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2026

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08.05.2026FILMFuriosa and the country George Miller will not leaveBRONTE HAUGHEY 07.05.2026TVBoy Swallows Universe and what Netflix actually paid forRHYS TAVITA 06.05.2026ESSAYSSix years of writing about Australian film taught me what I was looking forMARA DENG 06.05.2026ESSAYSOf an Age and the country a 24 hour love can holdMARA DENG 04.05.2026ESSAYSAustralian cinema does not know what it wants to be next and that might be the whole pointMARA DENG 02.05.2026FILMSix years of Australian cinema and the argument is still openBRONTE HAUGHEY 01.05.2026MUSICEvery Australian film has a sound and most of them go unheardKIERAN BOUSTANY 28.04.2026INDUSTRYAustralian production spending fell 18 per cent in Q1 2026 and the floor is still not visibleODETTE MALOUF 16.04.2026TVAustralian television in 2026 has more shows and fewer places to put themRHYS TAVITA 08.04.2026MUSICThe newest Australian score worth hearing is the one nobody is talking aboutKIERAN BOUSTANY 02.04.2026ESSAYSLeah Purcell rewrote the bush myth and then set fire to itMARA DENG 28.03.2026FILMSydney Film Festival 2026 opens with a question the programme cannot answer aloneBRONTE HAUGHEY 24.03.2026INDUSTRYScreen Australia funded 112 development projects in 2025 and most will never be madeODETTE MALOUF 18.03.2026ESSAYSCate Blanchett keeps one foot in Australia and Australian cinema keeps asking her to put it downMARA DENG 10.03.2026MUSICStreaming killed the film score budget and Australian composers adapted firstKIERAN BOUSTANY 24.02.2026INDUSTRYThe SVOD local content quota is one year old and the numbers are inODETTE MALOUF 18.02.2026MUSICAustralian film music in 2026 sounds closer to the ground than it used toKIERAN BOUSTANY 16.02.2026ESSAYSWhat is Australian film criticism for if the audience is not reading itMARA DENG 10.02.2026MUSICThe score for The Surfer never lets the tide go outKIERAN BOUSTANY 28.01.2026FILMGeorge Miller made a film about storytelling and the audience wanted another car chaseBRONTE HAUGHEY 22.01.2026INDUSTRYAustralian films earned $340 million internationally in 2025 and most of it was one filmODETTE MALOUF 20.01.2026MUSICThe sound of the Wasteland from Brian May to Junkie XLKIERAN BOUSTANY 14.01.2026ESSAYSACMI holds the memory that Australian cinema keeps forgetting to saveMARA DENG

