TELEVISION / THE BEST TELEVISION SHOWS OF 2022

With COVID still keeping much of the world couchbound, small-screen content providers swung for the fences in 2022 (Click here)

REVIEWS / THE COST

All the moral issues that generally arise in 'vigilante cinema' rear their ugly heads in Matthew Holmes' skilfully crafted Australian indie, The Cost (Click here) 

FEATURES / THE SCREEN-SPACE BEST FILMS OF 2022

Theatres waited for patrons post-COVID...and waited...and waited. It took a healthy dose of '80s nostalgia to bring them back in droves, but it's not like there were no films worthy of your movie-going dollar in 2022 (Click here) 

BLOG / THIS YEAR'S CINEMATIC BIN WATER: THE WORST FILMS OF 2022

Cash-grab sequels, video game adaptations, pointless remakes - the usual Hollywood dreck makes our Worst Films of 2022 list. But there's some misbegotten indie sludge and lots of streamer filler, too (Click here)  

REVIEWS / AVATAR: THE WAY OF WATER

Thirteen years on, James Cameron envisions a vast interplanetary aqua-scape...then plods through a 'family first' message film rife with diminishing returns (Click here)

REVIEWS / POKER FACE

With his creative input spanning multiple disciplines, there's no hiding for Russell Crowe when the finger-pointing starts on his latest, Poker Face (Click here)

INDUSTRY / MERCURY CX PITCHING HARD FOR DOLLARS, INDUSTRY SUPPORT AS CLOSURE BECKON

The iconic Adelaide-based film collective Mercury CX is desperately fighting to keep its doors open (Click here)

INDUSTRY / CASTING SECTOR HERALDS NEXT GEN TALENT POOL IN RISING STARS LIST

Australia's acting future has had a spotlight shone on them by the Casting Guild of Australia as part of the 2022 Rising Stars list (Click here)

TELEVISION / APPLE TV+ ADDS BAD SISTERS SEASON 2 TO LIST OF RECENT RENEWALS

The Garvey sisters, five ladies who struggle to find meaningful relationships on-screen in Bad Sisters, find love from AppleTV+, with a second season just greenlit (Click here).

REVIEWS / THE HAUNTING OF THE MURDER HOUSE

YouTubers desperate for online eyeballs can't believe what they find when they lock themselves into a real fixer-upper, in this derivative no-brainer from The Rudnicki Brothers (Click here)

WORLD CINEMA / PREVIEW: 2022 JAPANESE FILM FESTIVAL

A free sidebar featuring master filmmaker Mikio Naruse, including his 1955 masterpiece Floating Clouds (pictured), is one of many highlights in this year's Japanese Film Festival (Click here)

INDUSTRY / PRAYERS ANSWERED AS CHURCH CITY AUDS FLOCK TO ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL

Returning post-COVID to a full live-event roster of screenings and sidebars, the Adelaide Film Festival hits big with audiences and filmmakers alike (Click here). 

WORLD CINEMA / PREVIEW: 2022 PALESTINIAN FILM FESTIVAL

After a three year hiatus, the 2022 Palestinian Film Festival is about to unspool across Australia, led by the Opening Night film Farha (pictured), with a program of diverse and thoughtful works (Click here)  

FEATURES / PREVIEW: 2022 VETERANS FILM FESTIVAL

The only big-screen showing in Australia of the new Jennifer Lawrence film Causeway will launch the Veterans Film Festival, in Sydney from November 3 (Click here)

BLOG / HOW AMSTERDAM AND DON’T WORRY DARLING HEIGHTEN THEIR REALITIES TO DISSECT OURS

They're not perfect films, of course, but this week's new cinema releases suggest there are still some brains behind the brights lights of Hollywood (Click here)