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As witnessed in August 2023 where 11.15 million Australian-based viewers tuned in to watch the Matildas compete in the FIFA Women’s World Cup, little unites the country more than a global sporting eve…
Marketing people know what’s up when they pitched Strays as coming from the studio that brought you Ted and Cocaine Bear instead of the director of the gloriously side-splitting Barb and Star Go to Vi…
There’ve been a lot of dog movies– a sad one about a Labrador retriever, a scary one with a St Bernard, a trilogy of Beverly Hills chihuahuas, and endless animated ones – but Strays is the first adult…
“This is the only thing that is real,” says Rebecca (Margaret Qualley) to Hal (Christopher Abbott) in Zachary Wigon’s psychosexual thriller and melodrama, Sanctuary. There is a world outside our two p…
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Jeni Thornley is a documentarian whose worked has spanned decades, from the 1978 film Maidens, to 1983’s For Love or Money: a history of women and work in Australia, to To the Other Shore in 1996 and…
This review contains mention of sexual assault, gaslighting, and toxic masculinity. It’s no mistake that Jack Clark and Jim Weir have a visual cue in the form of a Wake in Fright poster in the backgr…
“It’s a dangerous business,” says the permanently aggressive Cleve, a hairdresser competing in a regional competition. Thomas Hardiman’s high camp debut feature Medusa Deluxe starts with horrors insid…
PRESS RELEASE Following its world premiere at the 2023 Sydney Film Festival, where it was shortlisted for the Best Australian Documentary Award and the Sustainable Future Award, the vital documentary…
Thomas Charles Hylands’s charming, delightful, and wholesome documentary This is Going to Be Big tells the story of the students of the Bullengarook campus of the Sunbury and Macedon Ranges Specialist…
PRESS RELEASE The Kimberley region in Australia's far northwest has one of the highest suicide rates in the country[1], with the vast majority being young Indigenous men[2]. Mark Coles Smith (My…
It could be argued The French Dispatch, Wes Anderson’s metatextual cinema amour to The New Yorker was perhaps the pinnacle of the Texan director’s affair with art and authorship. Where was the fantast…