Australian film
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Robbie Williams as an ape? This biopic is more than monkey business
Better Man is far more unconventional than Bohemian Rhapsody, but lacks the connective personal tissue that held Rocketman together.
- by Craig Mathieson
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Huge drop in drama, comedy production in Australia, new figures show
Hollywood strikes put a big dint in screen production in Australia in the last financial year.
- by Karl Quinn
Twenty-five years on, Australian classic Two Hands is set for a sequel
Garry Maddox revisits the beloved crime comedy that helped catapult a teenage Heath Ledger and Rose Byrne into stardom.
- by Garry Maddox
A monkey playing Robbie Williams in a film was a gamble. But it appears to be paying off
Michael Gracey’s follow-up to The Greatest Showman, Better Man, has set a record for most AACTA Award nominations.
- by Garry Maddox
Forget books, we should make more movies based on songs
It’s time to adapt classics such as Flame Trees, From Little Things Big Things Grow and Somebody That I Used To Know.
- by Garry Maddox
Musical drama that shows another side of troubled Alice Springs is heading for cinemas
Under Streetlights was inspired by a hip-hop song by a young Indigenous rapper.
- by Garry Maddox
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If Paul Kelly’s classic Christmas song makes you tear up, this film will too
Nick Waterman’s film adaptation, written with Meg Washington, captures the spirit of How to Make Gravy.
- by Garry Maddox
How Paul Kelly’s classic song How to Make Gravy was turned into a different kind of Christmas film
Co-writers Meg Washington and her director husband, Nick Waterman, knew the stakes were high: “We treated the song like it was Shakespeare.”
- by Louise Rugendyke
Nugget is Dead – and so is the comedy in this half-baked Christmas caper
The Australian Christmas film is becoming something of a tradition, but this one doesn’t quite hit the spot.
- by Karl Quinn
Australians love a laugh, so why aren’t we making more comedies?
Decades after Babe, The Castle and Muriel’s Wedding became hits, the head of the country’s screen producers’ association has declared we should be making more funny films.
- by Garry Maddox
‘I made this movie for the stolen mob’: A horror about historic wrongs
The Moogai offers a perspective on the Stolen Generations that has been sorely missing in mainstream Australian cinema.
- by Nell Geraets
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