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Australian film

August 2024

  • A still from the 2024 Australian documentary Left Write Hook, a group in Melbourne where child sexual abuse survivors can box and write

    ‘People’s lives have been changed’: could boxing help child abuse survivors deal with trauma?

    Left Write Hook, a unique support group in Melbourne, combines boxing and writing to help survivors feel empowered – and is the subject of a punchy new documentary
  • Two men kiss

    Lyrical, cheeky, galvanising: the queer film-maker who captured Australia’s Aids crisis

    The work of the late Stephen Cummins remains an archive of joy amid the gloom – and it’s screening at a Melbourne retrospective
  • Behind the scenes of 2007 Australian film Romulus, My Father: director Richard Roxburgh and actor Kodi Smit-McPhee

    How we made Romulus, My Father: ‘I said no to 10 to 12 offers – I didn’t want there to be a film’

    Director Richard Roxburgh, actor Kodi Smit-McPhee and author Raimond Gaita share how their tiny adapation of Gaita’s book became a beloved Australian film

July 2024

  • Harley Wilson and Shabana Azeez in Birdeater

    Birdeater review – nightmarish buck’s party in the bush becomes faintly preposterous

    Shabana Azeez and Mackenzie Fearnley are good as the husband and wife to be but this horror film feels indecisive and stretches too long
  • Stars from All We Imagine as Light, Megalopolis, and The Shrouds

    Melbourne international film festival 2024: 10 things to see, from Megalopolis to new Cronenberg

    Plus Cate Blanchett as a hapless German chancellor, India’s first film to compete at Cannes in three decades, and a restored Wake in Fright – with a new score
  • Love Lies Bleeding, Lady in the Lake, Brats and Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown

    Stream lover
    Love Lies Bleeding, Brats and Lady in the Lake: what’s new to streaming in Australia in July

    Plus Anthony Bourdain’s long-running series, a black comedy set during the bubonic plague and the latest from the makers of You Can’t Ask That

June 2024

  • Jacqueline McKenzie at Bicentennial Park, Rozelle Bay, Sydney, Australia

    Walk with ...
    Jacqueline McKenzie: ‘I recognise my country: it’s brutal, it’s beautiful, it’s dangerous’

    The mainstay of Australian cinema talks ‘bucket list’ projects, climbing trees and recognising her own history on screen
  • A still from 2024 Australian comedy The Emu War

    The Emu War review – wall-to-wall silliness that will make you laugh-out loud, sometimes

    This viscerally cockamamie comedy maintains enjoyable momentum, even when gun-toting puppet birds begin to attack

    • The Convert review – Guy Pearce tries to keep the peace in Māori period drama

    • Revealed: Otto by Otto review – nuanced portrait of a generational talent

    • Three things
      Three Things with Stephen Curry: ‘I’ve ruined a prodigious number of campfires with my guitar playing’

May 2024

  • Baz Luhrmann interviewed in Newtown by TikToker Georgia Godworth.

    ‘I just didn’t recognise him!’ TikToker interviews Baz Luhrmann without knowing who he is – and they talk group sex

  • Director George Miller poses for a portrait to promote Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

    10 Chaotic Questions
    George Miller: ‘Where do I keep my Oscar? I swear, I don’t know’

  • A still from 2024 film The Way, My Way: Chris at Hontanas arrow

    The Way, My Way review – a pleasurable walk on the Camino de Santiago

  • Activist and former Walker Street resident Will Gwynne: ‘The first time I saw the film, I just collapsed.’

    ‘I just can’t move again’: the Melbourne public housing residents fighting to save their community

  • Peter Weir to receive Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at Venice film festival

  • Housekeeping for Beginners review – a queer family’s fight to stay together

  • From mythic creatures to innovative documentaries: 10 films to see at Sydney film festival 2024

April 2024

  • Jenny Jenner on her sunflower farm in Kalbar

    ‘They just make you happy’: the Queensland farmers who took a chance on a million sunflowers

  • Hugo Weaving, Terence Stamp and Guy Pearce in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

    Priscilla, Queen of the Desert sequel in works with original cast, director confirms

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