Television
Film Review: Booksmart - girls on top with too much chill
Mel Campbell enjoys this female-led teen comedy but questions its laissez-faire moral politics.
MIFF and the Australian New Wave
Let's take a punt and name it. The range of new Australian films made over the last couple of years…
Film Review: Rolling Thunder Revue - A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
Great songs, inspired performances and a good digital brush-up make this essential for fans, but is it a doco? asks…
Box Office 8 July 2019: Mystify swirls up from the past
Mystify travels on a wave of hope, Parasite is doing well, After is a strange fan tribute, and Spiderman dominates…
ICYMI: the week in arts
From poetry slam to collecting performance art; new funding models in both NSW and VIC, and an upset at the…
Australian screenwriters: so long and thanks for all the reject letters
Go global, the financiers cry, so Australian screenwriters are doing just that, setting up their own system to get Hollywood…
Film Review: After stretches romantic tension too far
Adapted from young adult fan fiction, not much happens in this adolescent love story, yet Adrian Martin finds it weirdly…
Film Review: Mystify - Michael Hutchence
Richard Lowenstein's excellent documentary captures his subject’s essence by never quite bringing the man into focus.
Big Screen Highlights: Mystify Michael Hutchence, The Third Wife and Perth's Revelations
An excellent Australian doco, some weird romance and fests in the West are just some of what's on offer.
Kerry O'Brien: veteran truthteller gives a speech to remember
At the Logies, Kerry O'Brien defends the ABC, is honest about journalism, names climate change and calls for Reconciliation.