Features
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…
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?
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.
AACTA faces reality, grows feature film screening list
AFI/AACTA releases second list of films to be included in film contention, to right a wrong in changing times.
Fortissimo files for bankruptcy
Fortissimo, a prime arthouse sales agent active in Australia and Asia, has filed for voluntary bankruptcy in the Netherlands. It…
Can social media undermine our entire culture? Here are the numbers.
Watching, listening and reading - how we amuse ourselves and why it is under threat.