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Very loosely based on the short story by Oscar Wilde of the same name, Kim Burdon and Robert Chandler’s The Canterville Ghost is a slight adaptation of what was a simultaneously a satire on American m…
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Released by Netflix in 2021, Don’t Look Up was extremely popular in part because of its roster of big-name stars. Both Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence returned to the silver screen after exten…
Film distributor A24’s brand identity has crystallised into surreal, stylish dramas with a touch of misery. Their latest release, Dream Scenario, is exactly that. So in that sense, the film is almost…
Before we dig into 2023, let’s take a short jump back to October 2021. Stage 1 of the Australian Feature Film Summit (AFFS) was taking place online, providing producers, distributors, exhibitors, and…
For Yankunytjatjara artist Derik Lynch, when he dances for his family and friends in the spotlights of car in a stunning gold dress in Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dipped in Black), echoing the power and stre…
The Iron Claw releases in Australian cinemas on 18 January 2024. The qualification “Inspired by a True Story,” does a lot of heavy lifting in Sean Durkin’s American tragedy The Iron Claw a film based…
Dr. Seuss wasn't one for sequels. Aside from writing a new adventure for a couple of his iconic creations, the famed children's author refrained from returning to old wells for his books. Howe…
“The life we enjoy is very much worth the sacrifice.” – Rudolf Höss Hannah Arendt famously coined the term “The banality of evil” when ruminating on the trial of Adolf Eichmann. Eichmann, who had fam…
PRESS RELEASE Leading Australian media art collective pvi has been announced as Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts (PICA)’s inaugural long-term company in residence (2024-2026), coinciding with the…
Cord Jefferson’s American Fiction is an adaptation of Erasure a postmodern literary satire written in 2001 by Percival Everett. Over twenty years later and the issues Everett raised about the commodif…
“Love will make you crazy, Eileen. You’ll probably never understand that.” Jim Dunlop Eileen Dunlop (Thomasin McKenzie) lives in small town 1960s Massachusetts. She’s twenty-four-years-old. She has n…