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Get Ahead with AFTRS’ FREE Industry Certificate Tasters
The screen and broadcast industries are changing rapidly. Established career roles are evolving and completely new roles are being created.…

Small screen highlights: THAT episode of Get Krack!n
Emergency co-hosts stir up ABC comedy, plus Hang Ups, You Can't Ask That and some strictly Adults Only animation on…

Federal Budget offers only hot air for screen sector
The ABC and SBS stay stuck; the NFSA cops a loss; ACMA gains; Austrade could work better for the sector.…

Ride Like a Girl - the trailer
Can Ride Like a Girl beat the sports film hoodoo and pull a crowd in September? UPDATE: some answers from…

Box Office April 1 2019 - Fear in Hotel Mumbai, terror in Us
Australia is known to be a tough market for horror, but when it approves the cash comes like a massive…

Film Review: Five Feet Apart
Spirited lead performances improve but can’t save this tear-jerking, formulaic rom-com.

ICYMI: this week’s arts news in brief
A big week of dedications, key note speakers, funding wins and call outs for help.

How will the new Apple TV+ services affect us?
The streaming media wars just got worse as Apple enters the fray. But Apple may be too inward looking to…

Film Review: Dumbo
Tackling the animated classic, Tim Burton’s live-action remake only soars in fits and bursts.

Film Review: US finds real darkness in a sprawling mess
Jordan Peele's follow-up to GET OUT is flawed but deeply unnerving.