Primate delivers with rabid chimp savagery and viscous visceral viciousness
Roberts and co-scribe Ernest Riera haven’t gone in for cohesive and logical narrative, they’ve gone for rabid chimp savagery and viscous visceral viciousness.…
Roberts and co-scribe Ernest Riera haven’t gone in for cohesive and logical narrative, they’ve gone for rabid chimp savagery and viscous visceral viciousness.…
A new Australian one-hour documentary The Message of the Lyrebird showcases the mimicry abilities of lyrebirds, including the possible impact of human encroachment on their songs.…
In the following interviews, Nadine Whitney talks to director Óliver Laxe about the landscape and use of music in the film, while in the second interview, Andrew F Peirce talks to composer Kanding Ray about building that sonic profile for the film.…
Troy Cassar-Daley one of Australia’s finest country music songwriters and musicians. He’s a familiar face and voice across the nation, with supporters getting to know him through his music and lyrics.…
The Secret Agent is the latest film by award-winning Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho. Awarded three major Cannes prizes, this explosive political thriller races through Brazil’s 1977 Carnival…
Set against the backdrop of a dystopian future where India is celebrating 100 years since independence in 1947, Indian National Award-winning filmmaker Pradip Kurbah’s drama Ha Lyngkha Bneng (The Elysian Field, 2025) probes what kind of tomorrow that will be.…
How should we view our relationship with Artificial Intelligence (AI)? What if AI was like a child, and part of how we train AI algorithms relied on the basics of good parenting? This is the fundamental moral question at the centre of Aranya Sahay’s debut feature, Humans in the Loop.…
Nicholas Clifford’s feature debut film One More Shot is a delightfully fun Australian dramedy that follows Minnie (a charming Emily Browning) as she discovers that the bottle of tequila she’s brought…
There Is No Antimemetics Division, a science fiction horror novel written by Sam Hughes (aka qntm) and published on November 11 2025, was spun off from an online fiction community but has literary and conceptual roots stretching back over a century.…
In director Tribeny Rai’s Chhora Jastai (Shape of Momo, 2025), one of the most assured debut features to come out of India recently, the coming-of-age story meets the sensibilities of autofiction and the personal becomes universal.…
Andrew Dominik has long occupied an unusual position in Australian cinema. After his breakthrough with Chopper in 2000, Dominik’s career has been forged almost entirely in the glare of American myth.…
From stunning shorts to shocking horrors, these are Nadine Whitney's favourite Australian films of 2025 in no order as order is tyranny. Honourable Mentions: Dangerous Animals, Salt Along the Ton…