2025

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22.12.2025ESSAYSThis year I watched forty Australian films and the best ones made me nervousMARA DENG 16.12.2025MUSICFive Australian composers who are about to score everythingKIERAN BOUSTANY 04.12.2025FILMThe Plains watches a man drive home from work for three hours and earns every minuteBRONTE HAUGHEY 26.11.2025TVThe best Australian TV of 2025 was scattered across too many platforms to findRHYS TAVITA 20.11.2025INDUSTRYThe Australian screen industry enters 2026 with fewer commissions and more questionsODETTE MALOUF 18.11.2025ESSAYSAustralian actors keep coming home for horror films and voice roles and nobody has asked whyMARA DENG 22.10.2025TVScrublands sends a journalist to a country town and trusts the silence to do the restRHYS TAVITA 14.10.2025FILMRun Rabbit Run gives Sarah Snook a haunted house and not enough script to fill itBRONTE HAUGHEY 08.10.2025ESSAYSFuriosa and the question of what Australian cinema is allowed to beMARA DENG 18.09.2025MUSICThe score for Territory sounds like the land itself is deciding who inheritsKIERAN BOUSTANY 16.09.2025ESSAYSAustralian cinema keeps filming the outback and forgetting the towns in betweenMARA DENG 08.09.2025INDUSTRYScreen Australia's mid-year data shows a pipeline with gaps in the middleODETTE MALOUF 22.08.2025TVThe Office Australia works because Felicity Ward is not playing a version of anybody elseRHYS TAVITA 18.08.2025MUSICThree scores at MIFF 2025 that earned their silenceKIERAN BOUSTANY 12.08.2025ESSAYSThe cinema is not dying but it is learning to share the roomMARA DENG 30.07.2025INDUSTRYMIFF 2025 sold 155,000 tickets and the maths still does not add upODETTE MALOUF 22.07.2025ESSAYSI watched Samson and Delilah for the first time at thirty-two and I am still not sure I was readyMARA DENG 08.07.2025TVAustralian true-crime TV has run out of ways to say 'based on a true story'RHYS TAVITA 24.06.2025MUSICAustralian sound designers do the work nobody hears and that is the whole pointKIERAN BOUSTANY 16.06.2025ESSAYSWho is Australian cinema for and does it knowMARA DENG 10.06.2025TVAustralian reality TV is screen culture whether the industry likes it or notRHYS TAVITA 22.05.2025INDUSTRYAustralia brought two films to Cannes in 2025 and neither one apologised for being difficultODETTE MALOUF 14.05.2025FILMAustralian horror found an audience and now it has to decide what to do with itBRONTE HAUGHEY 08.05.2025MUSICBetter Man scores Robbie Williams as a CGI monkey and the music has to hold the whole trick togetherKIERAN BOUSTANY 28.04.2025INDUSTRYVictoria, NSW, and Queensland all fund film differently and the results prove itODETTE MALOUF 22.04.2025ESSAYSAustralian novels keep becoming Australian films and the novels keep winningMARA DENG 15.04.2025FILMPhillip Noyce never sat still long enough for Australian cinema to claim himBRONTE HAUGHEY 25.03.2025TVColin from Accounts has the courage to let its characters grow up and it is not sure that was a good ideaRHYS TAVITA 18.03.2025FILMDavid Michod keeps making films about men who destroy what they buildBRONTE HAUGHEY 12.03.2025INDUSTRYAustralian cinema's 2024 awards season by the numbersODETTE MALOUF 26.02.2025ESSAYSThe AACTA ceremony keeps asking Australia to celebrate its own cinema and Australia keeps leaving earlyMARA DENG 24.02.2025FILMAudrey finds the violence inside a suburban house and does not raise its voiceBRONTE HAUGHEY 18.02.2025INDUSTRYMemoir of a Snail's Oscar campaign cost more than the film and that is the system working as designedODETTE MALOUF 12.02.2025MUSICThe APRA Screen Music Awards honoured craft the rest of the industry forgot to watchKIERAN BOUSTANY 22.01.2025TVTerritory wants to be Australia's Yellowstone and it gets close enough to matterRHYS TAVITA 14.01.2025MUSICThe score for Memoir of a Snail moves at the speed of griefKIERAN BOUSTANY 14.01.2025ESSAYSAustralian films premiere in January and arrive in cinemas in October and nobody sees the problemMARA DENG

