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April, 2024
Netflix’s adaptation of Liu Cixin’s hard sci-fi novel, from the creators of ‘Game of Thrones’ and ‘True Blood’, is sentimentalised but easily digestible
April, 2024
Remembering Australian film and TV great Michael Jenkins, creator of ‘Scales of Justice’ and ‘Blue Murder’, and the Ned Kelly film that got away
March, 2024
‘Feud – Capote vs. The Swans’ delivers camp absurdity
Plus, Ukraine through its people’s eyes, new Australian comedy on show, and ‘Shōgun’ returns in full gory glory
March, 2024
How the Australian screenwriter of ‘Poor Things’, who cut his teeth on shows such as ‘The Secret Life of Us’, earnt his second Oscar nomination
February, 2024
In ‘House of Gods’, Sydney’s Muslim community gets to be complicated
Plus, Barnaby Joyce shines in ‘Nemesis’, Emma Seligman and Rachel Sennott deliver ‘Bottoms’, and Chloë Sevigny and Molly Ringwald step up for ‘Feud: Capote vs. The Swans’.
February, 2024
The magical realism in Netflix’s adaptation of Trent Dalton’s bestselling novel derails its tender portrayal of family drama in 1980s Brisbane’s suburban fringe
January, 2024
‘Expats’ drills down on Hong Kong’s class divide
Plus, Netflix swallows Trent Dalton, Deborah Mailman remains in ‘Total Control’ and ‘Vanderpump Rules’ returns for another season
December, 2023
‘Strife’ is a rollicking, if shallow, look at 2010s women’s media
Plus, a girl-band rises to the top in ‘Paper Dolls’, heartwarming family dysfunction returns in the fourth season of ‘Bump’, and the Stan documentary about Ben Roberts-Smith delves into his defamation case against the media
December, 2023
Nathan Fielder directs and co-stars in an erratic comedy about the performative benevolence of a couple creating a social housing reality TV show
October, 2023
Korean folklore comes to Western Sydney in ‘Night Bloomers’
Plus, the infamous 1970s London haunting is recreated in ‘The Enfield Poltergeist’, queer ghost hunters unite in ‘Living for the Dead’, and more