Television
Microbe and Gasoline
Michel Gondry infuses his distinctive sensibilities into an aesthetically restrained, thematically resonant coming-of-age effort.
Visualising Story: Directors, Screenwriting, Storytelling Factual TV, Production Office 101 & More!
AFTRS Open courses this weekend include APPLIED STORYTELLING, INTRO TO SCREENWRITING and PREMIERE PRO. Next weekend there’s VISUALISING STORY (Ian…
Oscars - there is no justice
It could be a while before we see such a close run thing for major awards by an Australian film.…
AIDC 2016: the fine art of surviving terrorised financiers
Production crises make for good stories, but we don't normally think of the bankers. John Smithson describes the contract crisis…
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi
Michael Bay demonstrates his usual style as substance approach as he moves from Transformers to a true tale of diplomatic…
Two groups with a single mind as Australian critics vote
So many films, so many choices, so many brains to use, honed by sitting in the dark...
Magnus Temple, reality TV and a better view of humanity
While so much true life large scale filmmaking wallows in exploitation, Magnus Temple makes tender series about ordinary people and…
Hail, Caesar!
The Coen brothers return with an aptly affectionate yet irreverent take on life, film and the golden age of Hollywood.
Box Office 21 Feb 2016 - in which we love our Deadpool
45 years, Concussion and Risen appear, while the twisting psyche of Deadpool turns out to be much more loveable than…
Sexist screen representations of women start in the script
Presenting well-rounded female characters on screen begins with changing the often desultory way they're written.