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Hugo Weaving Speaks From the Heart on Hearts and Bones

June 4, 2020

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, Sebastian Ahmed (...

Piper Doon – the Scotsman is Nae More

Travis Johnson

April 6, 2020

Unity

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, if “regu...

The Platform Review – The Best Heavy Metal Movie Ever Made

Travis Johnson

April 2, 2020

Reviews

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 literally can’t (...

The Set Review – Important, Invaluable, but Not Good

Travis Johnson

March 18, 2020

Reviews

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...

True History of the Kelly Gang Review – The War Between Ned Kelly the Man and Ned Kelly the Idea Writ Large

Travis Johnson

January 23, 2020

Reviews

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 feral rif...

Hour Of Power – With Katie Lees And Grace Rouvray Review

Travis Johnson

January 21, 2020

Reviews

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 ar...

Two Heads Creek Review – Classist Ocker Comedy Fails to Impress

Travis Johnson

January 6, 2020

Reviews

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 occasio...

Nekrotronic Review – Ozploitation Ghostbusters Has Rough Edges but Has a Fierce Desire to Entertain

Travis Johnson

January 6, 2020

Reviews

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 Nekromancer in...

The Mandalorian and Mousehouse Monoculture: Reconciling with a Complete Pop Culture Diet

Travis Johnson

November 27, 2019

Culture

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 personal mythol...

Mainstream Nerd Culture and the Dilemma of Success

Travis Johnson

October 28, 2019

Culture

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 our cult...

Perth's Australian Revelations 2020 Season Launches with a Film That's Out of This World

Kung Fu Classic goes Noongar-style for Lotterywest Films: Bruce Lee Kick-Starts Perth Festival Season

HALO Films Has Launched – An Exciting West Australian Distribution Company

Mystic Pines Selected to Make World Premiere at Brisbane International Film Festival 2020

Poppy’s I Disagree and More – An Artist Coming for the Jugular of Capitalism

Super Boys, Wonderful Toys, and Elfman Noise: The Superhero Movie Class of 1989-1992

Shudder is Officially Here, and We’ve Got the Aussie Horror Films You Must See

The Quokka - Like You've Never Seen it Before! in the Documentary Rottnest Island: Kingdom of the Quokka

Grassroots Initiative to Tackle Loneliness and Help Local Businesses this Victorian Christmas

International Art Exhibition Come Silent Auction Gives Light to Refugees Affected by COVID-19

Australian Cinema in ISO Zoom Panel

Piper Doon – the Scotsman is Nae More

Revelation Film Festival WA Film Callout

Mojo’s Bar is Closed but With Your Help They Can Reopen When the Time is Right

Devil's Ballast Book Review - a Thrilling Tale of the Pirate Life of Anne Bonny by Meg Caddy

Somewhere in Time Review – The Special Christopher Reeve Film at 40

On the Rocks Review – An Outdated and Noxious Ode to Privilege

Dirt Music Review – The Beauty of Western Australia Embraces the Land of the Lost Men

This is Paris Review – The Rebranding of a Celebrity Character

Viva the Underdogs Review – Parkway Drive Conquer the World in this Faithful Fan Service Flick

The New Mutants Review – Years Late, and Feels It

Owen Beck & John McMullan Interview - Mister Wick, The Black List, Aussie Screenwriting and the Creative Itch

Roger Ward Interview – Aussie Film Icon from Turkey Shoot, The Faceless Man, Mad Max and More

The Pact Director Peter Blackburn on Theatre, Creativity in Lockdown, and Support

A Chat with Nathan Phillips – Blood Vessel, Acting in Australia, and Living with Yowies

The Pact: Closer Than You Think – Rose Flanagan Talks About the Phoenix-Like Webseries in the Midst of Covid

The Plastic House: Allison Chhorn’s Documentary is a Simple, Beautiful, Effective Ode to Change

Nine Questions with Le Miroir Director Leila Murton Poole – Luck, Creativity, and the Power of Collaboration

Hugo Weaving Speaks From the Heart on Hearts and Bones

Piper Doon – the Scotsman is Nae More

The Platform Review – The Best Heavy Metal Movie Ever Made

The Set Review – Important, Invaluable, but Not Good

True History of the Kelly Gang Review – The War Between Ned Kelly the Man and Ned Kelly the Idea Writ Large

Hour Of Power – With Katie Lees And Grace Rouvray Review

Two Heads Creek Review – Classist Ocker Comedy Fails to Impress

Nekrotronic Review – Ozploitation Ghostbusters Has Rough Edges but Has a Fierce Desire to Entertain

The Mandalorian and Mousehouse Monoculture: Reconciling with a Complete Pop Culture Diet

Mainstream Nerd Culture and the Dilemma of Success

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