2024

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22.12.2024FILMAustralia sent a claymation snail to the Oscars and it was the right callBRONTE HAUGHEY 18.12.2024MUSICThe five Australian film scores that defined 2024KIERAN BOUSTANY 10.12.2024ESSAYSAustralian cinema in 2024 was everywhere and nowhere at the same timeMARA DENG 20.11.2024ESSAYSAdam Elliot makes grief out of clay because clay holds its shape when everything else falls apartMARA DENG 18.11.2024INDUSTRYThe AACTA nominations told the industry what it already knew and added one surpriseODETTE MALOUF 06.11.2024FILMAdam Elliot made grief out of clay and it holds its shapeBRONTE HAUGHEY 28.10.2024MUSICLate Night with the Devil designed its horror in the hiss of a live broadcastKIERAN BOUSTANY 22.10.2024TVNautilus built Captain Nemo in Queensland and sent him to sea without enough storyRHYS TAVITA 16.10.2024FILMThe Surfer traps Nicolas Cage on a beach and discovers that the ocean is the real antagonistBRONTE HAUGHEY 08.10.2024INDUSTRYDisney and Paramount are pulling back from Australia and the silence is tellingODETTE MALOUF 24.09.2024MUSICBoy Swallows Universe soundtracks Brisbane in the 1980s with precision and one deliberate lieKIERAN BOUSTANY 16.09.2024FILMBring Him to Me puts Sam Neill in a car and lets the drive do the workBRONTE HAUGHEY 10.09.2024TVBoy Swallows Universe turned a Brisbane memoir into Netflix content and it mostly survivedRHYS TAVITA 26.08.2024INDUSTRYNetflix spent $180 million in Australia in the first half of 2024 and commissioned lessODETTE MALOUF 20.08.2024TVHeartbreak High season two has the confidence to let its characters be wrongRHYS TAVITA 14.08.2024ESSAYSThe Philippou brothers came from YouTube and brought the algorithm's pacing with themMARA DENG 14.08.2024FILMMIFF 2024 programmed for argument and the audience showed up readyBRONTE HAUGHEY 22.07.2024MUSICStreaming put Australian film music on a playlist and took it out of the cinemaKIERAN BOUSTANY 18.07.2024TVTroppo takes the crime novel to Far North Queensland and lets the humidity do the interrogationRHYS TAVITA 10.07.2024FILMWarwick Thornton's quiet argument with the churchBRONTE HAUGHEY 26.06.2024INDUSTRYSydney Film Festival sold out its opening night and struggled to fill the restODETTE MALOUF 18.06.2024ESSAYSKitty Green keeps making films about women watching men decideMARA DENG 12.06.2024TVLast King of the Cross gives Tim Minchin a mullet and a moral code and both suit himRHYS TAVITA 28.05.2024INDUSTRYFuriosa opened to $8.5 million in Australia and the number needs contextODETTE MALOUF 28.05.2024FILMFuriosa opened to a half-empty cinema and the film did not careBRONTE HAUGHEY 22.05.2024MUSICJunkie XL scored Furiosa like an engine that remembers being a heartbeatKIERAN BOUSTANY 14.05.2024TVApples Never Fall proves that Liane Moriarty adaptations work until the last episodeRHYS TAVITA 24.04.2024MUSICThe score for Force of Nature thaws what The Dry kept frozenKIERAN BOUSTANY 22.04.2024FILMLate Night with the Devil put Australian horror on a talk-show set and the audience did not see it comingBRONTE HAUGHEY 15.04.2024INDUSTRYThe Fall Guy spent $200 million in New South Wales and left with the negativesODETTE MALOUF 20.03.2024INDUSTRYThe Australian screen workforce lost 4,200 people in two years and the pipeline has not noticedODETTE MALOUF 18.03.2024ESSAYSShayda shows what migration feels like from inside the refuge and does not translateMARA DENG 14.03.2024FILMForce of Nature proves Eric Bana can carry a franchise nobody expectedBRONTE HAUGHEY 12.03.2024TVTotal Control season two raises the stakes and Deborah Mailman raises them higherRHYS TAVITA 22.02.2024INDUSTRYStan's subscriber number is not the whole storyODETTE MALOUF 20.02.2024ESSAYSAnyone But You made $220 million and Australian cinema still does not know what to do with thatMARA DENG 12.02.2024FILMAnyone But You made $220 million by treating Sydney like a postcard and the audience like it was 2003BRONTE HAUGHEY 30.01.2024TVFisk season three still works because Kitty Flanagan refuses to let Helen be likeableRHYS TAVITA 30.01.2024MUSICTwo Australian scores landed at Sundance in 2024 and the festival did not noticeKIERAN BOUSTANY 22.01.2024INDUSTRYThe 2023 Australian box office told two stories and believed neitherODETTE MALOUF 16.01.2024FILMThe Rooster puts a man in the outback and strips away every reason to stayBRONTE HAUGHEY

