Television

Ita Buttrose to buttress battered ABC
The chair of the ABC may be a recurrent circus, but this is surely the first time a chair has…

Monte Miller awards showcase new talent
Winners announced in premier Awards for future of Australian screenwriting.

Oscars - hopes dashed, dreams turn to ashes.
Rolling out the most intense, most venal, most undignified cultural prize in the English-speaking world. Also the most addictive, and…

Box Office - all the energy of a dead kipper
Green Book, The Favourite, Stan and Ollie, What Men Want, Wandering Earth - all have their lessons at the world…

Review: Alita Battle Angel
Decay, rebirth or both? Alita has a healthy audience, a certain youthful innocence and the contradictory energy of James Cameron…

Around the web 22 Feb 2019 - leading off with In Like Flynn
Lots of Netflix news, plus China complications, In Like Flynn interview, and Oscar scripts. And the future of AI.

Review: Soderbergh's High Flying Bird has skin in the game
This Netflix feature shot on iPhone and set in the world of American basketball may baffle or intrigue.

Guild News - announcements for 22 February 2019
The ADG Awards, Production Designers Guild and Oscars, Screenworks widens composers scheme, AWG wants your AWGIE submissions.

Oscars - who do we think will win?
In a really wide open field, we risk Screenhub's reputation with some firm predictions. Will we be humiliated by Monday…

Berlinale 2019: Australian filmmakers go global to stay global
Soaked in the authentic gravity of German audiences on Potsdamerplatz, Sarah Ward assesses the Australian impact in 2019.