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Prime Video Announces New Series, Top End Bub, Follow Up to Hit Australian Film Top End Wedding

Press Releases Apr 4, 2024 3 min read
Articles Top End Wedding

PRESS RELEASE Prime Video, Goalpost Pictures, ZDF Studios, Screen Australia, Screen Territory, and South Australian Film Corporation today announced that new romantic comedy series, Top End Bub, will…

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Goodbye Julia Director Mohamed Kordofani Talks About the Possibility of Change and Hope in This Interview

Goodbye Julia Director Mohamed Kordofani Talks About the Possibility of Change and Hope in This Interview

Nadine Whitney Apr 1, 2024 8 min read
Interviews Articles Drama Goodbye Julia Interview Mohamed Kordofani

Goodbye Julia by Mohamed Kordofani is an impassioned plea for understanding and inclusion which utilises the story of Mona (Eiman Yousif) and Julia (Siran Riak) and their long relationship built out o…

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Matteo Garrone's Io Capitano is an Astonishing and Urgent Cry for Compassion and Action

Matteo Garrone's Io Capitano is an Astonishing and Urgent Cry for Compassion and Action

Nadine Whitney Mar 28, 2024 7 min read
Films Reviews Academy Awards Drama Issaka Sawadogo Matteo Garrone Moustapha Fall Review Seydou Sarr

Italian director Matteo Garrone has cycled through many genres to tell Italian stories. Whether it be a version of Pinocchio, a bleak crime drama, Gomorra, or an anthology based on Italian folk and fa…

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Kung Fu Panda 4 Sees the Series Skew Towards a Lighter Tone for the Better

Kung Fu Panda 4 Sees the Series Skew Towards a Lighter Tone for the Better

Branden Zavaleta Mar 27, 2024 3 min read
Films Reviews Animation Jack Black kung fu panda Review Viola Davis

In the first three Kung Fu Panda movies, titular panda Po travelled to the spirit world, conquered the most fearsome foes, and became the hero of the Valley of Peace. Knowing all that, you’d think tha…

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memory film: Jeni Thornley’s Archive of Self and Australian Cinema

memory film: Jeni Thornley’s Archive of Self and Australian Cinema

Nadine Whitney Mar 27, 2024 5 min read
Interviews AIDC australian cinema australian film documentary Interview Jeni Thornley memory film

Jeni Thornley’s AFCA nominated documentary recently played in Melbourne at the Melbourne Women in Film Festival. To see who Jeni Thornley is and what she has done for independent and feminist Australi…

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In All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Laura Poitras Lets Nan Goldin Shine in All Her Glory

In All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Laura Poitras Lets Nan Goldin Shine in All Her Glory

Nadine Whitney Mar 27, 2024 7 min read
Films Reviews documentary Laura Poitros Review

Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) is a documentarian who knows how to let her subjects speak. Rarely do you hear Poitras’ own voice in one of her films; she knows where to point the camera, and to allow peo…

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National Theatre Live: Vanya is an Exemplary Showcase for Andrew Scott’s Talent

National Theatre Live: Vanya is an Exemplary Showcase for Andrew Scott’s Talent

Kahn Duncan Mar 24, 2024 3 min read
Films Reviews Drama National Theatre Live Review Sam Yates Uncle Vanya

National Theatre Live: Vanya is an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's renowned play Uncle Vanya. Chekhov's work delves into central concerns of unrequited love, existential dilemmas, inheritance st…

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The Road to Patagonia Director Matty Hannon Talks About Living with the Land in This Interview

The Road to Patagonia Director Matty Hannon Talks About Living with the Land in This Interview

Andrew F Peirce Mar 18, 2024 2 min read
Interviews Podcasts australian film documentary Interview The Road to Patagonia

Subscribe to The Curb podcast via RSS feed, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, iHeart Radio or Google Podcasts. Download the episode directly here. As a young man, Matty Hannon explored the world, sinking root…

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Love Lies Bleeding is an Extremely Entertaining Orgy of Violence

Love Lies Bleeding is an Extremely Entertaining Orgy of Violence

Harris Dang Mar 18, 2024 5 min read
Films Reviews Dave Franco Kristen Stewart Review Rose Glass Weronika Tofilska wrestling

Set in the late ‘80s, Love Lies Bleeding tells the story of two burdened women who fall in love at first sight. Lou (Kristen Stewart) is a gym manager who lives a reclusive life as she struggles to ma…

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Love Lies Bleeding: Rose Glass and the Monstrous Queer Feminine

Love Lies Bleeding: Rose Glass and the Monstrous Queer Feminine

Nadine Whitney Mar 17, 2024 5 min read
Films Reviews Dave Franco Drama Ed Harris Kristen Stewart Review Rose Glass Weronika Tofilska wrestling

To a new world of gods and monsters! Septimus Pretorius (The Bride of Frankenstein) There are many monsters in Rose Glass’ sophomore feature Love Lies Bleeding. The genre hybrid film positions almos…

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Blumhouse’s Imaginary Spooky Teddy Bear Flick is Barely a Horror Film

Blumhouse’s Imaginary Spooky Teddy Bear Flick is Barely a Horror Film

Kahn Duncan Mar 11, 2024 2 min read
Films Reviews DeWanda Wise Greg Erb horror Imaginary Jason Oremland Pyper Braun Review Taegen Burns

Blumhouse Productions has long prided itself on delivering independent productions on a tight budget. Their latest entry, Imaginary,attempts to put a spooky twist on the friend you imagined growing up…

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Adam Sandler's Spaceman is a Velvet Glove Delivering an Emotional Gut Punch

Adam Sandler's Spaceman is a Velvet Glove Delivering an Emotional Gut Punch

Nadine Whitney Mar 5, 2024 4 min read
Films Reviews Netflix Paul Dano Review Spaceman

If Tarkovsky’s Solaris was a cinematic contretemps to Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, then Spaceman can be seen as Johan Renck’s riposte to Solaris. Both Solaris and Spaceman (from the novel ‘The Spa…

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