He is more familiar with the roughhouse mining and cattle industries but Australia’s richest man, Andrew Forrest, believes a film can change the world. “I think it can,” the billionaire mining magnate said from London. “Awareness changes the world. “We’re going to give this a real crack”: Minderoo Pictures executive producer Richard Harris (left) with […]

Jock Serong didn’t have the ideal schooling for a historical novelist. Yes, he studied the subject, but all he learned was about serfs, lords and European medieval history – and that put him right off. So much so that he rejected the Australian history course on offer in year 12. As he puts it now, […]

The place that most intrigues Doug Aitken might be no place at all. In the late 1990s, the celebrated American artist, 53, was browsing an atlas when he stumbled on an unnamed section of Namibia, bordering the Atlantic Ocean. It gave rise to a work that would broadcast his vision to the world, 1997’s Diamond […]

Mask exemption is music to the ears of banned players We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Skip to sections navigationSkip to contentSkip to footer Thousands of community musicians can now return to rehearsals after NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard issued an exemption to public health orders removing the requirement for […]

THE LAST DUEL ★★★★MA, 153 minutes Ridley Scott launched himself as a director in 1977 when his first film, The Duellists, was awarded a prize at Cannes. The title of his new film, The Last Duel, might suggest he’s thinking of bringing his remarkable career to an end. But there’s nothing retiring about Scott. At […]

Marta Dusseldorp was deep into pandemic seclusion in Tasmania when she called her writer friend Andrew Knight, the co-creator of SeaChange, in Melbourne. The star of Janet King, A Place To Call Home and Jack Irish had been working with him for more than 20 years dating back to the miniseries After The Deluge. “It’s […]

I Know What You Did Last Summer ★★★½ Amazon Prime Video I Know What You Did Last Summer wasn’t the greatest slasher flick of the ’90s, but it was a big box-office success that spawned a successful sequel. Now reinvented as a streaming television series, is there enough there to sustain it? Early indications point […]

In 1998, when he was just 17 years old, Daniel MacPherson packed up his life and drove from Sydney to Melbourne. Discovered on a beach, the teenager had been offered an 18-month contract to appear on Neighbours. MacPherson had never acted – “and I had no idea how to do it,” he adds – but […]

The Twilight Zone ★★★★ When the original Twilight Zone aired between 1959 and 1964, it was groundbreaking; while the anthology structure was not new at the time, the multi-genre content and its innovative use of storytelling was unlike anything that had come before. Created, produced and largely written by Rod Serling, who also appeared as […]

By Josh Rottenberg October 22, 2021 — 5.19pm Cinematographer Halyna Hutchins, who was killed in a tragic incident involving a prop gun fired by actor and producer Alec Baldwin on the New Mexico set of the movie Rust, appeared to have a vivid future. A 2015 graduate of the AFI conservatory, Hutchins, 42, had been […]