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Bridget Cormack worked on The Australian’s arts desk from 2010 to 2013, before spending a year in the Brisbane bureau as Queensland arts correspondent. She then worked at the Sydney Symphony Orchestra and as a freelance arts journalist before returning to The Australian as Deputy Editor of Review in 2019.

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Australian film company, Bronte Pictures, has begun co-production in Sydney of Wyrmwood: Apocalypse which teams up with the Roache-Turner brothers and their company, Guerilla Films. Journalist Bridget Cormack acting on set as one of the Zombies in getting shot.Rough around the edges but inspired at its core, Wyrmwood: Apocalypse, is the giddy variation on the zombie genre that will sate gore hounds' appetite for mayhem, the hugely anticipated sequel to the successful 2015 release of Wyrmwood: Road of the Dead, which reached number one on Netflix, recorded the title of being AustraliaÃs most pirated film of all time, and amassed a cult-like audience following.Jane Dempster/The Australian.

Zombies spread like a pandemic

Roadblocks at state borders; fights in grocery stores over toilet paper; global uncertainty; snap lockdowns — if the zombie apocalypse arrived tomorrow, humanity would be primed for the chaos.

Bridget Cormack

filmReview

‘Like a meth-addict being electrified’

My zombie walk into the cult terrain of Sydney’s resurgent movie industry is met with blood, sweat and fears.

Bridget Cormack

The Review QuizReview

Actor Katharine Hepburn in a 1935 photo for RKO by Ernest A Bachrach (1899-1973), which is part of exhibition 'Made in Hollywood: Photographs from the John Kobal Foundation' on at the Bendigo Art Gallery in Bendigo, Victoria.

Test your general knowledge

Name the first film that actors Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn starred in together.

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artReview

Guy Warren portraits, taken in his studio in Greenwich, Sydney, November 2020 Photos: Peter Morgan

A guy who has made his mark

Review sits down with Australia’s oldest living practising artist, Archibald Prize-winning painter Guy Warren.

Bridget Cormack

Review

Aaron Fa'aoso, host of Strait to the Plate

‘The minority of the minority’

Strait to the Plate presenter Aaron Fa’aoso says his people have a visibility problem because they’re ‘lumped’ under the banner of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.

Bridget Cormack

photographyReview

8/3/21: Artist/photographer William Yang at the Chinese Gardens in Sydney. John Feder/The Australian.

Seen, heard: ‘gayness’ invisible no more

Photographer William Yang’s work is a moving insight into his life as a gay, Chinese Australian.

Bridget Cormack

reviewReview

Jessica Cottis_ credit Kaupo Kikkas Supplied for Review

‘It’s the highest level of objectification’

When a brutal unprovoked attack for the ‘entertainment’ of a group of men left conductor Jessica Cottis badly injured, her rescue came from an unexpected quarter.

Bridget Cormack

Review

cute dog put his face on his knees to the man and smiling from the hands scratching her ear

Dogs, ‘the best psychologists in the world’

Dogs are experts at reading our emotions according to dog communicator Martin McKenna who lived with a pack of strays.

Bridget Cormack

filmReview

Bruce Lee as you’ve never heard him before

Nothing is lost in translation in a new Noongar language dub of a Hong Kong classic Fist of Fury.

Bridget Cormack

Q&AReview

Shari Sebbens at Carriageworks, Redfern to celebrate 25 years of Screen Australia’s Indigenous Department.

Who should be speaking indigenous languages?

There’s something that needs to happen first before Aboriginal language become part of the everyday Australian lexicon argues actor and director Shari Sebbens.

Bridget Cormack

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