Our Team

Actor, director, producer and writer, Graeme Blundell has been associated with many pivotal moments in Australian theatre, film and television. He has directed over 100 plays, acted in about the same number, and appeared in more than 40 films and hundreds of hours of television. He is also a prolific reporter, and is the national television critic for The Australian. Graeme presents movies on Foxtel’s Fox Classics, and presents film review show Screen on Foxtel’s arts channel with Margaret Pomeranz.

Latest

televisionTelevision

A scene from D.B. Cooper: Where Are You?! Picture: NetflixDBCooper_WhereAreYou_LimitedSeries_Episode2_00_34_01_02pkzzupc4dh.jpg

The man who vanished into thin air

A new documentary series examines the unsolved case of DB Cooper, who 50 years ago seized a jet and escaped with the ransom money.

Graeme Blundell

ritual pleasuresReview

The end of the road for Neighbours

More than three decades and 8903 episodes later, Australia’s great soapie Neighbours is approaching its grand finale. How did something critically regarded as trash survive this long?

Graeme Blundell

televisionReview

Aftertaste_Ep1_Natalie Abbott_Erik Thomson_2jpg xx xxx xxx

Spirited drama to savour

The second series of Aftertaste brings back big-ego chef Easton West, whose patterns of behaviour are a constant challenge for his family in the Adelaide Hills

Graeme Blundell

televisionReview

In a new Britbox show called 'The Cleaner', award-winning actor Greg Davies plays a crime scene cleaner who goes about the business of mopping up crime scenes after the police are done. The crime comedy also features Helena Bonham Carter. Photographer: Ryan O'Donoghue

Bloodbath on the carpet

Based on a German comedy, The Cleaner sees Greg Davies star as the man who clears up human remains at crime scenes – and helps patch people’s lives back together.

Graeme Blundell

televisonReview

Astrophysicist Tamara Davis surrounded by animated molecules Global Mechanic/ Bruce Alcock

ABC’s carbon doco has all the right elements

Sarah Snook from Succession gives a flirty voice to carbon in this clever science documentary.

Graeme Blundell

Television

It was a risk and racy

Until The Mavis Bramston Show, Australian television broadcasters were cautious not to offend audiences still wary of the medium.

Graeme Blundell

televisionReview

Grace Chow as Cindy & Mark Coles Smith as Jay Swan, Mystery Road Origin - Photograph by David Dare Parker

This outback thriller needs to be seen

The standout second season of acclaimed series Mystery Road is a welcome return to a ‘brew of tropic gothic outback noir’.

Graeme Blundell

televisionReview

The greatest cop of all time?

For seven seasons we’ve been following Bosch, the longest-running Amazon Original Series.

televisionReview

Meltdown: Three Mile Island. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix © 2022

The nuclear disaster that never was

Meltdown: Three Mile Island is a documentary series about the worst nuclear accident in US history – with a death and injury toll of zero.

Graeme Blundell

televisionReview

A life as strange as fiction

The life of Sweden’s notorious ‘celebrity’ criminal Clark Olofsson is as bizarrely astonishing as the true crime series focusing on his story.

Graeme Blundell

Original URL: https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/graeme-blundell/page/15