Opinions & Analysis
Win the Week? More like Things Look Bleak for the TV comedy quiz
The ABC keeps smashing the buzzer when it comes to greenlighting comedy quiz shows ... but it's time to try…
The loss of Neighbours is a loss of career pathways for screen professionals
The end of the series raises serious concerns about the career pathways available to Australia’s emerging screen professionals.
A year ago the top ten films made $2.26m over the weekend ... and now?
On the last weekend before the July holidays, the total was $22.5m, which then rose to $30m, and then sank…
Ms. Marvel vs the angry fanboys? Forget 'woke' and go back to sleep
Yes, Ms. Marvel has a lot of firsts and is groundbreaking for a superhero story, but the premise is simple…
Persuasion on Netflix isn't entirely bad – really
We are clearly watching Anne’s own telling of her story: her own fantasy of being a playful, adorkable rom-com heroine.
Australians are animated by animation with a 'local' anima
Australian audiences are good at finding an underlying national identity in blockbuster films, however tenuous.
Lightyear fails to create a buzz for Pixar
Fearful producers could think that Pixar is damaging its brand by streaming and thereby losing glamour ... but reviews have…
Jurassic World: Dominion makes double its budget in week one
The latest dino film took $558m globally in week one, but sits just behind Top Gun: Maverick's opening haul at…
Top Gun: Maverick hits mach speed at the box office
Older audiences are leading the sortie into cinemas for Top Gun but people born this century are buzzing the tower…
Bechdel, Sexy Lamp, Vito Russo, Riz – which test is best?
The people we’re asked to empathise with on screen are still overwhelmingly, if not exclusively, male and pale.