2023

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20.12.2023MUSICThe five Australian film scores that shaped 2023KIERAN BOUSTANY 12.12.2023MUSICThe score for Shayda sounds like a lullaby sung through a locked doorKIERAN BOUSTANY 04.12.2023TVDeadloch proves that Tasmania can do noir if you let comedians write itRHYS TAVITA 22.11.2023FILMThe Royal Hotel fills a pub with men and dares you to name which one is dangerousBRONTE HAUGHEY 14.11.2023TVThe Lost Flowers of Alice Hart cannot decide if it trusts its audienceRHYS TAVITA 08.11.2023INDUSTRYStan's original content slate shrank by a third and the strategy behind it is silenceODETTE MALOUF 24.10.2023TVSafe Home puts a refugee family in suburban Tasmania and watches the neighbours reactRHYS TAVITA 18.10.2023ESSAYSThe Australian western keeps returning to the frontier because the frontier never leftMARA DENG 10.10.2023FILMSweet As sends a teenager into the Pilbara with a camera and does not tell her what to findBRONTE HAUGHEY 04.10.2023MUSICThe Royal Hotel scores its danger in what it refuses to playKIERAN BOUSTANY 28.09.2023TVThe Artful Dodger puts a surgeon's scalpel in a pickpocket's hand and hopes you will not noticeRHYS TAVITA 22.09.2023FILMShayda finds freedom in a women's refuge and does not romanticise itBRONTE HAUGHEY 18.09.2023INDUSTRYScreen Australia's 2022-23 annual report buried the interesting number on page forty-sevenODETTE MALOUF 28.08.2023FILMFoe builds a marriage out of wheat fields and then replaces the husbandBRONTE HAUGHEY 24.08.2023INDUSTRYAustralian production hit its 2023 peak in August and the pipeline was already coolingODETTE MALOUF 20.08.2023TVThe Newsreader keeps getting the small things wrong on purposeRHYS TAVITA 14.08.2023FILMIvan Sen shot Limbo in black and white and the outback answered in greyBRONTE HAUGHEY 28.07.2023INDUSTRYMIFF sold 148,000 tickets in 2023 and the margin was thinner than everODETTE MALOUF 18.07.2023MUSICThe Deadloch soundtrack freezes the crime scene and then plays indie rock over itKIERAN BOUSTANY 04.07.2023ESSAYSSydney Film Festival is a room full of strangers agreeing to sit still togetherMARA DENG 22.06.2023MUSICCornel Wilczek scored Talk to Me like a party that will not let you leaveKIERAN BOUSTANY 20.06.2023TVNeighbours came back from the dead and brought its cul-de-sac with itRHYS TAVITA 08.06.2023ESSAYSIvan Sen stripped Limbo of colour and found everything underneathMARA DENG 28.05.2023MUSICThe score for Godless drags the exorcism through the dirt and leaves it thereKIERAN BOUSTANY 24.05.2023INDUSTRYAustralia sent three films to Cannes in 2023 and each one argued a different caseODETTE MALOUF 22.05.2023TVClass of '07 locks its reunion in an apocalypse and finds the comedy in the floodRHYS TAVITA 16.05.2023FILMTalk to Me found Australian horror's nerve and held itBRONTE HAUGHEY 26.04.2023ESSAYSEvery Australian true-crime adaptation asks permission from the audience and not from the deadMARA DENG 18.04.2023MUSICThe score for Blaze chases the animation and catches it in a different keyKIERAN BOUSTANY 12.04.2023FILMThomas M. Wright built The Stranger out of silenceBRONTE HAUGHEY 28.03.2023TVWellmania lets Celeste Barber be terrible and that is its best decisionRHYS TAVITA 22.03.2023ESSAYSAustralian women on screen in 2023 were allowed to be difficult and the work was better for itMARA DENG 14.03.2023FILMBlueback turns an ocean conservation story into something the reef can holdBRONTE HAUGHEY 08.03.2023INDUSTRYScreen NSW handed out $18 million and the mid-budget feature got the smallest shareODETTE MALOUF 28.02.2023ESSAYSAustralian cinema keeps building cults because the country keeps producing themMARA DENG 20.02.2023MUSICBaz Luhrmann re-scored Australia and called it Faraway DownsKIERAN BOUSTANY 14.02.2023TVThe Clearing gives Guy Pearce a cult and Teresa Palmer a conscience and watches what happensRHYS TAVITA 26.01.2023FILMFrances O'Connor stepped behind the camera and made a Bronte film that trusts the windBRONTE HAUGHEY 19.01.2023TVThe Tourist treats the outback like a character who does not speakRHYS TAVITA 16.01.2023INDUSTRYAustralian cinema attendance recovered to 78 per cent of pre-COVID levels and then stoppedODETTE MALOUF 10.01.2023MUSICThe score for You Won't Be Alone sounds like soil remembering rainKIERAN BOUSTANY

