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Satire on ’70s psychics will please horror-movie and nostalgia buffs
Inspired by Don Lane, the American who dominated the Australian chat show in the mid-’70s and early ’80s, Late Night with the Devil hits the right notes.
- by Sandra Hall
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Bridget Jones is back, but widowed. And with a hot new love interest
In the fourth instalment of the franchise, Hugh Grant’s Daniel Cleaver is back from the dead. But there’s bad news for fans of Colin Firth’s Mr Darcy.
- by Thomas Mitchell
Even Martin Scorsese can make a bad film, and this one’s his worst
The filmmaker’s 2002 epic is the cinematic equivalent of a tabloid paper.
- by Sandra Hall
‘I’m no longer the person who feels like they shouldn’t be at the party’: Kirsten Dunst
She’s been a movie star since she was 11, but it’s only now, 30 years later, that the actor feels that she’s arrived.
- by Michael Idato
Take your seats: The 14 new movies we can’t wait to see
From sequels to reboots, rom-coms and Ryan Gosling, consider this your must-see list for the next few months.
- by Louise Rugendyke
Don Lane, the Devil, and why Aussie horror is taking over the world
Hot on the heels of breakout hit Talk To Me, Late Night With the Devil is the latest Aussie horror flick to attract worldwide buzz, and box office results.
- by Karl Quinn
★½
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This war movie is based on actual Anzac diaries – so why doesn’t it ring true?
Despite all of the effort put in to the look of this ambitious production I ultimately had trouble suspending disbelief.
- by Jake Wilson
This film was a critical and festival hit. I can’t understand how
Part biopic, part polemic, Ava DuVernay’s new film Origin has an undeniably powerful moment, but it’s hardly revelatory.
- by Sandra Hall
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Filmmaker Rachel Perkins to chair prestigious arts school at ‘crisis point’
The stakes are make or break. AFTRS is one of eight colleges warning of a looming financial crunch impacting skills training ahead of the next federal budget.
- by Linda Morris
Mark Ruffalo on the ‘evil’ company that poisoned every person on the planet – then kept it secret
The Hollywood actor will feature in a new Stan documentary exposing how 3M’s “forever chemicals” have sparked a worldwide contamination catastrophe.
- by Michael Idato
Bollywood meets Batman and John Wick: Monkey Man is a genre-blending blast
Dev Patel’s directorial debut is a bold, political and daring action film that pays homage to Hong Kong martial arts films of the 1980s and ’90s.
- by Jake Wilson