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Aussie director Liam Firmager may seem like an odd choice to bring a documentary about the iconic singer-songwriter Suzi Quatro, but as we find out over the films runtime, it may not be that odd given…
Happy Sad Man may be the most important film you’ll see this year. Director Genevieve Bailey turns the camera on five men and shows us who they are behind their smiling faces. These are men who look…
Back in August of 2019, Pauline Hanson decided she’d travel to the NT to climb Uluru, regardless of what Anangu people wanted. In a great form of irony, Hanson got stuck and had to be rescued, swiftly…
If you stand over a certain grate on a fairly innocuous concrete island in Times Square, New York City, you’ll experience something unique and memorable. This grate looks exactly like every other subw…
I first became aware of Jonathan Gold through film critics Dave White and Alonso Duralde on their podcast, Linoleum Knife. While they had discussed Gold on the show prior to his death in 2018, it was…
A stretch of forest on the border of Lithuania and Russia stands naked and bare, the leaves of the trees have been seared off by the caustic shit that cascades down from the cormorants that call the f…
Perth’s Revelation Film Festival has been host to some truly brilliant Aussie rockumentaries, with Mat de Koning’s kick ass Meal Tickets and Travis Beard’s raucous Rockabul both blasting the roof off…
Rolling on for another huge year of great content is Australia’s finest documentary film festival – the Melbourne Documentary Film Festival. With a huge wealth of content and guests, with subjects str…
Cultural differences are an intriguing thing. In one country, you can download an app onto your phone to meet a potential soul mate, whereas in another country, you line up on a stage in a shopping ma…
Woodstock at Fifty: A Venue for the End of the World is director Aidan Prewitt's look back at one of the most famous, influential music festivals in the world - Woodstock. Aidan looks at the peace…
In 2018, a report written by Sophie Russell and Chris Cunneen stated that Indigenous Incarceration has increased by 45% in the last decade – that’s from 2008 -2018. We make up under 3% of the populati…
In March 2019, Helen Davidson from The Guardian wrote an alarming article, it was titled “Record Numbers of Australian Wildlife Species Face Imminent Extinction”. Just the title is enough to make you…