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February 2025

  • A still from the 2025 animated film The Lost Tiger

    The Lost Tiger review – a big-hearted Australian kids’ film with unexpected heft

  • Guy Pearce and Vincent Miller in Inside, 2025 Australian film

    Inside review – captivating prison drama with painfully good performances

  • David Wenham as Johnny 'Spit' Spitieri in a still from the 2025 film Spit, a sequel to Gettin' Square

    David Wenham on the return of Johnny ‘Spit’ Spitieri: ‘Every second day someone comes up to talk about him’

  • Actor Guy Pearce

    Guy Pearce: ‘I’m not going to win the Oscar – Kieran Culkin will’

  • Picnic at Hanging Rock review – Australian fever dream still dazzling 50 years on

  • Aacta awards 2025: Robbie Williams’ Better Man and Boy Swallows Universe dominate Australian film and TV prizes

  • Aacta awards 2025 red carpet: Guy Pearce, Henry Cavill, Phoebe Tonkin and more – in pictures

January 2025

  • Full dome viewers ‘are usually in quiet amazement, looking at how vast the imagery above them is’.

    ‘I briefly wondered whether I’d accidentally consumed shrooms’: the psychedelia – and science – of full dome cinema

  • Buwatpuy Michael Gumana looks at one of four historic Yirrkala bark petitions at the home of Joan McKie in Derby, Western Australia

    Indigenous affairs reporting

    One Heart, One Mind: how one phone call led to a key part of Aboriginal history coming to the big screen

  • Animated still showing a little boy with shaggy hair floating at what seems to be the entrance of an underwater grotto, rimmed by seaweed.

    Magic Beach review – Alison Lester’s classic picture book is enchanting on screen

  • An animated still showing a boy with brown hair and a big straw hat looking down into a rock pool, and reaching in with his hand, his fingers just submerged

    Magic Beach: how the beloved picture book became a spell-binding animation

December 2024

  • Australian Films to Watch in 2025

    Summer essentials

    Spit, Magic Beach and a Crocodile Dundee redux: 10 Australian films to watch out for in 2025

  • Boxing Day movies 2024 Australia. Films screening on 26 December. (L-R): All We Imagine As Light, Anora, Sonic the Hedgehog 3, A Real Pain and The Room Next Door

    Summer essentials

    Anora, Better Man and Sonic 3: the biggest Boxing Day films out in Australia

  • Claudia Karvan

    Walk with ...

    Claudia Karvan: ‘I’m a hashtag lazy girl … It’s a priority I set for myself’

  • From left: Audrey, Better Man, Otto on Otto, Late Night With the Devil and Memoir of a Snail

    Summer essentials

    The 10 best Australian films of 2024: from creepy horror to sublime claymation

  • Investment in film and TV made in Australia plummets by almost 30%, report finds

  • Robbie Williams biopic Better Man and Boy Swallows Universe lead 2025 Aacta award nominations

  • Stream lover

    Squid Game returns, Skeleton Crew and Longlegs: what’s new to streaming in Australia in December

November 2024

  • A still from How to Make Gravy

    How to Make Gravy review – a well-intentioned, mawkish misfire

  • Jonah Wren Phillips as Angus and Daniel Henshall as Joe in How to Make Gravy

    ‘Inside the Kellyverse’: how Paul Kelly’s How to Make Gravy became a Christmas film

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