NewsBite

Advertisement

Garry Maddox is a Senior Writer for The Sydney Morning Herald.

Two friends from across the divide try to make sense of the horrors in the West Bank
★★★½
Review

Two friends from across the divide try to make sense of the horrors in the West Bank

No Other Land, which won best documentary and an audience award at the Berlin Film Festival, was made by a collective of Israeli and Palestinian activists.

  • by Garry Maddox

Latest

Netflix is getting serious about live sport. It’s bringing in Beyoncé

Netflix is getting serious about live sport. It’s bringing in Beyoncé

A Super Bowl-style half-time show on Christmas Day and a wrestling theme song are part of the streamer’s plans.

  • by Garry Maddox
Foxes, joggers and fat feet: What I learnt doing Sydney’s new overnight walk

Foxes, joggers and fat feet: What I learnt doing Sydney’s new overnight walk

To preview the first UNICEF Dusk to Dawn walk, Herald writer Garry Maddox plodded from North Sydney to Bondi with ultramarathoner Pat Farmer.

  • by Garry Maddox
Lifting the veil on the horror abuse Jelena Dokic faced as a young tennis player

Lifting the veil on the horror abuse Jelena Dokic faced as a young tennis player

Of the many harrowing stories in the documentary, Unbreakable: The Jelena Dokic Story, the worst is when her father beats her in a locked bathroom after a loss.

  • by Garry Maddox
Australians love a laugh, so why aren’t we making more comedies?

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
From MTV to TikTok: Why nothing can kill the video star

From MTV to TikTok: Why nothing can kill the video star

Award-winning director Shane Drake says music videos are just as important for artists today as they ever were - even if a lot has changed.

  • by Garry Maddox
Advertisement
Richard Scolyer didn’t expect to be still alive. Now he’s meeting the King

Richard Scolyer didn’t expect to be still alive. Now he’s meeting the King

The joint Australian of the Year is still well after almost 17 months since his diagnosis of terminal brain cancer.

  • by Garry Maddox
‘Before, I was just invisible’: How an Oscar-nominated film changed Dolly de Leon’s life

‘Before, I was just invisible’: How an Oscar-nominated film changed Dolly de Leon’s life

The Filipino actor was so broke her electricity was being cut off before she was cast in Triangle of Sadness.

  • by Garry Maddox
‘Any early ideas I threw away’: horror filmmaker on creating Smile franchise

‘Any early ideas I threw away’: horror filmmaker on creating Smile franchise

Rising American writer-director Parker Finn is on to his second Smile film in the lead-up to Halloween.

  • by Garry Maddox
New doco celebrates an epic, forgotten Australian adventure

New doco celebrates an epic, forgotten Australian adventure

The Great White Whale tells the story of the little-known venture to climb Australia’s highest mountain on remote Heard Island.

  • by Garry Maddox
Like Spinal Tap? Try this cult documentary about Tom Petty

Like Spinal Tap? Try this cult documentary about Tom Petty

The director of Jerry Maguire and Almost Famous has restored a wild lost documentary for a cinema release.

  • by Garry Maddox

Original URL: https://www.theage.com.au/by/garry-maddox-hveby