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- Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
New independent Aussie film Christmess is emotionally engrossing and satisfying in its combination of melancholy tinged with the vague outlines of hope.
New Australian film Monolith is a refreshingly high concept film, as opposed to the usual social realist and period dramas.
Our experts bring you the best new shows, films and seasons. From comedy to reality television to crime drama, we hope you’ll find your new streaming favourite here.
If you’re writing about something essentially trivial, your work has to be of an exceptional standard. But Michael J. Seidlinger’s Scream relies too much on his own low-stakes victimhood.
Based on the book by Holly Ringland, new Australian seven episode TV series The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart on Prime Video is solid, well shot, naturalistic and thoroughly middlebrow.
The new sincerity of horror has been sapping the genre of its fun. Netflix’s newest Australian offering is just the latest victim.
50 films, around a third brilliant, and only two duds. We would never find this outside of an international film festival.
The Oscars 2023 was a less scandalous affair than last year, and was defined by huge wins by crowd-favourite films.
Of the ten films nominated for the Best Picture Oscar, six are really good.
There’s a lot of sequels and reboots to look forward to in 2023.
For aficionados of Christmas cinema, the good and the bad, Christmas Ransom is light hearted and silly enough to be bearable.
No other living horror writer has enjoyed Stephen King’s literary longevity. His monsters have lingered in the popular imagination, and that of our author.
Heat 2, the literary sequel to Michael Mann’s classic cops-and-robbers film, is weird. Would it stand alone as a novel? Possibly not. But reading it is an incredibly pleasurable experience.
The plot is rudimentary, but the tone is totally compelling, the characters are likable, and the surf photography first rate.
Now on Stan, the film comes in versions subtitled by Julia Davis, and Celia Pacquola with Ronny Chieng. The result is two very different types of humour.
Our expert saw around 40 films at this year’s Sydney Film Festival, and presents their top picks.
The Power of the Dog may have lead the pack when it came to nominations, but the big winner of the night was the understated CODA.
There are not many strong contenders for Best Picture at this year’s Academy Awards. Our expert picks his winner and names a couple of blockbusters that didn’t make the grade.
Paul Thomas Anderson is one of the most critically acclaimed directors of the 21st century with films like There Will Be Blood, Phantom Thread, and the new Oscar nominated Licorice Pizza.
This year’s Sydney Film Festival had a wealth of brilliant films to choose from - here’s our critic’s top picks.
From Molly Reynolds and Shekhar Bassi, ShoPaapaa is a mundane and excruciating 95 minutes – but will become an enduring portrait of 2020.
The message of Eva Orner’s new documentary is spot on, the logic of its argument faultless. But it tells us things more than it makes us feel things, and this is seldom beneficial in the medium.
Netflix requires its narrative feature films be shot on approved cameras. This can lead to a flat, depthless look, in contrast to the graininess of celluloid.
The problem isn’t the film’s adherence to a tried and true formula, or its absolutely rudimentary narrative, but the flat and careless execution of it all.
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