2022

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20.12.2022ESSAYSAustralian cinema in 2022 made the difficult films and then struggled to show themMARA DENG 14.12.2022FILMSeriously Red puts a real estate agent in rhinestones and dares you to careBRONTE HAUGHEY 08.12.2022MUSICBaz Luhrmann uses music the way other directors use architectureKIERAN BOUSTANY 22.11.2022ESSAYSAustralian horror found its voice by refusing to be politeMARA DENG 22.11.2022INDUSTRYThe AACTA nominations went where the industry expected and that is the problemODETTE MALOUF 14.11.2022MUSICThe score for The Stranger carries the weight the actors are not allowed to showKIERAN BOUSTANY 26.10.2022ESSAYSHollywood keeps filming in Australia and asking Australia to pretend it is somewhere elseMARA DENG 18.10.2022FILMNude Tuesday speaks a language nobody understands and that is the whole experimentBRONTE HAUGHEY 18.10.2022INDUSTRYNetflix spent $300 million in Australia and the question is what it boughtODETTE MALOUF 26.09.2022INDUSTRYAustralia sent four films to Toronto in 2022 and three of them soldODETTE MALOUF 20.09.2022ESSAYSQueer Australian cinema found a new register and it sounds like tendernessMARA DENG 14.09.2022FILMThree Thousand Years of Longing is George Miller arguing with himself in a hotel roomBRONTE HAUGHEY 06.09.2022MUSICJed Kurzel scores the silence inside NitramKIERAN BOUSTANY 22.08.2022ESSAYSHeartbreak High came back and I realised I was no longer the target audienceMARA DENG 16.08.2022MUSICThe score for Gold keeps one note going until the desert swallows itKIERAN BOUSTANY 08.08.2022TVBump is the most honest show about Western Sydney and nobody outside Bankstown knows it existsRHYS TAVITA 26.07.2022TVUnder the Vines is a postcard from New Zealand that Australia co-signedRHYS TAVITA 20.07.2022ESSAYSAustralian coming-of-age films keep growing up in the wrong suburbsMARA DENG 14.07.2022FILMOf an Age finds tenderness in the back seat of a car in FootscrayBRONTE HAUGHEY 12.07.2022INDUSTRYSydney Film Festival 2022 sold out the State Theatre and struggled to fill everything elseODETTE MALOUF 28.06.2022FILMHow to Please a Woman asks a question Australian cinema rarely allows its women to answerBRONTE HAUGHEY 20.06.2022INDUSTRYThe local content quota fight that nobody is winningODETTE MALOUF 16.06.2022TVSpreadsheet keeps a sex spreadsheet and the joke is that the data never liesRHYS TAVITA 30.05.2022MUSICThe score for How to Please a Woman plays it straight and the comedy plays better for itKIERAN BOUSTANY 24.05.2022TVIrreverent puts a Chicago criminal in a Queensland church and lets the accent do the restRHYS TAVITA 18.05.2022INDUSTRYThe AACTAs went to Nitram and The Dry and the audience still was not watchingODETTE MALOUF 10.05.2022FILMBlaze paints its trauma in colours that refuse to behaveBRONTE HAUGHEY 26.04.2022MUSICThe score for Wyrmwood: Apocalypse treats the end of the world like a pub brawlKIERAN BOUSTANY 20.04.2022INDUSTRYAustralian film's gender parity numbers improved and the mid-budget gap stayed the sameODETTE MALOUF 12.04.2022TVThe Twelve asks twelve Australians to agree and then watches them failRHYS TAVITA 28.03.2022MUSICSpiderhead was scored in the space between pleasure and controlKIERAN BOUSTANY 22.03.2022FILMGold buries Zac Efron in the desert and dares you to watch him digBRONTE HAUGHEY 15.03.2022INDUSTRYScreen Australia's $212 million year and the question nobody askedODETTE MALOUF 08.03.2022ESSAYSAustralian women directors stopped waiting for permission and started making the difficult filmsMARA DENG 22.02.2022TVFires dramatised the 2019 bushfires before the country had finished processing themRHYS TAVITA 16.02.2022INDUSTRYMEAA negotiated new crew rates and the independent sector said it could not afford themODETTE MALOUF 10.02.2022ESSAYSAblaze searches for films that were never meant to survive and finds them anywayMARA DENG 24.01.2022TVEden drops a backpacker thriller in Byron Bay and lets the paradise rot from the insideRHYS TAVITA 18.01.2022FILMThe Dry gives Eric Bana a landscape and lets him stand in itBRONTE HAUGHEY 18.01.2022ESSAYSThe Sapphires proved that feel-good Australian cinema can be political without announcing itMARA DENG 10.01.2022MUSICThe score for Love Me sits so close to the characters you can hear them breatheKIERAN BOUSTANY

