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New Andor, The Last of Us and Black Mirror: what’s new to streaming in Australia in April

Plus an undead Kevin Bacon, Jon Hamm burgling mansions, and Jacob Elordi in an adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s The Narrow Road to the Deep North

The Guardian - AU · Apr 2, 2025

Halt Disney! Flow’s director, and fellow upstart animators, on a new era for the artform

At the ​​Academy Awards last weekend, a little Latvian film ​scooped ​the ​prize for best animation​. Here ​its creator Gints Zilbalodis, and ​other Oscar nominees of micro-budget films, ​discuss ​taking risks and challenging the big studios

The Guardian - UK · Mar 9, 2025

Fires, frocks and the president who must not be named: my very weird night in the Oscars cheap seats

After the horror of the LA wildfires and with the world in uproar, some had called for the show not to go on. But up in the mezzanine with the shouty hoi polloi, I saw that hope really does spring eternal here

The Guardian - UK · Mar 3, 2025

The 10 best Australian films of 2024: from creepy horror to sublime claymation

Our critic counts down the picks of this year’s bunch – a particularly edgy lot, featuring morbid jokes, profound loss and demonic possessions

The Guardian - AU · Dec 19, 2024

Robbie Williams biopic Better Man and Boy Swallows Universe lead 2025 Aacta award nominations

Netflix adaptation of Trent Dalton’s novel lands 22 nominations, the most in Aacta history, while Williams’ Melbourne-made biopic sets new record for film with 16 nominations

The Guardian - AU · Dec 6, 2024

How colour became a character in Memoir of a Snail, with the help of DaVinci Resolve Studio

Colorist Deidre (Dee) McClelland CSI shares her creative process.

Creative Bloq · Nov 17, 2024

BFI London Film Festival 2024 – a cinema academic’s look at the year ahead on the big screen

This year’s London Film Festival boasted 254 feature and short films, with an all-time high of 44% of the films screened by female and non-binary directors. But the festival’s most newsworthy event concerned a film that wasn’t screened at all.

The Conversation · Oct 23, 2024

‘Emotionally resonant’ animation wins top prize at London film festival

Jury names Adam Elliot’s Memoir of a Snail as best film in first for stop-motion feature

The Guardian - UK · Oct 20, 2024

Overtly handmade and so very moving: Adam Elliot’s Memoir of A Snail is a stop motion triumph

Stop motion films are by their nature a remarkable feat. When you know a movie has been carefully crafted, over several years and through thousands of photographs of handmade sets and characters, this alone makes it a delight to watch.

The Conversation · Oct 16, 2024

The best films to see at the London Film Festival 2024: from Blitz to Nightbitch

Steve McQueen’s new Second World War drama to the Cannes winner - these are the buzziest must-see watches from this year’s festival

Evening Standard · Oct 8, 2024