Screen Australian streaming: the battle heats up James Bowman TV in Australia hasn’t looked the same since the revolutionary streaming platform Netflix hit our shores in 2015. Fast-forward four …
Film, News & Commentary, Screen Rolling out the red carpet for the Velvet Revolution Anders Furze The Czech and Slovak Film Festival kicks off in Melbourne on Thursday. Anders Furze spoke with artistic director Eleanor Colla about its …
Festivals, Film, Screen Melbourne International Film Festival Diary Volume Two Anders Furze In volume 2 of his Melbourne International Film Festival diary, critic Anders Furze takes in films including the hot ticket …
Festivals, Film, Reviews, Screen Melbourne International Film Festival Diary Volume One: Elevating the Every Day Anders Furze My experience of the Melbourne International Film Festival veers wildly from year to year. One year I’ll focus on retrospectives, …
Reviews, Screen, TV Some thoughts on Four Corner’s Julian Assange ‘Hero or Villain’ Phillip Frazer The recent ABC TV Four Corners two-;part special Hero or Villain: The prosecution of Julian Assange had many serious fails: here are four …
Film, News & Commentary, Screen Eleven years, 70 friends and $60,000 later, the screwball-meets-noir-meets art world feature ‘The Big Kitty’ wraps Raymond Gill You’ve heard apocryphal stories about people making movies on their maxed-out credit cards, but this remarkable story of bringing a …
Film, News & Commentary, Screen Disney had the world stage to make a great film about the environment. Instead it made The Lion King Luke Buckmaster Disney’s new The Lion King remake opens with the sounds of birds chirping and the sight of a golden sun …
Festivals, Film, News & Commentary, Screen 2019 Melbourne International Film Festival Guide Anders Furze It’s a brave new world at this year’s Melbourne International Film Festival, the first for new artistic director Al Cossar …
Festivals, Film, News & Commentary, Screen Nine stand-outs from the 2019 Melbourne International Film Festival program Anders Furze Monrovia, Indiana Frederick Wiseman returns to MIFF with this portrait of one small town deep inside America. A festival stalwart, Wiseman …
News & Commentary, Screen, Stage, Visual Arts So you think you’re a ‘creative’? Not until unless you’re fluent in ‘agency-speak’ Rosemary Sorensen Confused about what a creative industry is? It’s simple: film, TV, video games and digital culture. That’s what the Australian …
