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Consider a message in a bottle. There's something romantic about a message in a bottle – written to communicate with a stranger in a far-off land, sealed with the hope of connection, and tossed i…
This review contains mention of mental health issues, suicide, sexual assault, and drug use. In 1996 the controversial film Kids directed by Larry Clark and scripted by Harmony Korine burst into cine…
This review contains slight spoilers. Over the year, there have been a handful of interesting art crime documentaries: Orson Welles’ excellent mindbender, F for Fake; the unexpected psychosexual dram…
Hearing Vin Diesel's low roar of a voice, you almost wonder if that deep-rock drawl alone made Fast & Furious into a 6 billion dollar franchise. But Vin Diesel doesn’t do a lot of talking in t…
In Australian Cinemas on June 1. When one sees the title card “Based on a True(ish) Story” and brought to the screen by the creative team behind Fisherman’s Friends there isn’t much doubt what kind o…
Trained to See will be screening at the Castlemaine Documentary Festival on Saturday 17 June 2023. Tickets are available here. There are many iconic photographs from WWII, from the patriotic to the w…
Once upon a time there was a little film released in 2001 titled The Fast and the Furious which was essentially a riff on Point Break with street racing, not surfing, and small heists of consumer elec…
Trained to See will be screening at the Castlemaine Documentary Festival on Saturday 17 June 2023. Tickets are available here. There are many iconic photographs from WWII, from the patriotic to the w…
Philip Marlowes are a little like Tom Ripleys in that several actors have played the part and although there are fan favourites (Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum, Elliot Gould for Marlowe and Matt Damo…
PRESS RELEASE Leading First Nations media executive Dot West, OAM, acclaimed director, the late Shirley Barrett, and award-winning showrunner, writer and director Tony Ayres have been conferred honor…
Note that this interview contains mentions of extreme violence and trauma. Australian director Esther Takac’s profoundly humanist documentary The Narrow Bridge brings together people who have lost lo…
Thea Ehre is a force to be reckoned with. Having won the Silver Bear for Best Supporting Performance at the 2023 Berlinale, it seems unanimously agreed upon that Till the End of the Night (Bis ans End…