Film & TV
This stunning documentary from Aotearoa New Zealand invites viewers to join Indigenous elders on a five-day canoe trip down the first river in the world to be granted legal personhood.
Film & TV
Saoirse Ronan plays a mother searching for her missing son during the World War II London Blitz in this Steve McQueen film that is surprisingly conventional but has a racially-aware edge.
French director Jacques Audiard has set to music an extraordinary story about a transgender narco boss in corrupt Mexico City who becomes the woman of his dreams, helped by a lawyer looking for a purpose.
An arthouse satire about the male gaze becomes a boisterous Russian black comedy that transforms into a slyly charming story about a smart sex worker who falls for the wrong dream.
Director Kriv Stenders keeps the tension high in this gripping film about the ordeal of jailed foreign correspondent Peter Greste which had its world premiere at the gala opening of the 2024 Adelaide Film Festival.
New western Territory, filmed in the Northern Territory and South Australia, follows a family at war over who will run the world’s largest cattle station in the unforgiving outback. At its helm is the director of Wolf Creek and croc horror Rogue.
Film & TV
This film about model and photographer Lee Miller, who followed the US military to the frontlines of World War II, is messy but embodies some hard truths.
Film & TV
Celebrated German actor Lars Eidinger picks up the conductor’s baton for his role in the searing family drama Dying, a highlight of this year’s Adelaide Film Festival. He talks to InReview about the film, and how a previous visit to SA broadened his horizons.
SBS’s new drama Four Years Later is not just an Indian-Australian love story but also a closeted feminist coming-of-age tale that counters stereotypes and holds appeal for a diverse TV audience.
In a love story set to music, the Joker puts on a happy face and goes to court for committing mass murder on live TV.
Inspired by a true story, this romanticised tribute to the humanity of a crew of wartime submariners celebrates Italian cultural identity.
Whether you’re in the mood for romance, documentary or a murder mystery, October’s streaming selection has plenty of entertaining options.
Film & TV
New true-crime series Monsters tries to tackle the twisted case of the Menéndez brothers who murdered their parents, but it ends up turning a family tragedy into a cheap spectacle.
Film & TV
You may not have heard of John Simpson but this sound expert – who works out of a shed in Quorn – has collaborated on films and TV shows including Mad Max: Fury Road, Storm Boy, The Adventures of Tintin and Neighbours. He tells InReview he has been acutely attuned to the sounds around him since he was a teenager.
This year’s Adelaide Film Festival will transport audiences from a prison cell in Egypt, to the snow-covered Himalayan mountains, the streets of Mexico and even outer space as it presents more than 100 films from 46 countries.
SA arts & culture news in brief: Another leadership change in SA’s arts sector, State Theatre makes the first announcement of its 2025 season, a stockroom art sale at GAGPROJECTS, happy hour meets the symphony, winning artworks celebrate beauty, and a valuable new youth arts resource.
Our European film correspondent caught up with Australian film director Peter Weir, who has been honoured at this year’s Venice Film Festival.
The Juice is loose in this quirky return of the original ghostbuster and freelance poltergeist, Beetlejuice, who is back from the dead, again, to help the next generation.
Documentaries both old and new shine in this month’s streaming picks, including Steve McQueen’s chilling epic about wartime Amsterdam and a fascinating film about the chaos surrounding the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now.
More thoughtful than just another story of robots running amok, this film about a family’s relationship with next-gen AI comes with a message about the perils of modern life.
Actor Sam Neill is the first celebrity interviewee in the hot seat in The Assembly, a new ABC TV show featuring a group of autistic journalism students mentored by Leigh Sales that challenges stereotypes and offers some valuable lessons for workplaces.
A movie based on the ‘Kafkaesque nightmare’ endured by Australian war correspondent Peter Greste after his arrest in Egypt in 2013 will open this year’s Adelaide Film Festival, with Greste and star Richard Roxburgh both set to attend the world premiere screening at Piccadilly Cinemas.
Comedian, actor and self-described ‘urban girl’ Susie Youssef explores new territory – including two spectacular South Australian locations – as she teams up with Julia Zemiro and Gina Chick for the latest season of Great Australian Walks.
The global boom in Nordic noir focused on Denmark and Sweden but has spread beyond to include the smaller countries of Finland, Norway and Iceland, with all five in the spotlight during this year’s Scandinavian Film Festival.
