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Animals is Sophie Hyde’s film adaption of Emma Jane Unsworth’s novel of the same name. A coming of age film (not the typical teen age range) that’ll hit frighteningly close to home for anyone experien…
Having premiered at Adelaide Film Festival in 2018, Emu Runner, helmed by Imogen Thomas in her feature film debut, is a story about how a mother’s death affects an Aboriginal family living in an isola…
Directed and co-written by James Gray, Ad Astra stars Brad Pitt as Major Roy McBride, an astronaut dedicated to his job and willing to complete missions by any means necessary. When his lost father (T…
Coming hot on the heels of Breath and Jasper Jones, and getting the jump on Dirt Music, The Naked Wanderer is the latest West Australian tourism ad campaign masquerading as a film. But, unlike Breath…
Ok, this news should alarm any physical media collectors in Australia and the rest of the world: The NFSA (National Film and Sound Archive) of Australia is moving to digital only availability of all…
After more than five decades in the music industry, the pioneering ‘Queen of Rock N Roll’ Suzi Quatro is ready to re-claim her crown in the new documentary SUZI Q – the definitive, unexpurgated story…
I don’t usually rewatch films frequently. I tend to ‘one and done’ a film, enjoying it for what it is and moving on to the next on the never ending pile. But, by choice and circumstance, I’ve experien…
Back in 2015 I bought my 4x4 Holden Colorado, hit the road and trekked across the Nullarbor. With little 4x4 experience and zero recovery gear, I did a few off-road tracks but took a lot of caution. A…
Given the slew of movies focusing on stranded astronauts with parent issues, you’d be forgiven for thinking that people only go into space to avoid their families. As fascinated as filmmakers are by…
Written and directed by Lulu Wang, The Farewell stars Awkwafina as Billi, a young woman from New York with Chinese heritage who, after learning her grandmother Nai Nai (Zhao Shuzhen) has lung cancer,…
John Rambo is as American as apple pie. Actually, maybe that’s too sweet a comparison. John Rambo is as American as a border wall. Yeah, that feels right. In the catalogue of creations that litter t…
Buried somewhere between Gangnam Style and dabbing in the pop-culture graveyard, exploitative teenage-comedies rife with casual homophobia, misogyny, and objectification have no place in the 2019 zeit…