In this regular column, we drag forgotten made-for-TV movies out of the vault and into the light. This week: the 1974 thriller All The Kind Strangers, starring the late Stacy
A children’s film made in Queensland is facing an uncertain international future after streaming and distribution partners distanced themselves from Fing!, following sexual misconduct allegations against its co-writer and star,
You love ’em, he hates ’em! The Butcher carves up your favourite films, and this week, he applies his sharpened cleaver to 2012’s epic The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey, the
"The series is a landmark in film criticism." - Quarterly Review of Film and Video The BFI Film Classics series introduces, interprets and celebrates landmarks of world cinema. Each volume
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… a film that stays with you for a long long time.
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`… transgressive and open … seeking to understand what it sees without falling back on truisms and easy explanations.
Next week (17 November 2026) sees Adelaide’s Mercury Theatre host a special Q&A for the indie All My Friends Are Back in Brisbane – the first time the movie has
More than six decades after the ABC rejected it as too controversial, an overlooked work by one of Australia's most important playwrights is finally getting its first Australian performance –
Managing Director of Blackfella Films, the First Nations owned production company behind First Australians, Redfern Now, Mabo, The Tall Man and Total Control, among others, makes his directorial debut with
Australian filmmaker D.C. Fairhurst and writer, actor and producer Lucy Green have taken the familiar ingredients of a crime caper and given them a distinctly local twist with Pickpockets. Directed