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While vandals rule, imagine the Ideal Film School
As beancounters raid Australian production courses, international educator and film critic Adrian Martin finds the perfect film school. In Spain.…

Film Review: Mary Queen of Scots
A traditional and essentially conservative biopic that your mum might like if The Favourite is too weird.

Film Review: Storm Boy
Solid family entertainment, this remake of a classic works best when it sticks to the original story.

Small Screen Highlights: TV and Streaming
On our radar this week are Australian series The Family Law and Bloom, and Netflix Originals Shirkers and Private Life.…

Lost and Found gathering strength for its pint-sized Oscar run
We are hopeless fans of the animated short Lost and Found. Now it is on the hunt for an Oscar…

Predictions - much bigger markets, content is bait, professions melt together
How do we see ourselves in the current whirl of change? In some vast anthill, owning nothing, imitated by machines…

Film Review: Glass
M. Night Shyamalan concludes his Eastrail 177 Trilogy with a film that never feels like the sum of its parts.

Theory: Film peaked twenty years ago? Fact: You decide.
Over twenty years the exhibition landscape has changed enormously. Will film ever be as good again?

Box Office races into 2019 with a burst of history
While Aquaman drowns in money, our Favourite arthouse films do very well in the summer heat.

2019 is the year of Indigenous Languages, so get talking
First Nations artists and arts workers offer advice on how to embrace the International Year of Indigenous Languages.