Penelope Debelle
Warwick Thornton’s The New Boy delivers a story of Indigenous power and wonder
The dramatic opening filmed on stony ground near Burra in South Australia has the titular new boy (Aswan Reid) choking the life...
Film review: Australia’s Ben Mendelsohn stars in To Catch a Killer
The sweeping opening on a New Year’s Eve in Baltimore goes straight to the heart of American darkness. A sniper is picking...
Marlowe: The real crime isn’t the dead body in this soft-focus stab at a familiar genre
We have been here before. Hard-boiled private detective Philip Marlowe (Liam Neeson) is hired by a gorgeous dame, Clare Cavendish (Diane Kruger),...
Mum’s the word for Celeste Barber’s former drama teacher turned co-star
A couple of decades back, Adelaide actor and drama teacher Genevieve Mooy had the larger-than-life Celeste Barber in her acting class. Barber...
Australian Toni Collette stars in good-natured romp Mafia Mamma
This is something of a good-natured romp that plays on inverted expectations when naive American housewife Kristin – played by Toni Collette...
How a puffy basketball recruiter signed Michael Jordan for Nike in Air
Back in the early 1980s, Michael Jordan was a college basketballer showing signs of greatness. Those close to him – his family,...
‘Exhausting and unrewarding’: Margot Robbie’s Babylon shocks for all the wrong reasons
It is to be expected that a film portraying Hollywood as a fickle and soulless industry should be hollow at its core....
Delirious fever dream delves into the intense inner life of Emily Bronte
One of the great literary wonders is how the Bronte sisters wrote with such passionate intensity when they grew up in an...
The Fabelmans: Glimpse into the life of a young Steven Spielberg
The trailer sets us up for a saccharine backstory in which Sammy Fabelman, who we understand to be the famed director Steven...
The Banshees of Inisherin: A tale of madness, brotherhood and companionship turned dark
The Banshees of Inisherin sees Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson give powerful performances in a story of brotherhood and companionship, turned to...