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[CATE-BLANCHETT]
ESSAYS№ 01
Cate Blanchett keeps one foot in Australia and Australian cinema keeps asking her to put it down
Blanchett produces Australian work, funds Australian stories, and has not starred in an Australian film in over a decade, and nobody quite knows how to talk about that.
MARA DENG18.03.2026
ESSAYS№ 02
Australian actors keep coming home for horror films and voice roles and nobody has asked why
The biggest Australian actors return to local cinema for the roles Hollywood does not offer them, and the pattern says something about both industries.
MARA DENG18.11.2025
FILM№ 03
Warwick Thornton's quiet argument with the church
Thornton photographs faith the way he photographs landscape: patiently, without commentary, and with an eye for what the light reveals about what is missing.
BRONTE HAUGHEY10.07.2024
TV№ 04
Stateless arrived at exactly the wrong time and that made it necessary
A show about immigration detention centres premiered during a pandemic lockdown, and somehow the timing made it more urgent rather than less.
RHYS TAVITA18.05.2020