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Anthea Hodgson is a Perth based author who reminds readers of the importance of remembering the stories of the many nurses who supported soldiers and fought during World War II with her latest novel T…
This review contains mild spoilers. It’s been a long and winding road to come to the end of the story of James Gunn’s rag-tag group of miscreants turned heroes. Audiences will no doubt not need a rec…
Mike Hodges only made nine features yet is revered as an essential British filmmaker. Although he dabbled in other genres (for example pulp sci-fi with Flash Gordon, horror in his uncredited Omen II,…
Queer filmmaker Elegance Bratton utilises biographical elements in his film The Inspection. Where the line between fact and fiction blurs is something Bratton mostly leaves up to the audience; but wha…
“If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster.” “Near the Day of Purification, there will be cobwebs spun back and forth in the sky” “A container of ashes might one day be thrown…
Egypt’s recent history is one of revolution, counter-revolution, and state and religious oppression. Censorship means that films about contemporary Egypt are never to be negative of critical of the cu…
Sisi & I will be playing at the German Film Festival all through May 2023 at your local Palace Cinemas. The Empress Elisabeth of Austria’s life is well documented, scrutinised, and mourned over.…
PRESS RELEASE Erotic Stories, SBS’s bold and transgressive new original anthology drama series, has commenced production in Sydney with a stellar ensemble cast including Golden Globe Best Actress nom…
There are few directors as essential to the Australasian region as Jane Campion. Perhaps best known for The Piano and The Power of the Dog, for which she has received two Academy Awards, two BAFTA Awa…
When Ari Aster was a boy, his mother took him to watch The Piano Teacher; a psychosexual drama with twists of sex, loneliness, cruelty, and an overbearing mother. He has since declared that this was o…
The Evil Dead franchise is one that has been through a number of interesting iterations through its time in the pop culture zeitgeist. Beginning in 1981 with Sam Raimi’s impeccable trilogy of The Evil…
There is no doubting that the titular Beau (Joaquin Phoenix) is most certainly afraid in Ari Aster’s dark absurdist comedy Beau is Afraid. Beau has every reason to be afraid in Aster’s mashup of The B…