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Betrayal or rough justice? Down Under suffers for its cause
A film comedy. Hot button issues. Some great jokes. Substantial actors. Bags of passion. What happened to Down Under?

Genre mashups keep Japan in Hollywood play
We offer this to you as a sign of the times.

Teaching film, working in a completely different culture
Melanie Sandford has been teaching editing in Myanmar for ten years. The results are in the Toronto International Film Festival.

Toni Erdmann
This lengthy dissection of a father-daughter dynamic constantly defies expectations, and disarms and delights in the process.

AACTA feature film list for 2016
Determined to see everything? 24 films are nominated for AACTA 2016. In spectacle terms, it is a quiet year.

What's on - LA lowdown, underwater ABC, breakfasts galore
Event of the week is Bruna Papandrea in Sydney. And Indonesians in Melbourne. Add your own.

Showcase: Black As goes stupendously viral
Neat web series Black As, itself a reboot of Bush Mechanics, has just broken a few records for Indigenous TV's…

Suicide Squad
An unsubtle onslaught, DC Comics' latest big-screen outing proves an adequate-at-best superhero movie mixtape.

Festivals - 2016 turns into teeny assault from the Antipodes
Australia's alleged film of the year remains invisible until it opens in Toronto while The Piano pops up, with short…

Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
On-screen and off, the TV-to-film adaptation of this beloved British sitcom contemplates the topic of relevance.