features
Spotlight on Toni Collette: a rare talent with a knack for playing mothers
Whatever the role, whatever the accent, you can bet Toni Collette will be terrific.
03 May
Amelia Berry
Amelia is a writer and musician, currently working as Creative Director for 95bFM (she writes the ads). Her favorite films include 2000 Maniacs, the music video for ABC's The Look of Love, and something with witches.
reviews
Shining Girls’ supernatural elements tussle with the show’s taut, sinister tone
Don’t Google what happens in this serial killer thriller with a hearty dollop of horror.
30 Apr
features
Retrospective: The King of Comedy turns a cruel mirror on those who idolise Travis Bickle
Martin Scorsese’s 1981 classic realises the same social critique as Taxi Driver, but with a new incisive clarity.
26 Apr
reviews
Landscapers is an absolute gift for jaded fans of true crime stories
Olivia Colman and David Thewlis star in four-parter questioning the very core of the true crime genre.
21 Feb
features
Wealth porn, dazzling sets and clashing characters make The Gilded Age great TV
Few periods in US history have been as rife with scandal, corruption and upheaval as the late 1800s – and it makes for great TV.
24 Jan
reviews
The Matrix Resurrections is really good – and it’s also outrageously bananas
Wildly literal commentary on sequels and reboots is more weird, more self-aware, more fun.
21 Dec
features
Retrospective: before The Great, there was Marie Antoinette – ignore 2006’s reviews, it’s pretty great too
Sofia Coppola’s film holds up remarkably well, so why people get it so wrong back in 2006?
22 Nov
reviews
Todd Haynes doco on The Velvet Underground is disappointingly conventional
Jonathan Richman and John Waters elevate what can be a dour story told by jaded people.
18 Oct
reviews
Diana: The Musical is so tasteless and yet so precious it feels like a cosmic mistake
Yep, it’s a stage musical about Princess Diana. Is it good? Is it even a good idea?
03 Oct
reviews
Gunpowder Milkshake is a stylish, brutal and fast-paced action pic
“The action is beautifully choreographed, very creative, and surprisingly graphic.”
14 Jul
reviews
Hitchcock’s psychodrama is missing from Ben Wheatley’s glossy take on Rebecca
Wheatley eschews both Hitchcock’s Freudian psychodrama and Daphne du Maurier’s gothic desperation in favour of glossy romance and costume drama pomp.
21 Oct