My piece on how the new federal budget may affect the Australian film industry appeared in the arts opinion column Canvas in The Age and The
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Film review – Mad Bastards (2010)
TJ (Dean Daley-Jones) is a mad bastard. Full of attitude and prone to aggressive outbursts, TJ travels over 2000 kilometres to see Bullet (Lucas Yeeda), his
An interview with Brendan Fletcher, the writer/director of Mad Bastards
Brendan Fletcher is the writer and director of Mad Bastards, a new Australian feature film that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and is set
Film review – The Reef (2010)
Alfred Hitchcock once explained the nature of suspense by describing a scenario where the audience see a bomb being planted and therefore knowing that during
Film review – Wasted on the Young (2010)
The teen film has a long tradition of using the politics and social hierarchies of the schoolyard to comment on the adult world. Romance, friendship,
DVD review – The Lost Thing (2010), Region 4, Madman
Australian author and illustrator Shaun Tan makes his directorial debut (along with co-director Andrew Ruhemann) with this animated short adapted from Tan’s acclaimed picture book.
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