Sci-fi on a Shoestring: Ché Baker and Sarah Mason on Blue World Order

Shooting for the Stars: Luke Sparke’s Occupation: Rainfall and the Elusive Australian Blockbuster

Representing Resistance: Ayse Toprak’s Mr Gay Syria and LGBTQIA+ Rights

Shared Suffering: Remembering the Tokyo Firebombing in Adrian Francis’ Paper City

Night Cries: A Rural Tragedy

Confinement and Camaraderie: Girls Behind Bars in Starless Dreams and Sunless Shadows

A Little Less Conversation: The Convenient Omissions of Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis

Stoking the Fire: The Rousing Fictions of RRR

A Dense Web of Relationships: How Film Culture Sustains the Screen Industries

Cinema Science: Into the Multiverse

All You Can Be: Self-actualisation, Self-acceptance and Disability in Paul Barakat’s Kairos

The Cheaters

The Rules of the Game: Squid Game as Social Allegory

Reframing the Past: The Emotional Histories of Raoul Peck and Adam Curtis

Generic Interventions: Tropes and Topicality in the Films of Bong Joon-ho

Roles to Play: Games, Learning and Child Development in Bluey

Crooked Histories: Underbelly and Australian Self-mythologisation

Obstacle Course: Increasing Women’s Participation in Australian Film and Television

Chosen Land: Affection and Ambivalence in Nadav Lapid’s Films About Israel

Artificial Rain: Control, Precision and Reality in Anthony Chen’s Wet Season

Making a Scene: Telling Stories and Engaging Audiences on TikTok

The Political Is Personal: Helen Reddy and the Generational Politics of I Am Woman

Solo Act: Music and the Man’s World in Janine Hosking’s Knowing the Score

The Streaming Arms Race: Original VOD Programming in Australia

Dreams and Nightmares: The Animated Worlds of Satoshi Kon

Naivety in Nudity

That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore: Comedy, Controversy and the Changing Audience

Quiet Rage: The Fire and Finesse of Lee Chang-dong’s Cinema

Killing the Host: Class and Complacency in Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite

Innocence: Haunted by the Future

A Whole New World: Metaverse as Fairytale in Belle

Movies, Life, and Education

Reeling in the Beast: The Anti-Russian, Russian Leviathan

Brave New Sector: An Industry Adapts

Homeless, Aimless: Alkinos Tsilimidos’ Tom White

At the Threshold of Revival: Australian Cinema and the Moment of 2000 Weeks

Reflections on a Shared History: Monica Zanetti on Ellie & Abbie (& Ellie’s Dead Aunt)

Things to Come: The Wandering Earth and Chinese Cinema’s Growing Predominance

Assembling the Debris: Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone

Untrustworthy Images, Disguised Fictions: Kitty Green’s Casting JonBenet