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Where did all the movies go? The battle for screens in your local multiplex
Arthouse lovers are racing to see films before they disappear. Australian films don't get wide release. Can we tip the…
Screen Forever: sketching in the first
Three months out and SPA is defining this year's conference. Who is coming, for instance?

National Ratings week beginning Sunday 23 August 2015 - the whole set
As Restaurant Revolution flops, Seven is slaughtered by Nine which is armed with the football.

Box Office: Cab film still doing well on 23 August 2015.
The Last Cab to Darwin is beginning to look like a money truck on the road north.

Holding the Man: from page to stage to screen
The ‘monumentally loved’ memoir by Timothy Conigrave is now a feature film: we track its convoluted journey to Australian cinemas.

How to visualise yourself into success
Research on sportspeople shows the power of this technique. It can be applied just as effectively to building an arts…

Seven keys to a documentary renaissance
Battered and compulsively evolving, independent documentaries are challenged to justify themselves at MIFF. Of course, they succeed.

An all-star cast for the first SUFF masterclasses
The University of Sydney’s contemporary art school, Sydney College of the Arts (SCA), has announced a weekend film masterclass program…

Southpaw
A knockout performance from Jake Gyllenhaal helps this standard boxing movie try to punch past its formula.

Seven: no grief in full year results
Seven West Media's full year results contain a spectacular result which is not what it seems to the untutored eye.