Australia
Brief: Jon Casimir new ABC head of entertainment
Deceptively mild Jon Casimir now puts on his armour for the cosmic struggle inside the ABC in which the Head…
Jackie
Two sisters, played by the real-life van Houten siblings, travel to the States from Holland to meet their birth mother.
Any Day Now
The feature’s depiction of its against-the-odds tragedy is as assured as it is overt.
Wild Fury and Bearcage: merger creates an uncaged, wilder bear
Continuing the slow motion fever to amalgamate to create ruff, tuff fighting entities in a difficult market, Canberra's niftily named…
Ratings: Tuesday, 11th February 2014
Despite the horrible combination of bulk ads and commentators who would not know if they were snowboarding through lava on…
Brief: Christopher Warren to leave MEAA, but slowly
The Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance federal secretary Christopher Warren has given a very long period of notice - "he…
Are We Officially Dating?
It is in the casting rather than the supposedly comedic narrative that elicits modest entertainment in this film.
Queer cinema on show at the Powerhouse
From a new Australian doco about gay surfers to classics such as Victim, the Brisbane Queer Film Festival has plenty…
Concussion
Weigert makes what could have been an unconvincing character shift effortlessly but authentically between moods and motivations.
Sneaking in dark ideas
Jilli Rose uses the traditionally light-hearted medium of animation to tell the sad story of a very important stick insect.