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In Hearts and Bones, acclaimed Australian actor Hugo Weaving plays Dan Fisher, a veteran war correspondent and photographer whose life is irrevocably changed when he meets a Sudanese refugee, Sebastia…
I’m in lockdown in Sydney’s Inner West as I write this and it has been over three years since I moved East for work, but I remained a regular patron of Mount Lawley’s revered pub, The Flying Scotsman,…
Well, if there was ever a time for movies about people locked in confined spaces slowly going nuts, it’s surely now. Or maybe it isn’t; escapist fantasy might be the order of the day when you literall…
Powered by JustWatch The lesson to be taken from the 1970 Australian film The Set, recently released for home audiences by Bounty Films, is that “important” is not the same as “good”. Widely rec…
Early on in the proceedings of Justin Kurzel’s iconoclastic take on Australia’s favourite outlaw legend, young Ned Kelly (Orlando Schwerdt) watches furtively as his mother, Ellen (Essie Davis doing a…
Katie and Grace’s Hour of Power January 23 -25. 2020 The Flight Path Theatre, Marrickville NSW Reviewing stand up comedy is a tricky bit of business, comedy as a whole being an extremely subjective…
There’s a style of comedy fairly common in Australian culture that really gets my back up, and it’s classist ocker comedy. You know the type: take a small Australian community – generally rural but o…
A few years on from their gleefully gross zombie flick Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead, sibling directing team Kiah and Tristan Roache-Turner bring us their second feature, Nekrotronic(also known as Nekrom…
So, I’ve been going on a bit of a tear lately, railing against Disney in general, Disney+ in particular, and their resolutely average flagship show, The Mandalorian, which has come to be, in my person…
Weird how the nerd nation have suddenly decided that box office and profitability are the most important metrics after all these years of living in the genre ghetto. I mean, we spent decades having o…
Australia only getting apprised of the brilliant Canadian comedy series Letterkenny a full seven seasons into its run is grounds for dissolving the Commonwealth. Right now, all six episodes of 2016’s…
If you want to trace its lineage all the way back you wind up, cinematically speaking at least, at 1932’s The Most Dangerous Game, but The Furies, the debut feature from writer and director Tony D’Aqu…