on falling down in If I Had Legs I’d Kick You
If I Had Legs I’d Kick You is Mary Bronstein’s portrait of a woman pushed beyond her ability to cope after a ceiling leak means that she and her daughter need to move out of their apartment. It’s tens…
Ronan Day-Lewis' cinematic composition isn't enough to save the tonally clumsy Anemone
There’s no doubting Ronan Day-Lewis has an eye for cinematic composition. His debut film Anemone starring his father Daniel Day-Lewis, with Sean Bean, Samantha Morton, and Sean Bottomley looks strikin…
Director Pauline Clague unpacks a circus family's hidden legacy with The Colleano Heart
A brilliant circus family’s hidden legacy unfolds as descendants reunite across continents, revealing their Australian Aboriginal ancestry, global stardom, and the extraordinary secrets they kep…
In this interview, Sophie Somerville invites you to become Fwends with her delightful feature film debut
Sophie Somerville is an Australian emerging filmmaker whose short films Linda 4 Eva and Peeps made waves at film festivals around the world. Now with her feature film debut Fwends, winner of the Berli…
Maggie Miles & Trisha Morton-Thomas on honouring the remarkable homecoming of a legend with Journey Home, David Gulpilil
In this podcast, Nadine Whitney speaks with documentarians Maggie Miles & Trisha Morton-Thomas about the extraordinary documentary Journey Home, David Gulpilil. Journey Home, David Gulpilil is a…
Inside A House of Dynamite: Kathryn Bigelow and her cast on the sobering reality of this explosive thriller
Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite tracks the response to an unattributed nuclear warhead that is destined to land on an American city. The film moves in three terrifying segments replaying the sam…
MonsterFest: Good Boy is Best in Show of Doggy Horror
Many of us have heard stories of domestic animals and their uncanny perceptions. The cat in a nursing home or hospice who sits on the bed of the next patient to pass away. The story of dogs knowing wh…