Adelaide Film Festival Review: Anora
Ani (Mikey Madison) works at The Headquarters in Manhattan, a large adult club with exotic dancers, private rooms, and huge bar tabs. Sean Baker follows Ani around what appears to be an average night…
Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Director Sally Aitken on Every Little Thing
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Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Director Silje Evensmo Jacobsen on A New Kind of Wilderness
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Adelaide Film Festival Interview: Director Ian Darling on The Pool
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Saturday Night is Poignant Pandemonium and an Exhilarating Jump Back in Time
“What kind of show is it?” Copper Hoffman’s NBC weekend producer asks Gabriel LaBelle’s Lorne Michaels of the television show that’s supposed to go live at 11.30pm on Saturday night, Oct 11, 1975. Lor…
Stan Original Film Nugget is Dead: A Christmas Story Launches November 21
PRESS RELEASE Stan, Australia’s unrivalled home of original productions, today announced that the Stan Original Film Nugget Is Dead: A Christmas Story, premieres Thursday November 21, only on Stan.…
Osher Günsberg: A World of Pain Premieres Thursday 21 November on SBS and SBS On Demand
PRESS RELEASE In SBS’s new authored documentary Osher Günsberg: A World of Pain, Executive Producer and Presenter Osher Günsberg spearheads a very personal investigation into chronic pain, one of the…
Conclave Showcases Ralph Fiennes’ Decades Long Mastery of His Craft
Edward Berger’s adaptation of Robert Harris’ Holy See mystery/thriller Conclave is a mature film functioning as a character study of its accidental investigator and the character of the contemporary C…
London Film Festival Review: Anora is Another Triumph for Sean Baker and a Moment of Arrival for Mikey Madison
Sean Baker’s Palme d’Or winning Anora is a crowd-pleasing triumph which continues his impassioned exploration of people living on the margins of American society, drawn from elements of classic cinema…
London Film Festival Review: Chain Reactions
A camera flashes to illuminate a skull dripping with putrid flesh. A young woman walks tentatively toward an unassuming but strangely malevolent house beneath a bright blue sky. A red wall adorned in…
NYFF Review: Blitz Marks Rare Misstep for Steve McQueen
Until now, Steve McQueen has never taken his audience for granted. With Blitz, however, he’s done just that, presuming the story of a mother and son searching for each other amidst the chaos of WWII t…
Like My Brother Co-Directors Sal Balharrie and Danielle MacLean on Tiwi Football in the AFLW
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