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Crisis in TV land when adapted novels run out of story
Adapting a set of novels into television series is a fabulous recipe to create sequels. But what happens when the…

Box Office Jan 18 2016: they came, we saw, they plundered
Beyond the eternal adolescence of Star Wars, we have... not much, really as one picture dominates the market so completely.

Oscars: diversity issue rages while Fury Road creates a few surprises
Fury Road honoured by Critics Awards in US and UK while that diversity issue continues to embarrass the competitions.

Showcase: strangest intercultural mashup of all time...
What happens when rap gets to Siberia, and reaches back to Youtube? Very slick, strange and homely.

Oscar 2016 - the full list
The race is on, as Fury Road lines up against The Revenant, pitting Furiosa against a bum-eating bear.

Oscars 2016 - comparing the other big awards
The awards season has a dramatic structure, leading up to the Oscars, as each rung tries to predict the final…

Box office for Australian films internationally for 2015
Each year, Antony I Ginnane brings us the real truth about the performance of Australian films internationally. What are the…

Legendary falls to Wanda's modern Napoleon
Legendary Pictures re-invents itself as a Chinese entity heading for the stock market, in another sign of the times.

Beneath the screams the numbers tell the story of TV success
OzTam's figures kiss Seven on its wrinkled brow, and showed the awful difference between the power of drama and sport…

The year in subscription TV - ruder health than we think
The annual figures for Foxtel are dominated by Game of Thrones, suggesting that Wentworth needs a bit of eye-gouging to…