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Streamer STAN and broadcaster Channel 9 have secured stars Luke Arnold and Bella Heathcote for their adaptation of Chris Hammmer's bestselling thriller (Click here)
Streamer STAN and broadcaster Channel 9 have secured stars Luke Arnold and Bella Heathcote for their adaptation of Chris Hammmer's bestselling thriller (Click here)
From his Perth base, John V Soto continues to roll out solid genre pics that get serious play globally. His latest is the action/thriller, Avarice (Click here)
Director Sarah Spillane and star Teagan Croft afford the seafaring accomplishments of Jessica Watson the respect and excitement they command in Netflix's rousing biopic (Click here)
An offbeat sci-fi indie, a German combat classic and an Irish ode to a disintegrating friendship lead a new-look batch of Academy Award hopefuls (Click here)
With COVID still keeping much of the world couchbound, small-screen content providers swung for the fences in 2022 (Click here)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
The iconic Adelaide-based film collective Mercury CX is desperately fighting to keep its doors open (Click here)
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)
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).
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)
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)