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Jerry Lewis – A Personal Tribute

Given the formidable heft of his legend, it was quite a relief to take my seat opposite Jerry Lewis – ...
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Latest Movies & Streaming

  • Veteran director Ken Loach’s swansong ‘The Old Oak’ strikes social-realist gold with a touching tale of acceptance and division

  • ‘Trolls Band Together’ a passable, if overly speedy kids’ animated time killer; ‘Bottoms’, a dismal stab at social satire

  • ‘The Royal Hotel’: Another Aussie film with third act issues stumbles at the finish line: ‘The Musical Mind’ is a fine doc from Scott Hicks, but feel too much like a DVD bonus feature

  • ‘Napoleon’: Ridley Scott’s epic biopic is a entralling, entertaining triumph of big-screen, old-school cinema

  • REVIEWS: Absorbing, dark adult mystery in ‘Saltburn’; More quality horror with ‘Thanksgiving’; ‘Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’ is drab and way too long; ‘Quiz Lady’, a top comedy about game show obsession; Michael Fassbender delivers in ‘The Killer’

Latest Interviews

  • Melbourne homeless – interviews with the invisible

  • EXHIBITION Alexander McQueen: Mind, Mythos, Muse @ NGV – Showcasing one of the most creative and controversial fashion designers of the 20th century – Overview & Review

  • Having spent 10 years making it, director Rob Murphy discusses ‘Splice Here’, his love letter to old-school film and the impact the onset of digital has had on the defiant community of projectionists

  • REVIEW/INTERVIEW: ‘Surrogate’, another taut Aussie tale of terror; director David Willing discusses the film’s style and the disciplines of making a low-budget movie

  • Blending Gen Z themes with an old-school sensibility and a love of practical gore effects for the knockout horror-comedy ‘Sissy’ – Interview with writer/directors Hannah Barlow & Kane Senes

Latest Articles & Commentary

  • What killed ‘Yes’: The only piece about the Voice referendum you’ll ever need to read (includes Lando Calrissian and Macarena references)

  • ‘Barbie’ has enjoyed huge box-office success, but widespread reports that it rules the roost over the Warner Bros. catalogue are a tad dubious. Just ask Regan MacNeil.

  • The BBC’s shambolic interview with Andrew Tate shows – yet again – just how far TV journalism has deteriorated

  • Full of top action and sporting a surprisingly emotional story, ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3’ is both a rollicking, above-average Marvel sequel and a sound backhander to the withering era of WokeThink and Cancel Culture

  • Melbourne homeless – interviews with the invisible

Latest Comedy

  • Out of the frying pan: veteran comedian Mandy Nolan explains the motives and meaning behind her jump into politics in her new show ‘The Candidate’

  • An unfiltered post-gig interview with Australian comedian Amos Gill: now based in the US he explains why he left, why he’s gone off doing festivals and where he stands on left-leaning stand-up comedy

  • In ‘Disgraceful’, Lucy Best recounts her naughty personal history, confronting issues of anxiety & misplaced shame; review/interview

  • “Comedy is my way of making us all feel human together, because you can’t laugh with someone and hate them at the same time.”: Alice Fraser review & interview

  • Hard work still feels like play and experience has made stress a smaller issue for comedy festival fixture Simon Taylor: review/interview

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