2021

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22.12.2021FILMThe five Australian films of 2021 that will still matter in a decadeBRONTE HAUGHEY 16.12.2021INDUSTRYThe 2021 production pipeline closed with $1.8 billion in activity and a crew shortageODETTE MALOUF 14.12.2021ESSAYS2021 was the year Australian cinema got serious and the audience looked awayMARA DENG 24.11.2021TVWentworth ran for nine seasons and never once apologised for being a prison showRHYS TAVITA 18.11.2021FILMNitram refuses to look away and refuses to explain whyBRONTE HAUGHEY 08.11.2021MUSICPeter Raeburn scored The Dry with heat and the absence of waterKIERAN BOUSTANY 20.10.2021MUSICThe score for High Ground maps the frontier in two musical languagesKIERAN BOUSTANY 12.10.2021INDUSTRYThe Location Incentive brought Hollywood to Australia and the question is who benefitsODETTE MALOUF 12.10.2021TVBump dropped a baby into Bankstown and did not explain itselfRHYS TAVITA 28.09.2021MUSICThe score for June Again knows exactly when to stop playingKIERAN BOUSTANY 22.09.2021FILMJune Again gives Noni Hazlehurst a second chance and does not waste it on sentimentBRONTE HAUGHEY 14.09.2021TVClickbait was made in Melbourne for a global audience and it showsRHYS TAVITA 26.08.2021TVNine Perfect Strangers and the wellness retreat that eats itselfRHYS TAVITA 18.08.2021ESSAYSThe wellness industry became content and nobody noticed the transactionMARA DENG 10.08.2021INDUSTRYThe mid-2021 box office recovered to 62 per cent and the ceiling was already visibleODETTE MALOUF 28.07.2021TVLove Me gives Hugo Weaving a dating app and watches him try to be humanRHYS TAVITA 20.07.2021FILMMIFF went hybrid in 2021 and discovered what a festival cannot streamBRONTE HAUGHEY 14.07.2021ESSAYSPenguin Bloom tells a disability story and the magpie gets the better arcMARA DENG 08.07.2021INDUSTRYSFF 2021 went hybrid and discovered the audience prefers the cinema to the couchODETTE MALOUF 22.06.2021MUSICCezary Skubiszewski has been scoring Australia's conscience for twenty yearsKIERAN BOUSTANY 16.06.2021FILMNitram premiered at Cannes and nobody in the room was comfortableBRONTE HAUGHEY 08.06.2021INDUSTRYAustralian production restarted at two speeds and the gap between them is wideningODETTE MALOUF 26.05.2021FILMHere Out West built Western Sydney from eight directors and one shared streetBRONTE HAUGHEY 18.05.2021TVWhy Are You Like This is the angriest comedy on ABC and it knows exactly who it is yelling atRHYS TAVITA 04.05.2021MUSICMortal Kombat was built in Adelaide and it sounds like a city trying to punch above its weightKIERAN BOUSTANY 22.04.2021MUSICThe score for Penguin Bloom knows the bird is carrying the emotionKIERAN BOUSTANY 20.04.2021ESSAYSHigh Ground walks the frontier and does not pretend to own the viewMARA DENG 14.04.2021INDUSTRYScreen Australia's $50 million recovery fund arrived and the fine print told the real storyODETTE MALOUF 14.04.2021FILMACMI reopened and the new exhibition treats the screen as a surface worth touchingBRONTE HAUGHEY 24.03.2021ESSAYSAustralian cinema keeps going back to drought because drought never really leftMARA DENG 22.03.2021TVFrayed season two brings Sarah Kendall back to Newcastle and the cringe back to ABCRHYS TAVITA 16.03.2021FILMPenguin Bloom brings Naomi Watts home and does not know what to do with herBRONTE HAUGHEY 10.03.2021INDUSTRYScreen Australia's supplementary COVID fund filled a gap and created a queueODETTE MALOUF 28.02.2021MUSICNick Cave and Warren Ellis made Carnage in a locked room and it sounds like itKIERAN BOUSTANY 24.02.2021TVHarrow keeps solving murders in Brisbane and Brisbane keeps looking good doing itRHYS TAVITA 18.02.2021ESSAYSThe couch became the cinema and I am not sure it gave it backMARA DENG 16.02.2021FILMRams gives Sam Neill and Michael Caton a flock of sheep and nothing left to say to each otherBRONTE HAUGHEY 26.01.2021TVMr Inbetween ended the way its hitman would have wanted: quietly and without apologyRHYS TAVITA 20.01.2021ESSAYSRewatching Rabbit-Proof Fence and realising the fence was never the pointMARA DENG 18.01.2021INDUSTRYJobKeeper ended and the screen industry is counting who is leftODETTE MALOUF 12.01.2021FILMThe Australian films worth anticipating in 2021BRONTE HAUGHEY

