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Barbie Ferreira stars as Lily in Bob Trevino Likes It. 

The woman who mistook a stranger for her dad, and made a film about it

Tracie Laymon ‘liked’ her estranged father on Facebook, and he liked her back. Except it wasn’t her dad. But relax: this story has a happy ending.

  • Karl Quinn

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The 3801 from A Steam Train Passes

The classic Australian railway film that took its cameraman to a Hollywood career

Made in 1974, A Steam Train Passes celebrates a bygone era. Now it has been remastered in high-definition 4K.

  • Garry Maddox
Ashley Zukerman in a scene from In Vitro.

What can this thriller about a secret hidden in a barn teach us about ourselves?

Low-budget thriller In Vitro raises interesting questions – but ultimately doesn’t answer enough of them.

  • Sandra Hall
The Cats of Gokogu Shrine film review.

If this film is too successful, it could destroy the very thing it’s documenting

Gentle documentary, The Cats of Gokogu Shrine, invites us into a quiet world populated by stray cats.

  • Jake Wilson
Daniel Craig’s Bond looks nothing like Rami Malek’s “lethal geek” in The Amateur.

Rami Malek wanted Daniel Craig’s body. Turns out he didn’t need it

Having decided that Bond-style workouts weren’t for him, the Oscar winner opted for a new kind of action hero - the lethal geek.

  • Richard Jinman
The Count of Monte Cristo

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Ed Oxenbould and singer-songwriter Benee, real name Stella Bennett, who star in Head South.

‘Very tough’: The biggest challenge facing Australian star in new Kiwi movie

Ed Oxenbould and singer-songwriter Benee star in the New Zealand film Head South, a charmer about a Christchurch teenager with musical ambitions in post-punk 1979.

  • Garry Maddox
Bonitzer’s new film The Stolen Painting follows the true saga of Austrian artist Egon Schiele’s Wilted Sunflowers.

He’s had a hand in over 40 features. But this critic-turned-filmmaker remains a mystery

Since the ’70s, Pascal Bonitzer has worked with icons such as Jacques Rivette, Chantal Akerman and Paul Verhoeven.

  • Jake Wilson
Stephen Graham as chef Andy Jones in the feature film version of Boiling Point (2021), shot in a single take by director Phillip Barantini and cinematographer Matthew Lewis.

One-take wonders: How this filming technique creates exceptional TV

Viewers have been rightly impressed by the single-shot episodes of Adolescence. But there have been many forerunners.

  • Karl Quinn
Rachel Zegler as Snow White.

Disney’s Snow White is mired in controversy. But does it pass the kid test?

I took my children, aged four and eight, to a preview screening of the seemingly cursed remake. They are the target audience, aren’t they?

  • Nicole Elphick

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