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There’s a comic by the artist Bestie which I saw as a kid, and it’s stuck with me ever since I first read it in Sunday morning cartoons. On the left is Napoleon laying on a bed, legs spread while José…
When history was made in 2008 with the discovery of the wreckage of HMAS Sydney (II), I’m ashamed to say that my collective response was ‘ok, so what?’. Newspapers tried to distill decades of mystery,…
This review contains mild spoilers. For some reason, as I walked out of my screening of Roderick MacKay’s feature debut, The Furnace, the imagery of a white-gowned choir of kids across the landscape…
Powered by JustWatch The year is 1970 and early stirrings of the Women’s Liberation Movement are coming to life in Britain. Women from different classes and backgrounds are starting to form orga…
Welcome to... Follow along with hosts Andrew F Peirce and David Giannini as they travel through the history of the Academy Awards by looking at each of the Best Picture winners and discussing thei…
In 8th century China, ex-Sleuthhound captain Zhang Xiaojing (Lei Jiayin) is given a 24 hour reprieve from his death-row prison cell to aid the newly formed Peacekeeper Corps foil an imminent terrorist…
I am addicted to David Chang’s presence on screen. I’ve long enjoyed his addiction, affection, admiration, and respect for the food process. The first season of Ugly Delicious embraced the history and…
Another year, another doom and gloom report for the state of Australian arts. I’m writing this before the box office wrap up reports have been written, but at a glance, it’s obvious that Australian f…
Three feature films inspired by Shakespeare and his work - Kenneth Branagh’s All is True, Claire McCarthy’s Ophelia, and David Michôd’s The King - made fleeting theatrical appearances in Australian ar…
I’d long wondered what Martin Scorsese’s fascination with Italian-American gangsters was. Why had he dedicated so much of his career to telling the mostly true stories of some of the most violent, cor…
The power of enduring stories is that they can be reshaped, remoulded, transmogrified, and morphed throughout time to become echoes of what they once were. Shakespeare’s Hamlet is one such story, havi…
Richard Tanne’s Southside With You is a film about foundations. It’s a film about the foundations of a culture, a society, a community. It’s a film that essays the foundations of what goes into the cr…