Spectrum
From steampunk dress-ups to cyborg lovers, films capture our growing unease
This year’s SciFi Film Festival looks at life beyond the everyday.
- by Jake Wilson
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While we’ve been sleeping: art offers guidance in the last days of lockdown
From nocturnal drawings to tantalising hints of telepathy, mysterious things have happened during our long and strange slumber.
- by Andrew Stephens
The tricky business of airing privilege in the office
When talking about what you did on the weekend is concealing your happiness better for everyone?
- by Anson Cameron
‘There’s something going on’: spooky chemistry fuels Lior’s vocal partnership
Lior and Domini found enough magic in communion to sustain them through isolation.
- by Michael Dwyer
Cousin Greg as the next Logan Roy? Nicholas Braun on playing the man least likely
The Succession star has turned his character into a (bumbling) one to watch.
- by Dave Itzkoff
Mum wanted me to be a black Tammy Wynette: Emma Donovan
Bluesy, jazzy and soulful, Emma Donovan is one of Australia’s finest artists - and one of its most charming.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
New York, 1967, Warhol, the Velvets: ‘As if you were really there’
Todd Haynes’ documentary puts viewers inside the moment that changed music forever.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
Pandemic ‘gave me time to create’: Baker Boy takes ‘another big step’
Topping off his grand final moment, the Yolngu artist releases his debut album next week.
- by Daniel James
What will I do when lockdown ends? Go and see the world’s worst film
Like The Blues Brothers and The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Room is an experience best shared.
- by Monica Dux
Lewinsky documentary unpacks our culture of online public shaming
Monica Lewinsky, who knows better than most what it’s like to be publicly shamed, co-produces this compelling documentary on the rise of “cancel culture”.
- by Kylie Northover
Flawed but fascinating: Netflix’s Que Minh Luu on TV’s grey areas
She calls herself an “executive bumhead”, but the director of Australian content for the streaming giant has a big say in what its 5 million local subscribers will be watching.
- by Louise Rugendyke