Features
Ratings: Tuesday, 11th June 2013
Seven scrapes in over Nine, Ten nearly makes the magic 20, ABC is mediocre and SBS makes 10.6%. Wow.
Top of the Lake: scores blip at US Critics' Choice Television Awards
The Broadcast Film Critics Association in the US somehow failed to notice the works of genius from Shanghai, Burkina Faso…
SFF 2013: reflections shimmer on Mystery Road
Greg Dolgopolov, academic, festival organiser and genre nerd, is seriously impressed by Mystery Road. The plot issues that some people…
The Hobbit: you want a dragon? It's coming..
Depressed by Game of Thrones? Sometimes looking like it was shot with a chocolate box loaded with lenses, episode two…
New Cameras: experts pore over latest budget range, eyes gleaming and tails wagging
I want a camera that doesn’t get in the way of getting all the shots I can see. In the…
Deals: Arclight takes Mystery Road to US, Rocket hits the UK
House Husbands is renewed, Packed to the Rafters is packed off, Ivan Sen's Mystery Road follows The Sapphires on the…
Iain Banks: great popular fiction writer dead at 59
Iain Banks, aka Iain M. Banks was a very fine novelist, a fabulous ranter, smart on web publishing, and an…
Bananas in Pyjamas: nation goes bananas over premature obituary
Bananas is axed, quoth the Fairfax Press. No, no, just photosynthesising between theathons, saith the ABC. Parents of Australia put…
Playpen: making the Blackwater battle
Game of Thrones now has serious cult status, and the DVD extras have swarmed onto the net. Here is our…
SFF 2013: the great and the glamorous entranced by Mystery Road
A tough Indigenous film from Ivan Sen, surely one of the most uncompromising directors in Australia, could have gone either…