Austin Butler, Tom Hardy and Jodie Comer shine in a 1960s period piece about a Chicago motorcycle club that makes the booze, drugs, knife fights and arson look like the good old days.
SA-born actor Sharon Johal was excited to be able to draw on her Punjabi Sikh roots for her role in award-winning TV drama The Twelve, which returns this month with a fresh murder trial set in rural Western Australia.
It’s a new take on the shaggy dog story as Colin From Accounts returns for a second series, intent on winning more hearts.
Film & TV
Filmmaker Pete Williams honours a lost place and time with his low-budget feature made with community support and good intentions that wants to celebrate Australian ordinariness.
Film & TV
An impoverished war hero determined to rise above his origins and farm Denmark’s inhospitable heath sparks a savage frontier love story worthy of a western.
A self-made trade unionist in France who blows the whistle on a nuclear industry scandal is targeted in a vicious sexual attack – then accused of making it up as society turns its judgment on her.
ABC’s new comedy series Austin is a unique show in its depiction of autism and neurodiversity as it follows an autistic man connecting for the first time with his biological father.
This month’s streaming picks range from the real-life sex, lies and scandal of the Ashley Madison data breach to the Regency-era drama of Bridgerton and the best season yet of Stan’s comedy hit Hacks.
A truck driver in northern Mexico is hunted down after accidentally causing a violent road death. What happens next explores grief and loss through the eyes of teenagers.
Commentary
It was the quintessential 1980s movie and The Coolangatta Gold was judged to be a turkey by some but maybe it is time for a rethink
Film & TV
The Beach Boys documentary highlights the band’s six-decade-long legacy, but brushes over some of the more complex and difficult aspects of their story.
The Mad Max circus is back in this prequel to Fury Road and George Miller proves himself the master of dystopian mayhem with a distinctive Australian edge.
A movie filmed amid the wild natural landscapes of Kangaroo Island is one of five new made-in-SA films showcased by Adelaide Film Festival at the Festival de Cannes. InReview spoke to the director about his film.
History from a deeply personal lens in From Hilde, With Love launches the German Film Festival as it celebrates both contemporary cinema and titans like Werner Herzog, whose gothic vampire film Nosferatu the Vampyre has never been bettered.
Focussing on the day-to-day response by Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir to the 1973 military crisis, this film is a smoke-filled study of an extraordinary woman that misses an opportunity to go deeper.
Film & TV
An old box with handwritten letters from the late 19th century was the catalyst for Rob George’s new documentary telling the story of Adelaide’s Advanced School for Girls and the far-reaching impact it had on the lives of South Australian women.
Film & TV
Shakespeare’s prophecies, bloody rivalries, murder and hauntings are given a contemporary militaristic edge in this London production of Macbeth, starring Ralph Fiennes and Indira Varma.
A new television series reveals how First Nations police officers are making progress around the country.
An exhibition showcasing Adelaide’s oldest movie cinemas not only shines a light on their important architectural contribution to South Australia, it also reflects their significance as glamorous social hubs over the decades.
When nature is disturbed, it finds ways to fight back in acclaimed director Ryūsuke Hamaguchi’s strange and immersive fable set in a village outside Tokyo.
Intellectual titans CS Lewis and Sigmund Freud pit God and faith against reason and psychoanalysis at an imagined meeting shortly before Freud’s death in 1939.
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The sixth Omen story loops back in time to the 1970s in the lead-up to the birth of Damien, who unleashes the forces of Satan and wreaks havoc on earth.
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The character of Tom Ripley was never meant to be pigeonholed. He is, in many respects, a walking contradiction – much like author Patricia Highsmith herself.
TV experts share their April streaming recommendations, from a saucy period drama and a twisted satire starring Kate Winslet, to two very different new Australian series and the latest season of sweaty reality show Blown Away.
From the opening this new eight-part streaming series feels in steady hands thanks to its well-seasoned cast of familiar actors led by a captivating Leah Purcell.
Neighbours recently broadcast its 9000th episode, prompting one Brisbane author – who also happens to be a Neighbours script editor – to reflect on the longevity of soap operas
A two-part film about the legendary Three Musketeers – one starring former ‘Bond Girl’ Eva Green – gets the French Film Festival off to a swashbuckling start, but this year’s fare also includes romance, science fiction and a touch of culinary magic.
