Television
SPA nominates its favourite feature production companies and projects for 2018
The Screen Producers Australia Awards focus on the most mysterious category of all - the behaviour of producers. What does…
Review: The Meg, Roadshow
Sometimes amusingly entertaining, sometimes dourly formulaic, this giant shark thriller bobs from one extreme to the other.
Box Office 20 August 2018 - depressed carnivore deep in the Doldrums
Shark movie triumphant? Not exactly. Theory is that it lacks gore because it had to be kept as a PG…
Review: Mandy, MIFF
Nicolas Cage is at his unhinged yet earnest best in this lurid, ultra-violent, unforgettable revenge tale.
Cinefest Oz: a hundred thou in the balance
Cinefest Oz is just five days away, and four teams and four teams will be sweating out their head to…
What's on Screen? 16 August 2018 brings Ultimate Shark Screamer
All restraint gone as The Meg treats audiences like a cloud of burley in an underwater multiplex. Also, for the…
Country Roads: a regional pathway to directing with The Merger's Mark Grentell
Mark Grentell didn't go to film school, but teaching drama to kids and directing musical theatre in country NSW gave…
AACTAs reveal the respectable face of Australian cinema
The bigger budget contestants at the AFI/AACTAs for 2018 are a varied bunch. The old cliche of sad films is…
Review: Submergence, Wim Wenders
Alicia Vikander and James McAvoy play yearning lovers in a film about everything.
Review: Island of the Hungry Ghosts
This poetic Australian documentary takes its own astonishing, heartbreaking path through the global refugee crisis.