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The Stranger Writer and Director Thomas M. Wright Talks About Trauma, Beards and More in This Interview

The Stranger Writer and Director Thomas M. Wright Talks About Trauma, Beards and More in This Interview

Andrew F Peirce Oct 5, 2022 10 min read
Interviews australian film Interview Joel Edgerton Sean Harris The Stranger Thomas M Wright

Not since the slap-in-the-face arrival of Justin Kurzel with Snowtown has there been an Australian filmmaker who has presented violence on film so viscerally like Thomas M. Wright. I say this knowing…

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How to Thrive Director Duy Huynh Talks About Bringing Mental Health Stories Safely to Screen in This Interview

How to Thrive Director Duy Huynh Talks About Bringing Mental Health Stories Safely to Screen in This Interview

Andrew F Peirce Oct 5, 2022 13 min read
Interviews documentary Duy Huynh How to Thrive Interview mental health

The documentary How to Thrive follows positive psychotherapist Marie McLeod as she supports seven people on a journey to find happiness. At first, the notion of positive psychotherapy suggests trying…

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Haydn Keenan Talks About Ningla-A’Na, Smart St Films and the Excitement of Filmmaking in This Interview

Haydn Keenan Talks About Ningla-A’Na, Smart St Films and the Excitement of Filmmaking in This Interview

Andrew F Peirce Oct 1, 2022 11 min read
Interviews australian film documentary Haydn Keenan Interview

2022 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the landmark protest documentary Ningla-A’Na, Italian-born Alessandro Cavadini’s film about the early days of the Aboriginal Tent Embassy in Canberra and the fig…

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Premium Streaming Bundle Amc+ Launches A Suite Of Direct-To-Consumer Apps For The First Time In Australia

Premium Streaming Bundle Amc+ Launches A Suite Of Direct-To-Consumer Apps For The First Time In Australia

Press Releases Sep 30, 2022 8 min read
Articles Shudder

PRESS RELEASE Leading global media entertainment company AMC Networks announces the launch of a suite of direct-to-consumer apps for the premium streaming bundle AMC+ in Australia, just ahead of this…

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Cunard British Film Festival 2022 Programme Unveiled

Cunard British Film Festival 2022 Programme Unveiled

Press Releases Sep 29, 2022 4 min read
Articles

CUNARD BRITISH FILM FESTIVAL 2022 PROGRAMME UNVEILED ACCLAIMED DRAMAS, DOCOS AND A BOND RETRO FEATURE Presented by Palace, the 2022 Cunard British Film Festival full programme has been unveiled with…

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Happy/Sad Series It's Fine, I'm Fine Launches on NITV in October

Happy/Sad Series It's Fine, I'm Fine Launches on NITV in October

Press Releases Sep 29, 2022 3 min read
Articles NITV sbs Its Fine I'm Fine

IT’S FINE I’M FINE COMING TO NITV AND SBS ON DEMAND ON OCTOBER 10 FOUR PART HAPPY/SAD SERIES ABOUT THERAPY TO LAUNCH ON WORLD MENTAL HEALTH DAY SBS has announced that It’s Fine, I’m Fine, a happy/sa…

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Under Cover Review – A Small Spark in an Already Huge Inferno

Under Cover Review – A Small Spark in an Already Huge Inferno

Nadine Whitney Sep 28, 2022 4 min read
Films Reviews australian film documentary Review Sue Thomson Under Cover

Sue Thomson’s eye-opening documentary Under Cover presents the plight of the largest growing cohort of homeless people in Australia; women over the age of 50. It gives the audience access to the lives…

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Age of Rage – The Australian Punk Revolution Director Jennifer Ross Talks About Aussie Punks, Becoming an Accidental Archivist and More in This Interview

Age of Rage – The Australian Punk Revolution Director Jennifer Ross Talks About Aussie Punks, Becoming an Accidental Archivist and More in This Interview

Andrew F Peirce Sep 28, 2022 11 min read
Interviews australian film documentary Interview Jennifer Ross

Jennifer Ross’s documentary Age of Rage – The Australian Punk Revolution embraces the lifestyle of punk and informs much of the history of punk in Australia. Featuring a huge array of interviews from…

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The Secret Review – A Captivating Page-Turner by Alexandra Smith that Details the Rise and Fall of Gladys Berijiklian

Andrew F Peirce Sep 28, 2022 4 min read
Reviews Gladys Berijiklian Pan Macmillan politics Review

As a West Aussie, it was a little bit bizarre peering over the border during the height of the pandemic and hearing the calamity of praise being heaped upon the then NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian. As…

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Exhibition on Screen Launch Their Tenth Season With Hopper: An American Love Story

Exhibition on Screen Launch Their Tenth Season With Hopper: An American Love Story

Press Releases Sep 23, 2022 2 min read
Articles Exhibition on Screen

PRESS RELEASE IN CINEMAS ACROSS AUSTRALIA FROM 20 OCTOBER 2022 Exhibition on Screen launch their tenth season of art films with the release of Hopper: An American Love Story, in cinemas around Austr…

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NITV Announces Cast for Coming-Of-Age Kids Series Barrumbi Kids

NITV Announces Cast for Coming-Of-Age Kids Series Barrumbi Kids

Press Releases Sep 23, 2022 3 min read
Articles NITV

PRESS RELEASE National Indigenous Television (NITV) is proud to announce the cast of the ground-breaking coming-of-age children’s series Barrumbi Kids. Featuring talented and diverse young actors and…

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Stray Review – This Catpocalypse Game Works Best When You’re Not Playing It

Andrew F Peirce Sep 21, 2022 6 min read
Reviews game Review Stray video game

This review contains spoilers for the end of Stray. It says a lot about BlueTwelve Studio’s enjoyably slight cat-and-android game Stray that it works best when you leave it alone. About a third of t…

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