Television
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.
Kenyan actor Sheila Munyiva on screening the unscreenable
LGBTIQ communities fight to be seen and to be heard. Can the international film community help?
Ageism in the Screen Industry
It's the unsexy dirty laundry at the bottom of the diversity basket, but we need to look at how ageism…
Film Review: Parasite is satire at its most entertaining
Korean director Bong Joon-ho is a modern auteur with a wonderful popular touch. Mel Campbell celebrates his cinematic joys.
St Kilda nominations - 2018 meets wave of 2019
The Battle of Imaginations plays out across a hundred films. Will an established swag grow, or a new treasure glitter…