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Andrew F Peirce·December 24, 2021·15 min read

A Love Letter to the Australian Films of 2021 and an Announcement for the Future

They say that limitation breeds creativity. They’re not wrong. A year ago, I made the decision that from January 2020...

Andrew F Peirce·October 31, 2021·15 min read

Australian Stories Are Back in Force with the 2021 AACTA Award Nominations

A decade after relaunching the AFI (Australian Film Institute) awards under a new banner, the AACTA (Australia Academy Cinema Television...

Press Release·November 10, 2021·3 min read

High Ground and The Dry Stars Amongst the Casting Guild of Australia’s Rising Stars List for 2021

The Casting Guild of Australia has today crowned Australia’s top emerging talent of 2021, revealing its 7th annual list of CGA Rising Stars....

Andrew F Peirce·December 30, 2020·12 min read

High Ground Review – A Frightfully Tense Meat Pie Western Steeped in Indigenous Australian History

Powered by JustWatch The emerging Indigenous Australian New Wave film movement has seen two monumental films about Indigenous Australian history...

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The Curb

13 hours 34 minutes ago

Josh Margolin’s THELMA is a marvellous, witty, smart, and wholeheartedly charming affair. A sublime mixture of comedy and affection for

Thelma is a Hilarious, Charming, and Huge-Hearted Triumph

"What would Tom Cruise do?" Nadine Whitney reviews Josh Margolin's THELMA for The Curb.

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The Curb

5 days 13 hours ago

LAST SUMMER is an indictment of bourgeois morality and respectability in keeping with Catherine Breillat’s sensibilities. Starring Léa Druker and

With Last Summer, Catherine Breillat Once Again Provokes Ideas of Hypocrisy and Morality - The Curb

Last Summer screens at the Melbourne International Film Festival on August 11, 13, and 19. Director, author, and provocateur Catherine Breillat returns to the screen after a near ten-year hiatus with Last Summer (L’été dernier), an interpretation of the Danish film, Queen of Hearts (Dronningen) ...

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The Curb

5 days 14 hours ago

KNEECAP is fecking fantastic and searingly smart. It certainly should come with a warning of “Do Not Try This at

Kneecap is the Craic – It’s Brave, Bold, Ridiculous, and Relentless - The Curb

“Every word of Irish spoken is a bullet fired for freedom.” Fuck up it is! Rich Peppiatt’s hyper-kinetic Kneecap is A Hard Day’s Night for the North of Ireland and the hip hop generation. A little bit true and a lot untrue version of the formation of the Irish language hip hop West Belfast t...