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Director Natalie Bailey On Crafting the Warped Comedy That is Audrey

Director Natalie Bailey On Crafting the Warped Comedy That is Audrey

Andrew F Peirce Nov 4, 2024 16 min read
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The Aussie feature film comedy gets a welcome shake up in the form of Natalie Bailey and Lou Sanz’s pitch-black social satire Audrey. Jackie van Beek plays Ronnie Lipsick, washed up TV star turned mo…

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Adelaide Film Festival Critics Round Up Discussion

Adelaide Film Festival Critics Round Up Discussion

Andrew F Peirce Nov 4, 2024 1 min read
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Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. Welcome to a special Adelaide Film Festival round up discussi…

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Venom: The Last Dance is a Symbiotic Swan Song Far Too Serious for Its Own Good

Venom: The Last Dance is a Symbiotic Swan Song Far Too Serious for Its Own Good

Kahn Duncan Nov 4, 2024 4 min read
Films Reviews chiwetel ejiofor horror Juno Temple Marvel Review Superhero tom hardy Venom

Sony's attempts to create their own superhero cinematic universe continue to be a disappointment: essentially a universe defined by Spider-Man but completely lacking Spider-Man—it’s a lose lose si…

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Adelaide Film Festival Review: Blitz

Adelaide Film Festival Review: Blitz

Nadine Whitney Nov 3, 2024 5 min read
Films Reviews Drama Harris Dickinson Kathy Burke Review Saoirse Ronan Steve McQueen

Blitz, Steve McQueen’s story of World War II London is a functional drama illustrating the different ‘Londons’ suffering under the terrifying blitzkrieg bombing by the Luftwaffe. Blitz is not the leve…

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Small Things Like These Sees Cillian Murphy Deliver Another Soulful and Sincere Performance

Small Things Like These Sees Cillian Murphy Deliver Another Soulful and Sincere Performance

Nadine Whitney Nov 3, 2024 5 min read
Films Reviews Cillian Murphy Drama Patrick Ryan Peter Claffey Review Small Things Like These

Small Things Like These directed by Tim Mielants is the second Claire Keegan adaptation from novella to screen. The Irish author’s moving social realist tales lend themselves to subtle and intimate in…

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Venom: The Last Dance is a Flat, Messy, and Ugly Waste of Time

Venom: The Last Dance is a Flat, Messy, and Ugly Waste of Time

Christopher John Nov 1, 2024 4 min read
Films Reviews chiwetel ejiofor Juno Temple Kelly Marcel Review Sony Superhero tom hardy Venom

Regardless of the sliding quality across the films and shows, the Marvel Cinematic Universe from Marvel Studios is still an unparalleled success with the single Disney-led mainline movie in 2024, Dead…

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Adelaide Film Festival Review: The Order

Adelaide Film Festival Review: The Order

Andrew F Peirce Oct 31, 2024 5 min read
Films Reviews australian film Drama Jude Law Justin Kurzel nicholas hoult Review Tye Sheridan

Justin Kurzel is terrified about the state of the world. He’s terrified about the impact of violence from those who inflict it upon society, others, and themselves. He’s terrified of how easily the pa…

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AACTA Young Stars returns for its second year with ambassadors Chloe Hayden and Ngali Shaw

Press Releases Oct 31, 2024 4 min read
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PRESS RELEASE AACTA Young Stars: National Youth Casting Call returns for its second year, to discover the future stars of Australia’s acting industry with AACTA Young Stars ambassadors Chloe Hayden a…

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AIDC reveals First Look at 2025 program

Press Releases Oct 31, 2024 8 min read
Articles AIDC documentary

PRESS RELEASE The Southern Hemisphere’s premier gathering and marketplace for documentary and factual content – the Australian International Documentary Conference (AIDC) – has today announced the fi…

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Adelaide Film Festival Review: Went Up the Hill

Adelaide Film Festival Review: Went Up the Hill

Nadine Whitney Oct 31, 2024 4 min read
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The contemporary antipodean Gothic is an underexplored and underutilised genre. Australian and New Zealand filmmakers make excellent horror films, wonderful outback noirs, blistering inner city dramas…

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SBS celebrates 50 years with a bold, original and entertaining line-up of landmark Australian stories and international blockbusters

Press Releases Oct 31, 2024 5 min read
Articles australian film documentary sbs

PRESS RELEASE SBS has today revealed a bold and original content line-up with distinctive stories Australians won’t see anywhere else. In 2025, the network celebrates 50 years of connecting the count…

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Crocodile Dundee 4K Encore Cut to Release in 2025 with a Documentary on the Film

Press Releases Oct 31, 2024 3 min read
Articles australian film Crocodile Dundee

PRESS RELEASE When Crocodile Dundee released in Australian cinemas on April 24 in 1986, little did anyone know that it would not only become the highest-grossing Australian film of all time (still to…

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