Stan’s new comedy-crime series is loosely inspired by the mysterious disappearance of Paddy Moriarty from the tiny town of Larrimah, Northern Territory.
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A Savage Christmas would give Crackers a run for its money as the worst Australian Christmas film to date.
The new series on Stan is most successful through its links to rural crime noir, pulling apart the vulnerability and deception of this small town.
50 films, around a third brilliant, and only two duds. We would never find this outside of an international film festival.
This Australian/UK coproduction tells a story which has received too little attention – but it overlooks some of the more difficult parts of Australia’s migrant history.
Safe Home attests to the ways violence is insidious and ingrained in systemic structures of power.
Vivian can’t believe her luck when she inherits a clifftop house – but the house comes with unexpected responsibilities.
Stan’s new series adapted Rebecca Starford’s memoir gives brutal and honest insight into the consequences of bullying.
Black Snow, a six-part drama on Stan, puts the stories of Australian South Sea Islanders in frame.
For aficionados of Christmas cinema, the good and the bad, Christmas Ransom is light hearted and silly enough to be bearable.
In my research into the Bali bombings and their aftermath, I have spoken to many people who were there or lost someone in the attack.
Catherine de’ Medici was Queen of France, the mother of three kings and two queens, and the mother-in-law of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Netflix’s subscription losses are a worrying shift for a business that had previously only seen sustained growth since 2011 – however there’s more nuance to the issue.
Rutherford Falls shows strained relationships, but also friendships. And above all, it features joy.
Pursuing local content requirements on streaming services is a high risk, low reward campaign. The reality is global streamers can’t save Australian television.
Too often, diva films feel like a spectacle about women being punished for living their dreams. The strength of I Am Woman is in the way Helen Reddy comes through.
While the figures may seem alarming, we should remember that, unlike free-to-air TV, subscription video-on-demand services are not regulated for local content.
Is the Australian media industry willing to come together to fight against global streaming media companies, or will Australian media continue to battle each other?
Stan’s remake of the 1992 film Romper Stomper swaps skinhead culture for the complexities of contemporary Australian extremist politics. In doing so, it highlights disillusion with mainstream politicians and media.
The cost and confusion of having content tied to so many different streaming platforms could ultimately provoke a return to bundling and a pay TV model.
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