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Fabulous, darling! Priscilla to ride again in film sequel
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert – an Australian classic – is getting a sequel, according to director Stephan Elliott.
- by Ashleigh McMillan
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Drive My Car won him an Oscar. Now he’s tackling the battle between nature and capitalism
The enemy may or may not be glamping in director Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s stirring new eco-parable.
- by Stephanie Bunbury
★★★½
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Drive My Car director changes gear with this slow-building forest tale
Oscar nominee Ryusuke Hamaguchi has made an intriguing film, but is it a gently satirical comedy of urban and rural manners, an eco-philosophical fable or something else?
- by Jake Wilson
★★
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Tennis provides background noise in Zendaya’s pointless love triangle
Director Luca Guadagnino does everything he can to distract you from the game in this fast-paced, time-tripping drama.
- by Sandra Hall
Inside the stunt that saw Ryan Gosling shut down the Harbour Bridge
Director David Leitch started his career as Brad Pitt’s stunt double, then Matt Damon’s. So who better to tell Ryan Gosling how to ride a broken bin across Sydney Harbour Bridge at 50km/h?
- by Louise Rugendyke
The forgotten follow-up to Romper Stomper that is finally getting its moment in the sun
“We got the last use of old-time Melbourne.” Newly remastered, 1995’s Metal Skin offers up a wild story of drag racing, sex and satanism in the western suburbs.
- by Will Cox
This overblown Netflix space sequel to Rebel Moon is no Star Wars opera
Director Zack Snyder’s Rebel Moon Part 2 lacks the humour of Star Wars or the pomposity of Dune.
- by Jake Wilson
Get free movie passes to see “Freud’s Last Session”*
Subscribers have the chance to redeem one of 30 double passes* to see Anthony Hopkins and Matthew Goode go head-to-head in a battle of wits in Freud’s Last Session.
From K-drama to K-horror: How South Korea is reinventing zombie flicks
South Korea already as a reputation for making great TV dramas and now Netflix is helping bring their horror films to the world.
- by Nell Geraets
Civil War is dividing audiences. But what is the chilling film trying to say?
The author of The Beach and director of Ex Machina has made a film about the collapse of democracy. It’s a harrowing vision but, he says, it needn’t come true.
- by Karl Quinn
She took on Amy Winehouse, even though she knew the risks
Marisa Abela, who plays the British singer in the film Back to Black, says the biopic is an honest portrait of the star’s relationship with her controversial father Mitch.
- by Louise Rugendyke