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British actor Dennis Waterman, who starred in TV shows Minder, The Sweeney and New Tricks, has died at the age of 74.
Film & TV
Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas and Oscar Martínez star in this satire about a movie made for all the wrong reasons, screening as part of the Spanish Film Festival.
A new documentary about poet, publisher and bookseller Max Harris looks beyond the Ern Malley hoax to offer a glimpse of the lively cultural scene that hummed beneath the veneer of conservative 1940s Adelaide. And at its heart is a love story.
Downton is a franchise built on country-manor snobbery, which means the quality and serving sizes above and below the stairs remain consistent. Time to check in with the toffs and their servants who, over seven seasons and two movies, have been variously to jail, hell, and now, France.
This big-budget Viking epic offers a classic storyline with grit and wild drama.
An extraordinary slice of 19th-century Adelaide history involving a pioneering hot-air-balloon flight, a pair of daredevil ‘lady trapeze artists’ and a crowd of fascinated onlookers is re-created in miniature in a new ABC TV series co-hosted by local tiny craft artist JoAnne Bouzianis-Sellick.
Set during the Nazi occupation of Paris in World War II, this French Film Festival highlight is a morality tale with a punch.
Film & TV
Australian classic The Castle is turning 25 this month – here’s why its iconic quotes and Aussie battler story have become beloved and revered.
Film & TV
There’s comfort to be had in this fun return to the world of witchcraft and wizardry.
A highlight of the 2022 French Film Festival, this sad yet unsentimental movie follows a man – and his mother – forced to confront the imminent end of an unfinished life.
The 2022 French Film Festival opens in Adelaide this week with a strong line-up of films ranging from searing romances to a remastered classic crime thriller and a documentary filmed high on the Tibetan plateau.
It may seem Kodi Smit-McPhee became an overnight success with Netflix gothic western The Power of the Dog, but the Adelaide-born actor got his first Hollywood break at just eight. He sees his 2022 Oscars nod as another exciting beginning.
New ABC TV docu-comedy The Exhibitionists asks why the dominant image of an artist is a man – and places women back in the frame.
Film & TV
A towering Robert Pattinson embodies Gotham’s troubled caped crusader in this stylistic Batman noir.
Film & TV
A cinematic reinvention of a 2004 concert with singer-songwriters Archie Roach and Ruby Hunter, in collaboration with Paul Grabowsky, provides a portrait of two artists and what it means to come ‘home’.
Actor Joaquin Phoenix believed an ‘epic kid’ was essential to make this movie work – luckily, the filmmakers found one.
The sumptuous settings are central to the allure of Kenneth Branagh’s contemporary take on this classic Agatha Christie whodunnit.
Adelaide-born actor Kodi Smit-McPhee is up for an Oscar for his role in director Jane Campion’s gothic western The Power of the Dog, with the film leading the pack in the 2022 Academy Award nominations.
This dreamy and exceptional film opens with the recurring obsessions of author Haruki Murakami, on whose short story it is based: namely, sex and the idea of pieces of identity left with or taken by lovers.
Neighbours will halt production amid questions about its future after British television Channel 5 confirmed it would stop airing the Australian soap later this year.
For all the Shakespearean drama Kenneth Branagh has done (As You Like It, Henry V, Hamlet and more), this personal memoir of childhood in the tightly packed streets of Northern Ireland may be his crowning achievement.
The relationship between two women who meet while giving birth is at the heart of Pedro Almodóvar’s engaging new film, but the Spanish director also uses Parallel Mothers to reckon with a dark period in his country’s history.
Daring director Guillermo del Toro goes full film noir with his latest star-studded thriller set inside the surreal world of a 1940s carnival.
Wes Anderson takes his intricate storytelling style to dizzying new heights in his homage to New Yorker-style journalism.
Oscar-winning director Jane Campion’s first film in 12 years is a dark and unnerving western featuring unforgettable performances from a cast including Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst and Kodi Smit-McPhee.
From his first film roles in the 1970s through to recent times, David Dalaithngu’s impact as both an actor and leader was far-reaching, writes Professor of Indigenous Studies Bronwyn Carlson: ‘He was an actor who could not be constrained.’
Director Denis Villeneuve’s breathtaking adaptation of Dune shows that Frank Herbert’s epic 1965 science-fiction novel was not ‘unfilmable’ after all.
