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PRESS RELEASE The best of Australian cinema is available to stream free now on SBS On Demand, with over 50 titles to explore. SBS World Movies will also air a selection of homegrown classics in Homeg…
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Lake Michigan Monster in 2018 by Mike Cheslik and Ryland Brickson Cole Tews was a lo-fi indie comedy homage to all things nautical and creature features. Reuniting once again for Hundreds of Beavers t…
The Sámi people have long lived in the Sápmi region, which includes the northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and parts of Russia. Until recently, they have farmed reindeer, and fished for their…
This review contains discussion of school shootings, suicide, abuse, and other traumatic events. The opening of Angie Vinchito’s devastating documentary Manifesto presents white clouds rolling across…
Who was J. Robert Oppenheimer? According to the history books he was either a saviour or a devil, and of course with his involvement in the development of the Atomic bomb he was certainly the embodime…
When the news that Greta Gerwig was going to co-write and direct a movie based on Barbie the collective response appeared to be a baffled “What?” (Whereas the news that Margot Robbie would be playing…
We are all imperfect beings. We all have our negative peccadillos, our bad days, our petty resentments, our self-doubt, our pretentions. In Randall Park’s Shortcomings based on Adrian Tomie’s graphic…
To an extent every biopic is a work of imaginative fiction. What the director and writer choose to include and exclude, the primary focus on the subject, the details that are exaggerated or in part fa…
The set-up is familiar; a group of teens start messing around with an occult object and bad things begin to happen. Despite this being the premise of dozens of possession horror films, Danny and Micha…
How do you satirise a period of history where “truth” or the appearance of it was so close to satire that they were often indistinguishable? Soda Jerk decided the best way was to take the immediate pr…
Do you ever feel you are sometimes the supporting character in another person’s story? The feeling where your sole purpose is to exist in the orbit of someone other than yourself? Director Sophie Linn…