Remembering Robert Duval

Success came late to the late American actor Robert Duvall but in a career spanning seven decades, he won an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, four Golden Globe Awards, two Primetime Emmy Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award for his characterful character performances.

5 from ’25

2025 won’t be remembered as a great year for film, but here are five movies you may enjoy if you see art as a means to make political points as well as entertain the public.

The twin film phenomenon

A new book explores the curious case of twin films, where Hollywood’s uncanny doubles reveal the secrets behind cinema’s most intriguing coincidences and rivalries.

The fifty year picnic

Half a century after its release, Picnic at Hanging Rock remains the best Australian film ever made, and allows for many interpretations – including a lumpen attempt to reduce it to anti-colonialist agitprop.

10 complete unknowns

The Oscars were once the highlight of the cultural calendar, and while their importance has diminished as the entertainment industry has changed, this year’s ceremony will still garner some attention.

Room to dream

Best known for films such as Eraserhead, Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive and the hugely influential television series Twin Peaks, American director David Lynch has died at the age of 78.

Introducing Audrey

Would you be better off without your kids? Audrey is a cheeky, darkly humorous film that explores maternal regret

Blair Witch turns 25

This year marks the 25th anniversary of The Blair Witch Project, a film that popularised the found-footage horror sub-genre, captivated a generation of horror fans and inspired a hundred copy-cats.

In praise of Donald Sutherland

Donald Sutherland never pigeonholed himself as a certain defined type of actor. He could play goofy, dramatic, scary, intense, subtle, tough or gentle and excelled at them all.

Reality Bites at 30

Here’s something to make you feel old, the Generation X classic Reality Bites has turned thirty years old. The good news is that the film stands up and is as much fun as ever.

Deciphering the monolith

Monolith, a low-budget, high concept science fiction film from first time Australian director Matt Vesely and writer Lucy Campbell, is a triumph of quiet, intelligent film making.

You’ll never find me

The new Australian psychological horror film You’ll Never Find Me is an unsettling and economical chamber piece that makes effective use of its limited location and dialogue-heavy script.