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Big Screen Highlights - great films in the shadows of Avengers
To watch anything in the cinema at the moment you have to push your way past Avengers: Endgame. How did…
Directors' Guild poised to run 2019 awards
The long wait for competitors is almost over. The ADG is selling tickets to the awards which are unveiled on…
Amazon Prime Video squeezes indy doc makers over returns
The science and commercial logic of internet stats are not your friend - as providers to Amazon Prime Video are…
Box Offfice 23 April 2019 - Mumbai grows in US, while Captain Marvel won't move on
Has the country given up on imagination? Box office totals are mediocre, though Hotel Mumbai still carries itself with modest…
Make it Australian captures political Zeitgeist - at last
Michele Rowland, the Shadow Minister for Communications will speak at a SPA event at Fox Studios on Wed 1 May.
Not Very Funny: ABC's comedy coverage of Election looks scant
As the only source of political satire on Australian TV, the national broadcaster faces the polls without The Chaser, John…
Game of Thrones - Foxtel glee about our love of slaughter
We can imagine Brian Walsh, head of Foxtel TV, begging his execs to find him the next Game of Thrones.…
Government enrages industry with strange new streaming deal
Netflix gets tax breaks? Industry furious but the change is useless and the real rage is about total government inertia.
Sydney Film Festival honours Jenny Neighbour and goes bersersk
Eraserhead, Empire of the Senses, O Lucky Man and Female Trouble – all in one single night of cinematic extremes…
Box Office 15 April 2019 - kids's film overwhelm the multiplexes again
Despite the patter of tiny feet and herds of feral tots, Hotel Mumbai, Us, Green Book and Woman at War…