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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…
2020, as has been heavily documented, was a difficult year for cinema as a whole. Australian cinema in particular was hampered by shuttered cinemas and confusing release schedules, with many iconic fi…
Right across Australia, emerging filmmakers are finding their voices through microbudget feature films. I’ve written at length about Lucy Coleman’s masterful weaving of three thousand bucks into the s…
Powered by JustWatch From Photon Creative’s fauna-focused series, Tales from Sanctuary City, to the iconic Emmy award winning series Bluey, there’s been a steady increase in the amount of Austra…
Powered by JustWatch The emerging Indigenous Australian New Wave film movement has seen two monumental films about Indigenous Australian history written and told from non-Indigenous perspectives…
Powered by JustWatch In a seaside cottage in 1975 Alice Lamb (Penelope Wilton) hunches over a typewriter and is disturbed by a knock at the door. Two children are asking for donations for the el…
Powered by JustWatch Across three films, (Snowtown, Acute Misfortune, Measure for Measure), Daniel Henshall has perfected the piercing stare. It’s a look that tears open your soul and glares int…
Powered by JustWatch A bittersweet film, End of the Century tells of a reunion and the attempt to find the middle ground between romantic possibility and our limited reality. Sometimes, the peop…
Powered by JustWatch First things first: I don’t like most Christmas movies. No, I’m not a fan of Miracle on 34th Street, A Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation, Home Alone, The Santa Clause, Lo…
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 Wonder Woman 1984 (or, as is titled in the credits WW84) takes place in the height of eighties America. Greed, for lack of a better word, is good, and as a social currency,…
Powered by JustWatch Content warning: Promising Young Woman is a film that discusses and has depictions of sexual assault. While this usually would be a reason to avoid the content, I do highly…