Helen Barlow
The boy from Oz who leapt to the top in Hollywood
He’s the boy from Brisbane who became one of Hollywood’s leading cinematographers. Dion Beebe’s resume includes films such as Collateral and Edge...
‘Christ, you know it ain’t easy’ … the revelatory cinematic ballad of John and Yoko
If you think everything that could be said has been said about John Lennon, think again. Lennon’s 1972 Madison Square Garden concert...
Free at last? Julian Assange is The Six Billion Dollar Man
Numerous movies about the Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange have been made over the years, most prominently by leading US documentarians Alex...
Bono: Stories of Surrender attempts to reveal the pop icon’s ‘true self’
Bono was jubilant and emotional at the Cannes premiere of his highly personal documentary Bono: Stories of Surrender, holding his wife Alison...
Serial delivery into the jaws of hell
The Great Barrier Reef has rarely looked more beautiful – or more ominous – than in Sean Byrne’s Australian shark horror flick...
Oh Canada: Richard Gere and Uma Thurman star in this touching drama
An emotional investigation of mortality, Paul Schrader’s new film Oh, Canada is a bit dour at times, but don’t let that put you...
The Narrow Road to the Deep North trailer revealed as Jacob Elordi talks up the production
The first trailer for the the epic miniseries adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s 2014 Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep...
Mickey 17: Toni Collette embarks on a larger-than-life sci-fi outing
After Toni Collette’s strong turn as an ambitious prosecutor in Clint Eastwood’s Juror #2, the 52-year-old Australian actor takes nastiness to another...
Cate Blanchett on Rumours and getting lost in the woods
Cate Blanchett exerted a political presence in Cannes this year, although Rumours – the satirical film where she plays a bureaucratic, lustful...
Riding the last wave: Aussie directing icon Peter Weir on his golden career
When 80-year-old Australian film director Peter Weir was awarded the Golden Lion for career achievement at the Venice Film Festival recently it...