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film December 10, 2025
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
Rian Johnson’s third Knives Out movie, Wake Up Dead Man, is a perfectly balanced romp.
opera December 6, 2025
For director Constantine Costi, all the world’s a stage, whether it’s an opera production or a porridge-making competition in a Scottish village.
film December 6, 2025
Marrakech International Film Festival
The latest iteration of the Marrakech International Film Festival – the Arab world’s most important – highlights the triumphs and trials of the human spirit.
film November 15, 2025
Walkley-nominated documentary Yurlu | Country
Yurlu | Country records the devastating cost of the Wittenoom asbestos mine to the Banjima people and their land.
film November 1, 2025
Highlights of this year’s New York Film Festival include the powerful blood-and-brocade high seas saga Magellan and the heist drama The Mastermind.
film October 29, 2025
Yorgos Lanthimos’s latest film, Bugonia, remakes a South Korean B-grade comedy into a war of words on contemporary delusions.
film October 25, 2025
The maverick Scottish filmmaker behind We Need To Talk About Kevin and You Were Never Really Here returns with Die My Love, a feral, funny story of motherhood and survival.
film October 22, 2025
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere limits itself to one crucial sliver of the Boss’s life to escape the clichés, but it’s a biopic through and through.
film October 15, 2025
Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt
Julia Roberts shines in Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt, an exploration of cancel culture that is hard to imagine even being made a few years ago.
television October 11, 2025
Screenwriter and director Tony Ayres
His outsider upbringing means Tony Ayres, the brains behind television series such as The Slap, Nowhere Boys and an upcoming drama based on Erin Patterson, is drawn to complex characters.
