Jacki Weaver
Megalopolis to a ‘must-squatch’: 13 highlights at the Melbourne International Film Festival
From Francis Ford Coppola’s extravagant folly to a movie about Bigfoot and the premiere of Adam Elliot’s new animation, here are our top MIFF picks.
- by Cameron Williams
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‘I’m a bit of a mush bucket’: Derryn Hinch on love and his four (or five?) marriages
The journalist and former federal senator on why he loves commitment, what he saw when he “died” and ageism in politics.
- by Benjamin Law
Civil Order Risk: Who would play who in a Novak Djokovic saga miniseries
First comes the deportation, then comes the dramatic retelling.
- by Thomas Mitchell
★★★½
Review
Back to the Outback for Tim Minchin and Eric Bana in cutesy comedy
It’s abundantly clear the film is being pitched at an international audience, but the slapstick is seasoned with some dryly laconic jokes.
- by Sandra Hall
From the Archives, 1971: Miss Krinkles is busy
Fifty years ago, “pretty little blue-eyed blonde” Jacki Weaver was preparing for her newest role - as a grunting, tuba-playing grandmother.
- by Lenore Nicklin
Why your seventies are the new power decade
From Dame Helen Mirren to Jacki Weaver, septuagenarian women are increasingly at the top of their game when it comes to career, style and confidence.
- by Caroline Leaper
'We all got lucky together': Animal Kingdom still bites, 10 years on
It won a major prize at Sundance and launched the careers of several of its stars in the US. A decade on, its legacy remains strong.
- by Karl Quinn
Mummy dearest: 14 movies to stream this Mother's Day
From superhero mums, to scary mums and haunted mums, plus mums who just want to have fun: we have your Mother's Day movie marathon sorted.
- by Craig Mathieson
Bloom review: Second coming finds religion in berries of life
The second season of Stan's homegrown supernatural fable takes the story in surprising new directions.
- by Karl Quinn
Loyal cult followers will be disappointed with The Grudge
At this end of the horror movie market, the desire to prop up a tired old franchise is more important than the film itself.
- by Sandra Hall
Opinion
Cinema
Films of the decade: from Animal Kingdom to La La Land and Get Out
This list of the best movies of the last 10 years is wickedly personal. No one will agree with all; some won't agree with any. I'll probably disagree with it by next week.
- by Paul Byrnes
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