University executives need serious help to escape from the Cult of Efficiency. At what point do we dispense with the idea that the value of education and knowledge can be measured in business terms. This is truly insane. insidestory.org.au/the-jewel-in...

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The pace of The Fantastic Four is a little slow, and I'm not sold on its take on protagonist Reed Richards (Pedro Pascal), but I swear Marvel fans need to see Galactus on the biggest cinema screen that they can find.

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I’ve taken a bit of flack for enjoying the I Know What You Did Last Summer requel, but the horror genre has room for trashy fun imho🪝 bit.ly/3GUeIHl

cursed with knowledge wish I didn’t know the film adaptation of a Rey/Kylo Ren fanfic with the serial numbers filed off just cast Daisy Ridley’s husband but now you do too

New video. Two extremely obscure English science fiction movies. youtu.be/Yjz8y_Udkc8

MELBOURNE! Tickets to our women in horror secret screening at MIFF are selling super fast, you do not want to miss these 💜

My review of Christopher Landon's first date thriller Drop (2025) has, um, dropped. fictionmachine.com/2025/07/19/r...

James Gunn's Superman is exactly the sort of bright, ridiculous, over-the-top joy that I want from a superhero movie.

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From ghost-blocking pups to giant sharks chomping WWII soldiers and on to very Excel-ent kids, here are some more choice options from this year's @melbfilmfest.bsky.social program bit.ly/4m0e7D0

I’m a huge fan of Julia Holter so this was particularly exciting for me.

Maja Ajmia Yde Zellama’s Têtes Brûlées is a coming of age story set in Brussels in a Muslim community. It’s wonderful, rich, funny and melancholy. I spoke to Maja about her film playing @melbfilmfest.bsky.social

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1960s epic Taras Bulba boasts a great performance by Yul Brynner, but also a terrible one by Tony Curtis.

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Australian readers: here's seven excellent docos to stream, celebrating the culture and history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Overseas readers: hopefully some of these are available where you live too

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And part one of my chat with It Was Just an Accident filmmaker Jafar Panahi, who won the top prize ab.co/3SJxtQ5

Songs Inside just won the Documentary Australia Award @sydfilmfest.bsky.social Here’s my chat with the film team ab.co/3G57Ar4

Thank you to all the new and renewing member applications. The committee is working through applications now and will be in touch with those who applied shortly.

Thanks to the lovely folks at the Rondos for posting my acceptance speech to YouTube. An honour to receive the 2024 award for Writer of the Year, and even more important was the ability to dedicate it to the late and dearly missed Australian horror icon Lee Gambin. You finally got your Rondo darlst!

Love a people power story, so was a treat to chat to Catalan director Marcel Barrena about Spanish Film Festival highlight El 47 ab.co/442j8U0

For a long time, serial killer and shark movies were separate forms of cinema; never the twain did meet. In Dangerous Animals they’ve been blended into one foul fishy stew. My review

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