A new film uses pastiche to explore the whimsical world of cartoonist Michael Leunig - but the man himself gives little away and the film skates over his curlier controversies.
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A Disney Hitler comedy by the director of Hunt for the Wilderpeople tests the line between funny and Führer.
Nick Broomfield’s latest documentary explores the romance between Leonard Cohen and Marianne Ihlen. But the film fails to confront the harder truths of the license taken by, and conceded to, creative men.
A documentary about a high adrenaline outback adventure race, Finke: There & Back, provides spectacular aerial imagery and personal insights.
The new Netflix film Two Popes focuses on the different outlooks of Popes Benedict and Francis.
This new optimistic and empathetic documentary from Genevieve Bailey looks at the mental health of five Australian men.
A new film contends that meditation can transform us from individuals in chaos to calm beings - and in turn change the world.
A new film examines the life and tragic death of a concert pianist once hailed as our nation’s brightest prodigy - and a former PM’s accusations of neglect by cultural leaders.
The second feature from the creator of Brass Eye and Four Lions is a savage spoof on the FBI’s counter-terrorism strategy.
This is a film about farmyards; single dads; a wedding; a funeral; horses - falling off them and getting back on - all leading to a fast climax and a no-nonsense denouement.
In the film Below, a fight club is set up in a fictional, remote immigration detention centre. However the film’s shock tactics often feel manufactured, and risk exploiting the refugee crisis as mere backdrop.
A new film chronicling the impact of racism on Indigenous football star Adam Goodes is both a damning and hopeful portrait of contemporary Australia.
A flawless French film, a Macedonian parable and a documentary following alt-right strategist Steve Bannon are three of the stand out films from this year’s festival.
As revenge films go, Australian writer-director Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale is watchable if uninspired. Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the film is the controversy surrounding the violence it depicts.
Romantic comedy meets road movie in Wayne Blair’s much anticipated new film.
What makes the Dilan series unique is that it provides Indonesia’s young audiences, who were born in the 1990s, with a window on urban youth in Bandung during Soeharto’s New Order regime.
The new Captain Marvel movie takes us back to the 1990s with a look at some of the technologies of the day. Do people still use pagers?
We have robots that can walk and run but still a long way to go before the technology matches the cybernetic skills in the new science fiction film Alita: Battle Angel.
The new film from Moonlight writer and director Barry Jenkins delivers on high expectations.
Trailblazing US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is known to many as the ‘Notorious RBG’. But the new film On the Basis of Sex is a muted portrayal of her.
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Lecturer in Communications and Media, University of Notre Dame Australia
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Professor, Queensland University of Technology
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Senior Lecturer in Screen Studies, University of South Australia
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Research Fellow, Robotics & AI, Queensland University of Technology
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Honorary Professor, Edith Cowan University
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Associate Professor and Cinema and Screen Studies Discipline Leader, Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor, Indigenous Studies and Director of The Centre for Global Indigenous Futures, Macquarie University
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