Television
John Wick
John Wick offers a fleet feat of thrills and fury, ever economical, effective and artfully presented.
The Best of Me
The latest screen adaptation of Nicholas Sparks' wish-fulfilment flights of fancy fits the author's melodramatic oeuvre perfectly.
This Is Where I Leave You
This tale of adult siblings forced to unite under tragic circumstances features a great cast, but doesn't shine.
Force Majeure: a wonderful challenge to conventional methods
Force Majeure, running in cinemas at the moment, romps in long-take heaven, before the editing hell of life without cuts...
Brief: Blanchett key to stealth show for harbour city
The Truth will out as lowish budget Mythology Entertainment production brings Redford and Blanchett together in Sydney.
Fury
In the war-time wilds of Fury, writer/director David Ayer matches combat and testosterone with contemplation and tension.
Brief: MIAFF confronts artistic comfort with doco program
Eight startling documentaries about Art, Politics and Protest, challenge our vision of the arts in an admiring community.
Screen Australia: destroys complete level of co-pro documentation
No more the Letter of Preliminary Compliance cries Graeme Mason to a London audience as he pushed his business message.
Screen Forever: Create, Creative, Creator
With four weeks to go, Screen Producers Australia has announced a raft of key program sessions.
Whitlam: the power of inspiration
Attitudes to the arts were among the many things that changed under the leadership of Gough Whitlam, who died today…