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Before Wednesday the 9th of December, I had never been to anything close to a film festival. I’ve seen my fair share of “festival darlings”, but I’ve always wanted to experience being on the ground-fl…
Powered by JustWatch Deep in the background, as the obligatory Aussie film drone shot opens Jocelyn Moorhouse’s masterful Western The Dressmaker, you can faintly hear the iconic whistle of Ennio…
Content Warning: This post contains discussions of death, suicide, and mental illness. Not dead yet. This has become my go-to response when people ask me ‘how I’m going?’ After a spate of heightened…
In writer/director Wayne Groom’s recount of the making of Maslin Beach, he mentions that ‘in 1983, when I set down my future goals, my major goal was to produce, write and direct a feature film’. Read…
An Ideal Host screens at Perth's Revelation Film Festival on 11/12/2020 and 12/12/2020. Visit the website for details and tickets. As the filmic world adjusts to a new, morphing landscape, where…
We’re going to have to get used to the obligatory mention of the current pandemic when it comes to articles about awards discussions and the like, given how much of a disruption this whole Covid thing…
This Thursday 22 October is World Wombat Day and what better way to celebrate than to see the fantastically colourful, adventure-packed Combat Wombat in cinemas NOW. Also available for home viewing on…
The 2020 AACTA awards are coming in hot, with a Covid-afflicted ceremony to be held in November, replete with staggered sittings to ensure guest safety in a limited capacity. As we near the ten year a…
The 1972 Bruce Lee film Fist of Fury is being redubbed for a new audience as Fist of Fury Noongar Daa. We are taking the kung fu classic and dubbing it in Noongar to make for a unique cinematic exper…
There's a film revival occurring in Western Australia right now, with Premier Mark McGowan calling for a film studio to be established, and a renewed interest in getting stories made in this great…
Powered by JustWatch As with much of Tim Winton’s output, Dirt Music is a narrative drenched in masculinity. It simmers with whispered thoughts that ricochet around the minds of men who yearn fo…
Powered by JustWatch In 1999, Heath Ledger arrived on cinemas screens as a fully formed film star with a one-two punch of stellar films. His laid-back looks and easy-going ocker attitude made hi…