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Robbie Williams as an ape? This biopic is more than monkey business
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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

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

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

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

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

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
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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

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

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?

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

‘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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