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Sunday
Oct242021

BLOG / THE BEAUTIFUL EYE OF HALYNA HUTCHINS

From the work we'd seen of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins as she rose through the ranks of her profession, the world has been denied a true artist (Click here)

Saturday
Oct232021

INDUSTRY / MINDEROO PICTURES LAUNCH PROMISES PROGRESSIVE PROJECT SLATE

One of Australia's largest philanthropic organisations has budgeted A$10million to fund films that inspire change (Click here)

Sunday
Sep262021

PODCAST / SCREEN WATCHING EPISODE 41

The lads (one, a new father; the other, an old one) review the Disney+ super-series Star Wars: Visions; the Air B'n'B horror story, Superhost; and, a new Nic Cage classic, Pig..." (Click here)

Saturday
Sep182021

PODCAST / SCREEN WATCHING EPISODE 40

Dan & Simon get into bed with Oscar & Jessica to ponder the new event-TV series, Scenes from a Marriage; reviews of The Premise and Ainbo; and, French superstar Melanie Laurent talks The Mad Women's Ball (Click here)

Saturday
Sep182021

PODCAST / THE SCREEN WATCHING INTERVIEW: MELANIE LAURENT

(VIDEO) International superstar Melanie Laurent spoke about her latest directorial effort, the 19th century anti-patriarchy drama, The Mad Women's Ball (Click here)

Saturday
Sep182021

REVIEWS / AINBO: SPIRIT OF THE AMAZON

A pre-teen Indigenous heroine takes on the 'Disney Princess' template to charmingly winning effect in Ainbo: Spirit of the Amazon (Click here)

Saturday
Sep182021

PODCAST / SCREEN WATCHING EPISODE 39

Dan & Simon celebrate the return of a TV favourite, in the gender-swapped Doogie Kamealoha M.D.; watch the skies, for JJ Abram's UFO; and, rattle of our favourite True Crime dramas (Click here

Saturday
Sep182021

PODCAST / SCREEN WATCHING EPISODE 38

Veteran funny men Steve Martin and Martin Short find their perfect foil in Selena Gomez and bring joy to TV streaming in Disney+'s new series Only Murders in The Building. Plus director James Ashcroft and remembering 9/11 (Click here)

Saturday
Sep112021

REVIEWS / KATE

Mary Elizabeth Winstead goes full-on avenging angel in this bloody entrant in the 'female assassin' genre; out now on Netflix (Click here)

Thursday
Sep022021

WORLD CINEMA / THE PHILIPPINES

September is Philippines Film Industry Month 2021, so we looked back at the last 100 years of determined, defiant filmmakers that have shaped the often unsung Asian sector (Click here)

Sunday
Aug292021

PODCAST / SCREEN WATCHING EPISODE 37

"The horror...the horror..." With Candyman in cinemas and Chapelwaite on TV, Dan & Simon brave the dark recesses of their minds for a horror-focussed podcast (Click here)

Sunday
Aug292021

REVIEWS / WITCHES OF BLACKWOOD

Kate Whitaker's sinister brew of smalltown witchery is an under-the-radar Oz indie well worth a look (Click here)

Wednesday
Aug252021

REVIEWS / WHEN I'M A MOTH

Remember that time in 1969 when Hillary Rodham worked the production line at a fish co-op in Alaska? Don't worry, directors Zachary Cotler and Magdalena Zyzak will conjure it for you in the spellbinding When I'm a Moth (click here).

Tuesday
Aug242021

INDUSTRY / NEMO HEADS NORTH AS DISNEY+ SERIES NAUTILUS DOCKS IN QUEENSLAND

The Mouse House keeps coming back to the Gold Coast! This time, streaming arm Disney+ will invest millions in a multi-arc retelling of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Click here)

Monday
Aug232021

PODCAST / SCREEN WATCHING EPISODE 36

Some serious starpower in this week's Screen Watching review section - Sandra Oh, Hugh Jackman, Rebecca Hall, Nicole Kidman, Melissa McCarthy, to name just a few (Click here)