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MacTaggart explosion as Shane Smith sets fire to the furniture
Evil wunderkind Shane Smith uses ruthless logic to put boomer heads on poles at MacTaggart lecture.

What's On - diversity, IMAX, Italian co-pro, Open Channel
Open Channel, Optus film competition, provocative films, IMAX, Italian coffee makers..

Festival Update - more Toronto, plus an Oscar feature hopeful
Two more films at Toronto rewrite the statistics while Australia gets a Foreign Language Oscar contender.

Landmark study finds diversity lagging on Australian TV
In 1999 there were only two Indigenous actors on Australian TV; that figure has thankfully increased, but diversity lags in…

David Brent: Life on the Road
Too much of David Brent and his creator Ricky Gervais doing what they do best ā or worst ā doesn't…

Sydney IMAX goes dark, to be reborn with bragging rights
Why is Sydney's IMAX about to go missing? Why should you grieve? Will there be a happy ending?

Neruda
Chilean filmmaker Pablo LarraĆn's latest effort offers an illuminating and imaginative look at its titular persecuted poet.

Directing TV Drama, Legal Essentials + Open Day+More!
Upcoming highlights: DIRECTING TV DRAMA with Rowan Woods (The Kettering Incident), LEGAL ESSENTIALS FOR FILM & TV plus state-of-the-art INTRO…

Box Office - Monday 22 August 2016 in week two of Down Under
Down Under hangs on - see it NOW while a lovely stop frame animation is stuck in the daytime slot.

National Ratings Week beginning Sunday 21 August 2016 - whole batch
We are sliding into the national obsession with grown men running around in the mud, and Nine is very happy.