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Aotearoa-New Zealand is on fire recently with brilliant genre films and debut feature director Sasha Rainbow’s body horror satire Grafted is no exception. Skimping neither on gore, giggles, and righte…
In her new film Dìdi, Chinese American actress and director Joan Chen is receiving the best reviews of her extraordinary career. In the below conversation with Andy Hazel, Joan discusses her work fro…
With the documentary Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger, David Hinton is the ostensible director of Martin Scorsese’s intimate and authoritative survey of cinematic titans who for we…
In the first part of this series, I highlighted the parallel histories of Shakespeare on screen and the Academy Awards, two institutions that emerged early twentieth century to legitimize the medium.…
Perth local actor Lee Tiger Halley has quickly made a name for himself after featuring in the acclaimed Netflix series Boy Swallows Universe, where he played the non-verbal character Gus Bell, and on…
PRESS RELEASE Screenwest and National Indigenous Television (NITV) are pleased to announce Big Backyard Quiz, a series full of games and quiz rounds exploring the people and history of Australia, has…
PRESS RELEASE The inaugural JAFF Market is partnering with Adelaide Film Festival to bring Australian projects in development to the project market platform, Jakarta Future Project (JFP) of JAFF Mark…
Ridley Scott’s 2000 Roman Empire swords and sandals epic Gladiator netted five Academy Awards including best picture and best actor for the then mostly untested Russell Crowe. For years Scott has been…
PRESS RELEASE Star power, big-budget spectacle and iconic Australian landscapes will vie with reflective social narrative from emerging talent to take home Australia’s most prestigious screen directi…
In a dazzling collision of fantasy and reality, Anora unfolds the whirlwind romance between an erotic dancer and the son of a Russian oligarch, crafting a hilariously subversive adventure that is as p…
Karim Aïnouz’s adaptation of Elizabeth Freemantle’s novel about Katherine Parr The Queen’s Gambit begins with an unattributed quote: “History tells us a few things. Largely about men and war. For the…
Natalie Bailey’s black comedy Audrey knows the audience will hate almost every character in the film and yet relies on them getting behind their hideous behaviour and all its pettiness for the guilty…