Is inheriting the family home a birthright? Boomers and their property wealth hit the big screen A satire feature film tackles the great Australian property divide. The Canberra Times · May 26
Kid Snow takes a stab at exploring masculinity in the gritty outback, but fails to land Director Paul Goldman’s new Australian film Kid Snow is set in the gritty, male-dominated world of tent boxing in outback Western Australia. The Conversation · Sep 12, 2024
The Whale director Darren Aronofsky reveals why he cast Brendan Fraser and responds to accusations of fatphobia Director Darren Aronofsky spent years searching for someone to play the English teacher with severe obesity at the centre of his film. But the film has been accused of fatphobia. ABC News · Feb 10, 2023
Fire of Love documentary is a love story between scientists and the volcanoes that killed them The couple who died in an eruption in Japan in 1991 amassed hours of footage over three decades, which has been utilised in this documentary, narrated by Miranda July. ABC News · Aug 25, 2022
Crimes of the Future: Léa Seydoux and Kristen Stewart toy with pleasure and pain in David Cronenberg body horror Surgery is entertainment and pain is a thing of the past in David Cronenberg's dystopian blend of neo-noir detective story and visceral body horror: Crimes of the Future. ABC News · Aug 19, 2022
The Princess: Princess Diana documentary uses archive to chart public and paparazzi obsession In telling one of the world’s most widely documented stories, Oscar-nominated director Ed Perkins set out to explore what the media’s obsession with Diana ultimately says about us — the public. ABC News · Aug 9, 2022
‘Enlightening, funny’: Why Aussie film about male house cleaners with benefits is making waves The new movie How To Please A Woman, which has already screened across the film festival scene in Australia, is all at once a heartfelt "mature comedy". The New Daily · May 14, 2022
In Memoria, Tilda Swinton and Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul navigate a haunted Colombia The cult Scottish actor functions as a stand-in for director Apichatpong Weerasethakul in his tender and trance-inducing latest, which melds science fiction with the metaphysical. ABC News · Apr 7, 2022