Penelope Debelle
Iron Winter: Baptism of ice for Australian filmmakers’ Mongolian epic
Australian filmmakers Ben Golotta and Morgan Wright made four 8000-kilometre trips to Mongolia to follow a nomadic winter herding for their new...
Bring her Back: Australia’s Philippou brothers feel weight of Hollywood success
Australia’s Philippou brothers are in the grip of nerves over the release this week into Australian cinemas of Bring Her Back, their...
‘I thought I had missed the train’: Hollywood is paging The Pitt‘s Australian star Shabana Azeez
There’s a lot of stress onscreen in hit HBO Max medical drama The Pitt, but for Australian actor Shabana Azeez, the process...
The year in film: That’s (not) all, folks
Cinemas struggled in 2024 as audiences shrank, fewer films came through, sure-fire ‘blockbusters’ bombed and production companies pulled back – but there...
A Real Pain sees Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin combine in this funny yet startling tale
Two Jewish cousins who were once as close as brothers meet at the airport for a trip to Poland in honour of...
Viggo Mortensen’s The Dead Don’t Hurt redefines the classic Western
The Dead Don’t Hurt is an American frontier love story with two fine actors that elevates Western genre with grand themes of...
Green Border offers a grim but true glimpse at ordinary people caught in a cruel global game
Green Border is an affecting film about asylum seekers caught in a cruel geopolitical game between Belarus and the EU, playing out...
The Outrun: Saoirse Ronan holds this introspective film together
Saoirse Ronan’s passion project The Outrun is beautiful, inspiring and painful, all at the same time. The heavy journey from rock-bottom addiction...
Light, entertaining telling of the unlikely birth of Veuve Clicquot
In early 19th-century France, the owner of a textile business in Reims who had a small sideline in wine-making, Phillipe Clicquot, married...
The Correspondent: Richard Roxburgh excels as Peter Greste
It is one thing to know that Australian journalist Peter Greste was arrested and imprisoned in Egypt while covering a military coup...