The new sincerity of horror has been sapping the genre of its fun. Netflix’s newest Australian offering is just the latest victim.
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The documentary Kickin’ Down the Door offers something far more nuanced than the well-thumbed tale of these national music icons.
For aficionados of Christmas cinema, the good and the bad, Christmas Ransom is light hearted and silly enough to be bearable.
This year’s program balanced big films like My Policeman, TÁR and Banshees of Inisherin with smaller, edgier films. Here’s the best of the best.
Ningla-A’Na has now been restored and is being re-released in Australian cinemas.
The plot is rudimentary, but the tone is totally compelling, the characters are likable, and the surf photography first rate.
Shirley Barrett burst onto the international scene when her debut film, Love Serenade won the Caméra d’Or at Cannes Film Festival.
A reworking of the 1892 Henry Lawson short story, this film is a subversive survival story.
This gem of a documentary explores the life — and furniture — of a Melbourne icon.
Chopper, with Eric Bana in the title role, detonated on our screens 20 years ago. The film is aggressively self-aware in its provocations but its depiction of domestic violence has not aged well.
The problem isn’t the film’s adherence to a tried and true formula, or its absolutely rudimentary narrative, but the flat and careless execution of it all.
From The Drover’s Wife to a new Wes Anderson to the long-awaited Dune, it will be good to be back in cinemas again.
When David Gulpilil was diagnosed with cancer in 2017, Molly Reynolds began making this affecting documentary.
Wake in Fright premiered at Cannes in 1971 but met with a shocked reaction. It largely fell into obscurity for 40 years, yet is now considered a classic.
The Mad Max franchise offers a distinctively Australian take on the action genre. And the fifth film, Furiosa, promises to be yet another extravaganza
The sequel to 2018’s Occupation, this new alien invasion film is overly ambitious, both incomprehensible and shrill.
The Trouble With Being Born has been withdrawn from Melbourne International Film Festival – but individual viewers should be able to decide what films they want to see.
JobKeeper is designed for people with steady jobs. The arts don’t work that way.
A series of films made between 1927 and 1952 shone a light on the convict ruins of Port Arthur and helped develop dark tourism in Australia.
Miss Fisher is one of Australia’s highest-earning small-screen exports. But it’s biggest success has come from how it built a community of fans.
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