Films
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David Attenborough documentary The Year Earth Changed suggests silver lining ahead of Earth Day 2021
The video turned out to be fake – but it’s undeniable that the global lockdown has given nature a reset.…
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The Father movie review: Superb, low-key film captures the profound heartache of ageing
The Father is not flashy. Wenlei Ma news.com.au It doesn’t have gunfights, a rousing monologue or an epic historical ……
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‘I’m just trying to stay alive’: as the end approaches, David Gulpilil is feted one more time
Now the other “white fellas medicine” – immunotherapy – has had to stop too. Garry Maddox WAtoday David Gulpilil knows…
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Reaching African audiences in their mother tongue: one film’s ongoing legacy
Across the continent, though, millions of school pupils aren’t taught in their mother tongue. Nick Higgins The Conversation Zambia, for…
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How historically accurate is the film High Ground? The violence it depicts is uncomfortably close to the truth
It is a fictionalised story, inspired, says director Stephen Maxwell Johnson, by “true history”. Authors: The Conversation At times, the…
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Sound of Music star Christopher Plummer dead at 91
“The world has lost a consummate actor today and I have lost a cherished friend,” Andrews said in a statement.…
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Film review: in My Salinger Year, hope and optimism win out
Rakoff’s sole responsibility was to read the constant stream of fan mail sent to its most famous client, JD Salinger,…
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From Nitram to Penguin Bloom: Australian films to look out for in 2021
With the taste of Christmas lunch and festive beverages still lingering on our palettes, it’s time to embrace the possibilities…
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Review: David Byrne’s American Utopia is a film honouring the love of the live performance
We had travelled south from Brisbane to see show number 141 of a 143-date world tour of David Byrne’s American…
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‘A state of wonder’: the day our little lion man finally arrived
We travelled by taxi to a nearby Travelodge, John and I each holding one of Saroo’s hands as he sat…
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From B student to billionaire: the man who built Netflix
Dispassionate sackings. Konrad Marshall Good Weekend in The Age “Sunshining” failure. Reed Hastings, the man who built the world’s most…
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Guide to the Classics: The Secret Garden and the healing power of nature
First published in 1911, after being serialised in The American Magazine, it was dismissed by one critic at the time…
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Ennio Morricone: a versatile composer with a distinct sound
The maestro left this world on July 6 but his work is sure to move generations of music and film…
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In My Blood It Runs challenges the ‘inevitability’ of Indigenous youth incarceration
As he sat by his father’s side, he stated the purpose of his visit: Lilly Brown The Conversation I come…
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‘Just Mercy’ is now free to stream through June to help educate people on systemic racism
“Just Mercy,” released in theaters on January 10, tells the true story of Bryan Stevenson (Jordan), a civil-rights attorney who…
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Five films that explore what it feels like to truly grieve
Most of us know what the characters on screen are going through, we understand the disorientating swell of feelings and…
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