Helen Barlow

1 week ago | thenewdaily.com.au | Helen Barlow

Numerous movies about the Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange have been made over the years, most prominently by leading US documentarians Alex Gibney (We Steal Secrets) and Laura Poitras (Risk). Benedict Cumberbatch played him in The Fifth Estate, which Assange and his coterie had no part of.

1 month ago | thenewdaily.com.au | Helen Barlow

Bono was jubilant and emotional at the Cannes premiere of his highly personal documentary Bono: Stories of Surrender, holding his wife Alison Hewson’s hand and thanking his four children and his U2 bandmates and manager Paul McGuinness, for a life well lived. “You wrote this story,” he said. Naming daughters Jordan and Eve and sons Jordan and Elijah, he noted: “You wrote the story and you continue to write your own story. I’m very proud of you.

1 month ago | thenewdaily.com.au | Helen Barlow

The Great Barrier Reef has rarely looked more beautiful – or more ominous – than in Sean Byrne’s Australian shark horror flick Dangerous Animals, which premiered in Cannes last Saturday night. Stunning aerial shots of Gold Coast beaches and high-rises surely will entice visitors, hopefully well aware that they will not experience the horrors of the movie’s characters. Still, at those moments in the Cannes theatre, some viewers were caught up in the action, with one woman screaming – a lot.

Mar 25, 2025 | thenewdaily.com.au | Helen Barlow

An emotional investigation of mortality, Paul Schrader’s new film Oh, Canada is a bit dour at times, but don’t let that put you off. Hollywood legends Richard Gere and Uma Thurman play husband and wife in this film, which the writer-director Schrader adapted from Russell Banks’ 2021 novel, Foregone. The author, a good friend of Schrader’s since the director made the 1997 film of his 1989 novel, Affliction, died from cancer in 2023. Oh, Canada draws on Banks’ illness.

Mar 18, 2025 | thenewdaily.com.au | Helen Barlow

The first trailer for the the epic miniseries adaptation of Richard Flanagan’s 2014 Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North has been released after its acclaimed preview earlier this year in Berlin. The trailer shows rising Australian star Jacob Elordi portray Dorrigo Evans, a young doctor haunted by a love affair as he struggles to survive the brutal treatment as a prisoner of war during the Second World War.