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Last year I interviewed Miranda Taspsell before going on to catch the Top End Wedding for a second time at the Adelaide Film Festival. The film was great, but one performance in particular stuck with…
In early 2020, when Australia was in the midst of some of the most horrific fires it has ever seen, the ABC’s Q&A, doing what Q&A does, took advantage of the situation and lined up a panel of…
Powered by JustWatch What Goes Around is a very low budget slasher film that succeeds where many fail – having a decent story. It doesn’t rely on some weak supernatural curse or some cataclysmic…
Powered by JustWatch The first words out of my partners mouth when she realised that there were only four episodes of Grace Rouray’s acerbic and hilarious 600 Bottles of Wine series, were along…
Powered by JustWatch Respect the white man, you suck up to him Ankur Vikal So goes a line from actor Ankur Vikal midway through Romantic Road, one that carries as much weight and importance as…
In Armadale, a community of single dads are banding together to break the cycle of negative parenting, in heart-wrenching WA documentary, The Fathering Project, set to premiere on Compass on ABC1 at 6…
If you tune into film press, you’ll find article after article covering the continued delays of major Hollywood films, cancellations of film festivals, and alarm about the future of feature filmmaking…
What can an audience expect from a documentary about an art project that began with two old mates, one a painter and the other an eccentric collector, discussing what it would be like to paint a rare…
With the documentary Forman vs. Forman, writer and director Helena Treštikova has created an intimate and philosophical portrait of the multi award winning Czech/American director Milos Forman. Buildi…
Production on romantic feature film This Little Love of Mine has kicked off this week in Cairns, Far North Queensland. The filmsees Australian actors Saskia Hampele (The Heights) and Liam McIntyre (Sp…
Ocean to Sky is a feature length documentary that recounts the experiences of New Zealand’s Edmund Hillary and his friends as they embark on an expedition up the entire length of India’s sacred river…
Way back when, there was a book store in North Perth that, upon entry, felt like collapsing into a world of paper, dust, and leather. Books Etc contained shelves upon shelves of books, each one buckli…