David Tiley
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Box Office 16 April 2018 - are we seeing the death of whimsy?
Two charming films are dying quickly at the box office, although Peter Rabbit is still stealing a lot of lettuce.
What's On in Film: Isle of Dogs, The Party and Early Man
It's an ace weekend for great animation, with some horror to scare the faithful and The Party and [fleetingly] Nick…
ACMI hits the yellow brick road to visionary tomorrow
The Victorian Labor government puts almost $40m into transforming ACMI, in its last budget before an election. The redevelopment will…
Pollies get blood out of a digital stone from the ABC
Senator Hanson-Young, not even in the government, finally gets some meaningful expenditure figures out of the ABC. There's bad, there's…
Box Office 9 April 2018 as horror strikes in A Quiet Place
The world's strangest silent film is a smash hit, while the evil bunnies continue to munch in the money patch…
Directors Guild nominations gallop towards finishing line
From Mountain to Jungle, Sunshine to Cold Hearts the Directors' Guild has a bumper crop for the 2018 awards.
The Ozzies successfully launched
The Ozzies, building on the Ozflix infrastructure, did very well on their first ever incarnation before an audience.
Ozzies - Warwick Thornton leads a parade of winners
There were some surprises on the night, but Sweet Country dominated. No real complaints about that.
The battle over quotas and kids' TV heads for a desperate climax
The Make it Australian Campaign is now absorbing a huge amount of energy and imagination in the lead-up to the…
Box Office - Easter 2018 as faith failed and a nasty bunny ruled
Mary Magdalene is doing better than we think while Peter Rabbit exactly fits the dark strands of malevolence in our…