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2 weeks ago | 
flicks.co.uk | Rory Doherty |Samuel Scott |Stephen Russell |Clarisse Loughrey
Clarisse Loughrey’s Show of the Week column spotlights a new show to watch or skip. This week: Andor returns, a Star Wars story directly about the here and now – the genocide in Gaza and fascism in the USA. Season two of Andor starts with a nobody. An imperial technician called Niya (Rachelle Diedericks) conducts one of her nightly routines, checking the TIE fighters for faults before she packs up and goes home.
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2 weeks ago | 
flicks.co.uk | Clarisse Loughrey |Samuel Scott |Stephen Russell |David Brown
Ben Affleck returns as the titular butt-kicking bean-counter in The Accountant 2—with Jon Bernthal along for the ride as his brother. Rory Doherty bros down with the action thriller. Quick survey: If you were a tactical genius and super smart detective, what is the likelihood that you’d invite your sibling on a high stakes mercenary mission? For Christian Wolff (Ben Affleck), the autistic mercenary and financial criminal who leads the Accountant series, there’s pros and cons.
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Dec 31, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Stephen Russell
For Payal Kapadia — the Indian director behind Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix winner All We Imagine as Light — getting a film up is a little like running a marathon.
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Oct 2, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Stephen Russell
It's 1979 in the suburbs of Perth. A world beauty pageant is descending on the city, and so is the United States' first-ever space station, Skylab, which is slowly falling from orbit.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Stephen Russell
Borgen star Sidse Babbett Knudsen became a household name playing the idealistic Danish Prime Minister, Birgitte Nyborg Christensen, who came to power unexpectedly. The first (fictional) woman to hold the top job — one year before Denmark elected the real deal in PM Helle Thorning-Schmidt ñ Birgitte learned the hard way that realpolitik sometimes involves getting muddy in the grey areas.
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Jun 14, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Stephen Russell |Stephen Russell |Stephen Russell
When Ladies in Black director Gracie Otto first stepped up to direct her famous half-sister Miranda in 2023's The Clearing, she was more than a little bit nervous. What: The story of the women working in Sydney's Goodes Department Store in 1961, picking up two years after the 2018 film finished. Starring: Debi Mazar, Miranda Otto, Jessica De Gouw, Clare Hughes, Azizi Donnelly, Carlos Sanson Jr.When: On ABC iview, Sunday June 16, 8:30pm. Likely to make you feel: Like frocking up.
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Jun 9, 2024 | 
abc.net.au | Stephen Russell
Documentarian Molly Reynolds woke up in the middle of the night with something of an epiphany. She suddenly grasped that the best way to honour the memory of her late friend Craig Ruddy — the Archibald Prize-winning artist who died from COVID-related complications aged just 53 — was to craft a lasting tribute through film. "It came like a bolt of lightning while we were all in varying states of grief and shock," she recalls.
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Jun 7, 2024 | 
thesaturdaypaper.com.au | Stephen Russell
When the chaos of the pandemic’s rolling lockdowns reached Australian shores, figuring out your allotted rambling radius became commonplace. Some of us – those who could go for a swim in the sea or stroll around a park – were luckier than others. Across the world, celebrated French filmmaker Olivier Assayas fared better than most.
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May 1, 2024 | 
flicks.com.au | Stephen Russell |Steve Newall |Eliza Janssen |Liam Maguren
Ashton Kutcher can’t help fiddling around with his tragic past in 2004’s The Butterfly Effect, an unforgettably dark sci-fi thriller. Here’s Luke Buckmaster on the film’s troubling moral questions. You’ve never seen a sci-fi or a thriller quite like The Butterfly Effect: a wildly in-your-face time-travel-with-a-twist story about a man who uses his personal journals to traverse the temporal continnum, setting out to right certain wrongs—with decidedly ghastly results.
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Apr 29, 2024 | 
brnw.ch | Luke Buckmaster |Stephen Russell |Steve Newall |Eliza Janssen
Each month, loads of new films and TV shows are added to Netflix Australia‘s library. Eliza Janssen presents her picks for titles worth watching. For the full list of everything arriving on the platform, scroll down. Also, check out Craig Mathieson’s top 50 movies on Netflix list. Top Picks: TVThere’s serious TV pedigree behind this real estate drama, starring the great Jeff Daniels as an Atlanta mogul facing bankruptcy—one of the medium’s most dominant figures, David E.
