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Review: Truth or Dare
Based on the titular party game, this teen horror effort starts with a parade of clichés and continues in the…

Screen Business, TV Formats, REFRAME Innovation & more
AFTRS upcoming short course highlights include: Screen Business Essentials presented with SPA, Writing for Hollywood with John Collee, brand new…

How to handle criticism and naysayers
For any artist, the sting of criticism is inevitable. Here’s how to distinguish when it’s useful, how to handle it,…

Box Office 16 April 2018 - are we seeing the death of whimsy?
Two charming films are dying quickly at the box office, although Peter Rabbit is still stealing a lot of lettuce.

On the move: the latest appointments and resignations
Major changes for MSO, Playwriting Australia, Queensland Theatre, Canberra Glassworks, Voiceworks Magazine, and more.

What's On in Film: Isle of Dogs, The Party and Early Man
It's an ace weekend for great animation, with some horror to scare the faithful and The Party and [fleetingly] Nick…

A tribute to Linda Klejus
Cut short too early, Linda Klejus's personal and professional life rang with the love and pain of a woman who…

Pollies get blood out of a digital stone from the ABC
Senator Hanson-Young, not even in the government, finally gets some meaningful expenditure figures out of the ABC. There's bad, there's…

Announcement: Special events at St Kilda Film Festival
Shorts haven the St Kilda Film Festival is laying out the goodies for this year. Can wildman David Batty cope…

Review: Ready Player One
Steven Spielberg’s VR-set pop culture onslaught packages ‘80s nostalgia for quick, easy, shiny consumption, but fails to engage.