Film and drama
Gilding the cage of suburbia: Farewelling Neighbours

The statistics of Australia’s longest-running drama series about sickeningly idyllic suburbia ...  
Bullet Train — fun and murder on an Orient express

A case full of money brings together an assortment of assassins on board a bullet train to Kyoto ...  
The crawdads are singing, but their tune is humdrum

A young girl is accused of murder and must face her ultimate fight for survival against prejudice ...  
'Top Gun': The thinly disguised Pentagon recruitment drive

The link between film and the military-industrial complex has never been more evident than in the ...  
Elvis is back in the building

While much is known about the King of Rock n' Roll, there is another story behind his rise and ...  
Julian Assange and family suffer as unjust detention continues

The documentary Ithaka powerfully depicts the fight Julian Assange's family is putting up for ...  
Top Gun: Maverick aims for the skies and soars high

Former Top Gun pilot Pete "Maverick" Mitchell is called back to train a new group of students ...  
Dark and twisted, the Strange world goes mad

Dr Stephen Strange must protect a young girl with the ability to cross universes from an evil ...  
Nordic lore with a bit of gore, The Northman fails to bore

A young Viking prince is determined to fulfil a promise to save his mother, kill his uncle and ...  
Australia's neo-Nazi threat — Revealed: Amongst Us

As neo-Nazism continues to be a growing problem in Australia, it's important to be aware of the ...  
A love letter to journalism, courtesy of The French Dispatch

A collection of stories come together as a tribute to journalists and editors everywhere.  
As our world grows darker, along comes The Batman

A vigilante determined to wipe out crime from his city's streets becomes tangled in the web of a ...  
Cashing in on Christ — The Eyes of Tammy Faye

With church scandals still making headlines, a new film depicting the life of Tammy Faye Bakker ...  
Why 'The Company You Keep' matters

Ten years ago, Robert Redford crafted a political drama that bears a lot of relevance to the chaos ...  
Sundance accused of theft amid refund controversy

One of the world's most celebrated film festivals is being accused of theft for refusing to issue ...  
The most depressing thing about 'Don’t Look Up' (isn’t what you think)

IA columnist Andrew P Street takes a look at the funny, sad, terrifying parable for our times that ...  
WHAT'S ON: Ghostbusters Afterlife — the legacy lives on

A mother and two children discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret ...  
WHAT'S ON: Matrix Resurrections — more sleeping pill than red pill

A computer programmer is once again given the choice between living a lie or discovering the truth ...  

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