2020

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28.12.2020ESSAYSThe year ended and I still had not gone back to the cinemaMARA DENG 18.12.2020TVThe best Australian TV of 2020 was made for people who could not leave the houseRHYS TAVITA 10.12.2020MUSICRelic lets the house do the talkingKIERAN BOUSTANY 24.11.2020FILMI Am Woman lets Helen Reddy sing and then buries her in biopic formulaBRONTE HAUGHEY 18.11.2020TVThe Gloaming set a murder mystery in Hobart and let the cold do the workRHYS TAVITA 12.11.2020ESSAYSWatching Picnic at Hanging Rock in a room I could not leaveMARA DENG 28.10.2020MUSICThe score for Rams sounds like two men who share a fence line and nothing elseKIERAN BOUSTANY 22.10.2020INDUSTRYDrive-in cinemas came back during COVID and the nostalgia lasted exactly one summerODETTE MALOUF 14.10.2020TVTotal Control gives Deborah Mailman the prime ministership and then makes her fight for every roomRHYS TAVITA 22.09.2020INDUSTRYThe COVID production insurance gap cost Australian cinema $120 million in paused projectsODETTE MALOUF 16.09.2020ESSAYSRewatching Lantana in lockdown and noticing what the neighbours hearMARA DENG 08.09.2020TVUpright is the best Australian road show nobody outside this country has seenRHYS TAVITA 20.08.2020MUSICAmanda Brown scored Babyteeth like a body that knows it is running out of timeKIERAN BOUSTANY 18.08.2020INDUSTRYCOVID Safe protocols cost $800,000 per production and nobody knows who is payingODETTE MALOUF 12.08.2020ESSAYSWhat happens when a country stops making new films for six monthsMARA DENG 28.07.2020TVStateless crossed the Pacific via Netflix and the conversation changedRHYS TAVITA 22.07.2020INDUSTRYJobKeeper kept the screen industry alive and nobody wants to talk about what happens nextODETTE MALOUF 14.07.2020ESSAYSHow do you write about cinema when you cannot go to the cinemaMARA DENG 26.06.2020MUSICAustralian musicians played to laptop cameras and the sound changedKIERAN BOUSTANY 22.06.2020FILMBabyteeth arrived in cinemas at exactly the wrong moment and deserved betterBRONTE HAUGHEY 14.06.2020TVWhat we watched when everything stoppedRHYS TAVITA 26.05.2020INDUSTRYAustralian cinema exhibition lost $340 million in the first quarter and the count is not overODETTE MALOUF 18.05.2020TVStateless arrived at exactly the wrong time and that made it necessaryRHYS TAVITA 12.05.2020FILMTrue History of the Kelly Gang sets the myth on fire and films the ashesBRONTE HAUGHEY 28.04.2020MUSICAustralian composers spent lockdown scoring podcasts and games and it changed how they workKIERAN BOUSTANY 22.04.2020ESSAYSThe empty cinema down the roadMARA DENG 16.04.2020TVSix Australian shows worth finding while the cinemas are closedRHYS TAVITA 26.03.2020INDUSTRYEvery cinema in Australia closed in March and the industry counted what was leftODETTE MALOUF 18.03.2020MUSICThe last Australian film scores released before cinemas closedKIERAN BOUSTANY 04.03.2020ESSAYSBabyteeth and the dignity of falling apart in publicMARA DENG 22.02.2020MUSICFive Australian screen composers to listen for in 2020KIERAN BOUSTANY 18.02.2020INDUSTRYThe 2019 Australian box office in five numbersODETTE MALOUF 14.02.2020INDUSTRYThe Australian screen industry in February 2020 was about to have the best year of its lifeODETTE MALOUF 08.02.2020FILMThe Australian films worth tracking in 2020BRONTE HAUGHEY 04.02.2020TVMystery Road and the quiet business of not explainingRHYS TAVITA 28.01.2020MUSICJed Kurzel turned the Kelly Gang into a punk songKIERAN BOUSTANY 22.01.2020TVWhat Australian television has coming in 2020 and why you should careRHYS TAVITA 18.01.2020FILMThe Nightingale and the wound that will not closeBRONTE HAUGHEY 14.01.2020ESSAYSWe started a magazine about Australian cinema because somebody had toMARA DENG