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You start to question, is this what reality is? It's such an odd feeling. After a while, the entertainment value starts to rub off, and it goes full circle, and you're like, why am I watching this?…
Amy Goodman is one of the founding minds behind the vital independent media organisation Democracy Now! Over decades, Democracy Now! has covered civil unrest in places like East Timor, protests across…
A venue where we experience art can be transformed by the art that is presented there. That's what will happen with the upcoming horror film screenings at the Sydney Opera House from 27 October to…
Wildwood is “99.9 per cent handmade,” because “stuff that we buy stands out” on camera. The sets, puppets, costumes and props are built in the studio’s own workshops by hundreds of artists, many of them local.…
Jared himself had unwittingly become a primary subject of Aftermath with his eyes being cleared of the scales of mis/disinformation.…
Natalia Laska's tender and gentle, yet deeply humorous and charming, documentary The Piano Tuner follows her partner, Martin Tucker as he traipses across Australia, from Hobart to Darwin, tuning p…
One of the key questions in Kuba Dorabialski's Agata the Writer is who gets to tell the stories of other people’s pain?…
The Illustrated Family Doctor almost ended Kriv Stenders' career before it got started. A surreal comedy about white-collar office life with subtle body-horror elements. Doctor was unusual in Aust…
The Adams Family’s dark comedy horror take on contemporary America: The Glorious Dead is chilling, gruesome, and all too real. Toby Poser and John Adams talk about their personal film.…
When I think of the sounds of Western Australia, the licks of Wide Open Road by the Triffids hits my mind, or maybe The Waifs yearning to be back in London, or occasionally it'll be a wistful memo…
The Great Arch is both surprisingly relatable and a fascinating character study of the men and women who built the past with an eye to the future.…
One of my favourite genres is slasher films, and there's a certain joy that I get when I watch them. It's even the ones that aren't necessarily great, to me they're hangout films. You hang out with a bunch of characters, hopefully you like them, sometimes you don't.…