Penelope Debelle

3 weeks ago | thenewdaily.com.au | Penelope Debelle

Hawkins’ portrayal of a woman who presents as a bubbly Adelaide Hills psychologist with a libertarian approach to foster care is the mainstay of the film, and her trust in the Philippous says much about their appeal, and their filmmaking future. On screen she embodies, with a stripped back Australian accent, a woman who loses her bearings and descends into darkness.

2 months ago | thenewdaily.com.au | Penelope Debelle

There’s a lot of stress onscreen in hit HBO Max medical drama The Pitt, but for Australian actor Shabana Azeez, the process of netting her big Hollywood break was shockingly smooth. “Oh my god, it was the easiest casting process of my life,” Azeez tells InReview. Azeez had previously won parts in the Adelaide-made school sexting drama The Hunting (SBS), Working Dog’s public service satire Utopia (ABC) and a handful of indie productions without formal acting training.

Dec 6, 2024 | thenewdaily.com.au | Penelope Debelle

Green Border is an affecting film about asylum seekers caught in a cruel geopolitical game between Belarus and the EU, playing out on the Polish border. In between the sequels and the Marvels slips an astonishing film like this, starring no one you know directed by a woman who in an earlier film, Europa Europa, followed a young Jewish boy who survived the Holocaust by joining Hitler Youth.

Nov 29, 2024 | thenewdaily.com.au | Penelope Debelle

Saoirse Ronan’s passion project The Outrun is beautiful, inspiring and painful, all at the same time. The heavy journey from rock-bottom addiction into something approaching normal life is infinitely individual. The Outrun, a memoir of landscape and redemption, is based on the real Amy Liptrot. Liptrot wrote of how she escaped her alcoholic London life and returned home to the Scottish Orkney islands, and from there to Papay, a tiny rugged island on the north-west tip of the archipelago.

Nov 22, 2024 | thenewdaily.com.au | Penelope Debelle

In early 19th-century France, the owner of a textile business in Reims who had a small sideline in wine-making, Phillipe Clicquot, married his son François (Tom Sturridge) to Barbe Nicole Ponsardin (Haley Bennett), the daughter of a neighbouring industrialist. This arranged marriage grew into love, even as François showed himself to be a volatile man prone to flights of fancy who not long into the marriage killed himself. His legacy was to interest his wife in the wine side of the business.