Alvin Purple

Howling III: The Marsupials

Suburban Fragments: Community and Bricolage in Tim Barretto’s Bassendream

Shame

Love Is in the Air: Wayne Blair’s Top End Wedding and the Rom-com’s New Direction

The Picture Show Man

Radiance

Out of the Frying Pan: Screen Australia and the Producer Offset

‘The Show Must Go On’: Transgression and the Carnivalesque in Moulin Rouge!

Painting a Motion Picture: An interview with Shaun Tan

Rocking the Foundations

Ten Canoes

Cinema Science: Aerodynamic Instruction and Paper Planes

Starstruck

Millennial Gay: Josh Thomas’ Please Like Me

Fraternity Test: Watching Brothers’ Nest in the Shadow of Kenny

Telling Our Love Story: AIDS, Adaptation and Neil Armfield’s Holding the Man

Alien in Australia: Science Fiction, Refugee Politics and The Stranger

Crocodile Dundee

Intimacy and Betrayal: A Study Guide on The Hunting

‘It’s a Joke, Sir’: Chris Lilley’s comedy of character, performance and taboo

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.

World Without a Map: The Flattening Perspective of Jennifer Peedom’s River

Time of Transition: First Day and Being Seen on Screen

The Electric Artist

Borrowed Time: The Life and Death of the Video Store

Critical Hits: Australian Independent Videogames Today

Hard Times and Ordinary Lives: Warehouse Work on the Big Screen

Film Criticism … Somebody’s Got to Do It

Visual Literacy: Are Pictures Worth a Thousand Words?

Journey into Darkness: Justin Kurzel and Shaun Grant on Nitram

Top Dogs: The ABC’s Bluey and Australian Children’s Animation

Heading for Deep Water: Interrogating Detention in Gabrielle Brady’s Island of the Hungry Ghosts

Adelaide Dreams Electric: Immersive Possibilities at Adelaide Fringe

Life on Show: The Ethical Quandaries of Jason van Genderen’s Everybody’s Oma

Capricious Childhood: Confronting Family Life in John Sheedy’s H Is for Happiness

‘Let’s Go Shopping!’: Tony Barber and Philip Brady on the Golden Age of Australian Game Shows

John Hurt on Nineteen Eighty-Four

Creation in the Cutting Room: Jill Bilcock on the Art of Film Editing

Entangled Lives: Trauma, Attachment and Survival in My Brilliant Friend and Pachinko