Australian and New Zealand Cinema
204 articles
‘Are You Not Entertained?’: Maziar Lahooti’s Below and the Morality of Pay-per-view Violence
The Pen Is Mightier than the Gun: Justin Kurzel’s True History of the Kelly Gang and Punk Historiography
Lust in Space: Teenage Queerness and Connection in Samuel van Grinsven’s Sequin in a Blue Room
Dawn of the Dad: Masculinity and Maturity in Abe Forsythe’s Little Monsters
Artificial Inheritance: Robotics and Responsibility in Grant Sputore’s I Am Mother
The Lingering Melodies of Trauma: Ben Lawrence’s Hearts and Bones
The Price of Fish: Slavery and Social Responsibility in Rodd Rathjen’s Buoyancy
Hell Hath No Fury: Tony D’Aquino, Andrew Marriott and Lisa Shaunessy on The Furies
Pantomime of Violence: Gender and Outrage in Mirrah Foulkes’ Judy & Punch
Poetry in Action: Racism and Resistance in Partho Sen-Gupta’s Slam
Oceans Within Us: Eight Perspectives on the Pacific in Vai
Troubled Bubble: The Aspirational Milieu of Rachel Ward’s Palm Beach
Out of the Trenches: Kriv Stenders on Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan and Revisiting History
Hierarchies of Horror: The Violent Refrains of Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale
Love Is in the Air: Wayne Blair’s Top End Wedding and the Rom-com’s New Direction
Girls Behaving Badly: Love, Honour and Disobedience in Sophie Hyde’s Animals
Sin City: Diaspora, Displacement and Matthew Victor Pastor’s Melodrama / Random / Melbourne
Arid Visions: Reflections in the Dust, Gendered Violence and Experimental Cinema
Kiss Me Deadly: Robbie Studsor on Blowing a Burning Kiss to Film Noir
Terror, Tragedy, Truth: Anthony Maras’ Hotel Mumbai
Breaching Bounds: The Confronting Body in Miranda Nation’s Undertow
Bird’s-eye View: Childhood, Grief and Community in Emu Runner
Tearing Out a New Leaf: Book Week and the Unlikeable Protagonist
In the Crease: Self-referential Storytelling in Ted Wilson’s Under the Cover of Cloud
The Pelican Brief: The Shallow Reflections of Shawn Seet’s Storm Boy
Dark Dresses, Problematic Pleasures: Mobility and Nostalgia in Bruce Beresford’s Ladies in Black
Paint and Suffering: The Delicate Art of Acute Misfortune
On Song: Navigating the Past in Ben Hackworth’s Celeste
Redemption, Restoration, Reclamation: Benjamin Gilmour on Jirga
Different Ball Game: Damian Callinan on Sport, Community and The Merger
A Neoliberal Spin: Management and Masculinity in Stephen Mccallum’s 1%
‘Permission to Operate Independently’: Upgrade and the Body-machines of Action Cinema
Fraternity Test: Watching Brothers’ Nest in the Shadow of Kenny
Landing Success: Luke Sparke and Carly and Carmel Imrie on Occupation
Getting a Second Opinion: Mairi Cameron on Truth and Trickery
Once upon a Time in the West: Suburbia and Identity in Jason Raftopoulos’ West of Sunshine
Muddied Waters: Risk and Reflection in Simon Baker’s Breath
Heavy Here and Now: Alena Lodkina’s Strange Colours
