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1 day ago | 
flicks.com.au | Eliza Janssen |Luke Buckmaster |Travis Johnson |Clarisse Loughrey
“You must watch a lot of movies”. I hear this phrase a lot, usually after I’ve just dazzled a room by dropping some sort of movie knowledge bomb. I do see a lot of movies, but only slightly more than the average person I reckon. Most of my fundamental movie knowledge comes from books. In the internet age, when a lot of movie information is readily accessible, it can be easy to dismiss the value of books about movies.
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1 week ago | 
flicks.com.au | Travis Johnson |Steve Newall |Clarisse Loughrey |Craig Mathieson
Thunderbolts*, Marvel’s latest blockbuster, wrangles together a ragtag group of misfits who are neither super nor heroes. So who are they, exactly? Liam Maguren runs through the roll call. A lot’s been going on with the Marvel Cinematic Universe recently, eh? Too much, probably. I can’t blame anyone for not keeping up with it. All these different characters, relationships, plots, subplots, timelines, universes… it’s intimidating to think you must cram all of it to enjoy the current MCU.
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1 week ago | 
flicks.com.au | Matt Glasby |Travis Johnson |Steve Newall |Clarisse Loughrey
Matt Glasby’s monthly column How to… turns a sly, critical eye on how the movie world really works. This month: How to… make a twist movie. There’s a contradiction at the heart of most movie-viewing. On one hand, films offer us an escape from the crushing predictability of life. On the other, most mainstream efforts are so formulaic you could feed them to a baby.
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1 week ago | 
flicks.com.au | Steve Newall |Travis Johnson
The best Star Wars thing in ages is about to return, as we follow the continuing adventures of criminal-turned-revolutionary Cassian Andor. How to watch Andor season 2 in AustraliaAndor season two is now streaming in Australia exclusively on Disney+ (there’s a shock). What is Andor season 2 about?
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2 weeks ago | 
flicks.com.au | Steve Newall |Travis Johnson
The Eurovision Song Contest is nigh upon us! The venerable cultural institution is back for its innuendo-inviting 69th edition. Nice. How to watch the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest in AustraliaThe 69th Eurovision Song Contest is held from Tuesday 13 May – Saturday 17 May (CEST) 2025 in Basel, Switzerland. But in Australia, it’s on SBS—both broadcast and On Demand. So if you want to get the full Eurovision experience, mark your diary accordingly.
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1 month ago | 
flicks.com.au | Clarisse Loughrey |Luke Buckmaster |Daniel Rutledge |Travis Johnson
Yesterday we announced the news that comedians Bret McKenzie (Flight of the Concords) and Aussie Hamish Blake (Hamish and Andy) are confirmed to star in the comedy Two Little Boys, which will begin filming in Southland in January 2011. The film will be directed by Robert Sarkies (man behind the great Out of the Blue, Scarfies) and is based on the dark comedy novel of the same name by his brother, Duncan Sarkies.
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1 month ago | 
flicks.com.au | Luke Buckmaster |Daniel Rutledge |Travis Johnson
Clarisse Loughrey’s Show of the Week column spotlights a new show to watch or skip. This week: Charlie Brooker’s dystopian tech anthology Black Mirror is back with a new batch of eps. Does Black Mirror still have the power to scare us? A decade ago, it felt like an electric shock applied to the public consciousness: its anthology tales of pig-fucking prime ministers, clownish TV star dictators, and the dead resuscitated by AI were dark, cynical, but just plausible enough.
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1 month ago | 
flicks.com.au | Clarisse Loughrey |Luke Buckmaster |Daniel Rutledge |Travis Johnson
Seth Rogen plays a newly-minted studio boss in Hollywood comedy series The Studio. While satirical, it’s also earnest and auteur-ish, writes Dominic Corry, with an appealing idealism about the power of movies. Into the long and sometimes glorious canon of fictional depictions of Hollywood comes Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg’s The Studio, a sometimes breezy, sometimes frenetic, often funny exploration of some of the most champagne-iest problems ever faced.
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1 month ago | 
flicks.com.au | Rory Doherty |Travis Johnson |Luke Buckmaster |Cat Woods
With somber tones, evocative imagery, and a morally complex leading performance from Cillian Murphy, Small Things Like These is a deep-thinking and engrossing drama, writes Luke Buckmaster. Small Things Like These leaves absolutely no doubt that Cillian Murphy looks great in front of a log fire, face illuminated by flickering flames.
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1 month ago | 
flicks.com.au | Luke Buckmaster |Daniel Rutledge |Travis Johnson
The Brutalist is one of those films that will set up a permanent residence in your head: once seen, never forgotten. Here’s six reasons why you shouldn’t miss Brady Corbet’s epic Oscar-nominated period drama, which has “future classic” written all over it. The story follows Adrien Brody’s László Tóth, a Hungarian architect and Holocaust survivor who emigrates to America in the 1940s, hoping, wishing, needing to start again.
