‘Are You Not Entertained?’: Maziar Lahooti’s Below and the Morality of Pay-per-view Violence
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‘Are You Not Entertained?’: Maziar Lahooti’s Below and the Morality of Pay-per-view Violence
First, Do No Harm: The Treatment of Refugees in Against Our Oath
Words Sarah Jacob
Loved Back to Life: Hope, Community and Policy Failures in Life After the Oasis
Words Hanna Schenkel
All Talked Out: Mental Health and Masculinity in Genevieve Bailey’s Happy Sad Man
Words Benjamin Riley
Need for Speed: Risk and Reward in Dylan River’s Finke: There and Back
Words Elizabeth Flux
The Drive to Succeed: Outrunning the Legacy of Brabham
Words Travis Johnson
Critical Hits: Australian Independent Videogames Today
Words Dan Golding
Envisioned Presences: Future Dreaming, Passenger and the Continuing Evolution of Virtual Reality
Words Kim Munro
Poetry of the Night: The Noir Trappings Of Diao Yinan’s The Wild Goose Lake
Words Nicholas Godfrey
Multiplayer Mode: Loss and Growing Up in Makoto Nagahisa’s We Are Little Zombies
Words Anthony Carew
Cinema Science: Using the Force of Star Wars
Words Dave Crewe
The Guitar Gently Weeps: Death and Memory in Coco
Words Meg Roberts
We Unhappy Few: Muddy Morality and Ugly Truth in David Michôd’s The King
Words Anthony Carew
Fighting the Future: Risk, Resistance and Rebellion in Stan’s The Commons
Words Rebekah Brammer
Love Without Limits: Disability, Illness and Romance in Standing Up for Sunny and Cerulean Blue
Words Alistair Baldwin
Howling III: The Marsupials
Words Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Storytelling in a Time of Evolution: Screen Forever 2019
Words Rochelle Siemienowicz
Gone for Good: Putting a Full Stop on The Good Place
Words Liz Giuffre
Endgame: Six Years of Reporting on the Australian Videogames Industry
Words Dan Golding
Hidden Treasures: Adolescent Adventures in Dora and the Lost City of Gold: A live-action reboot of the popular children’s TV series Dora the Explorer, James Bobin’s film ages up its protagonists and places them within a high-stakes adventure narrative. By pairing familiar characters with high school dramas and issues surrounding exploration and cultural sensitivity, the film provides plenty of conversation starters for an upper primary and junior secondary audience who may have enjoyed the show in younger years, writes Carolyn Leslie.
Words Carolyn Leslie
The Pen Is Mightier than the Gun: Justin Kurzel’s True History of the Kelly Gang and Punk Historiography
Words Alexandra Heller-Nicholas
Lust in Space: Teenage Queerness and Connection in Samuel van Grinsven’s Sequin in a Blue Room
Words Laurence Barber
Dawn of the Dad: Masculinity and Maturity in Abe Forsythe’s Little Monsters
Words Mel Campbell
Artificial Inheritance: Robotics and Responsibility in Grant Sputore’s I Am Mother
Words Dave Crewe
The Lingering Melodies of Trauma: Ben Lawrence’s Hearts and Bones
Words Hanna Schenkel
The Price of Fish: Slavery and Social Responsibility in Rodd Rathjen’s Buoyancy
Words Stephen A Russell
Hell Hath No Fury: Tony D’Aquino, Andrew Marriott and Lisa Shaunessy on The Furies
Words Oliver Pfeiffer
Twisted Sisters: Invention and Isolation in Foxtel’s Lambs of God
Words Glenn Dunks
Watch List: Melbourne WebFest 2019 and the Continued Rise of Web Series
Words Kim Munro
Smoke and Mirrors: Midi Z’s Nina Wu and the Cinema of Self-reflection
Words Gabrielle O'Brien
Finding Home in a Daydream: Shahrbanoo Sadat’s The Orphanage and Afghan Storytelling
Words Anthony Carew
Birth Control: Nanfu Wang and Jialing Zhang’s One Child Nation
Words Debbie Zhou
A Race to the Goal: Adam Goodes’ Story in The Final Quarter and The Australian Dream
Words Travis Johnson
History Is Never Finished: Trauma, Revolution and Reconciliation in Peter Hegedus’ Lili
Words Jessica Friedmann
Sexual Healing: Feminism, Porn and Self-acceptance in Morgana
Words Rochelle Siemienowicz
Ghost in the Algorithm: Justin Krook’s Machine and Advancing AI
Words Anthony Carew
Everybody’s Still Kung-fu Fighting: Serge Ou’s Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
Words Elizabeth Flux
Spectres of the Past: Necropolitics and Colonial Trauma in Dark Place
Words Tristen Harwood
Legacy of a Law-breaker: Andrew Dominik’s Chopper Turns Twenty
Words Kenta McGrath
Sons of Matthew
Words Barnaby Smith