From the new seasons of Andor and Black Mirror, to The Narrow Road to the Deep North – May’s must-watch TV proves time flies when your options are this good.
- Associate Professor in Cinema Studies, RMIT University
The Narrow Road to the Deep North is a masterpiece of the Australian war genre.
1975 was a big year, with the end of the Vietnam war and the dramatic dismissal of Gough Whitlam. And finally, Australians could watch it in colour.
Directed by Akira Kurosawa,1954’s Seven Samurai is a technical and creative watershed of the action genre and world cinema.
The lavender painted bus named ‘Priscilla’ continues to pick up new fans while never going out of favour with its legion of original devotees, 30 years after its release.
While the producers of the show have said Critical Incident isn’t a ‘cop show’, it certainly playd out like one – and will appeal to fans of the genre.
The new Australian war epic is a young man’s production in more than one sense of the word.
Our experts have a roundup featuring everything from a saucy period drama, to the latest season of Blown Away, to a Stan production that brought Superstore’s Ben Feldman down under.
From the opening of this new eight-part series on Binge, High Country feels in steady hands.
Looking for something to dive into summer with? Our critics have you sorted.
The new series on Stan is most successful through its links to rural crime noir, pulling apart the vulnerability and deception of this small town.
There’s still time to get up to date on your binge watching, so you can be ready if anyone at an end-of-year party asks if you’ve seen anything good lately.
These are some of the most literal and faithful Roald Dahl adaptations ever put on screen.
Early into the pandemic there were cries and questions as to whether the cinema industry would survive. The answer, it seems, was here all along. A robust and diverse local industry.
True History of the Kelly Gang marks the tenth screen version of the Ned Kelly outbreak, and is a more violent and dark – and therefore true – telling.
With the success of films like The Dressmaker, book adaptations are giving a much needed boost to the Australian box office. So why are there so few? And why isn’t adaption a compulsory part of screen studies?
In China and Japan, moviegoers can visit a cinema where their text messages appear on screen as the film plays. While this might sound like a nightmare to some, the cinema has always been a hub of social activity.
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