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Art review – Richard Roxburgh comedy delivers on laughs but not much more

Art feints at depth only to recoil from it, as if terrified a moment of genuine feeling might bore us

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Horror film and a war series dominate AACTA Awards

Horror flick Bring Her Back and streaming series The Narrow Road to the Deep North have dominated the AACTA Awards, Australia's answer to the Oscars.

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Supernatural horror flick wins big at screen awards

Horror film Bring Her Back has won 10 gongs at the 2026 AACTA Awards on the Gold Coast, while The Narrow Road to the Deep North has won nine awards.

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The 10 best Australian films of 2025

Spanning shark mayhem, Nicolas Cage and porridge-making, here are film critic Luke Buckmaster’s 10 favourite Australian movies of the year

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The Quirkiest Space Movie Of The Year Is A Sweet, If Predictable, Sci-Fi Mashup

From its gendered jokes to its animation style, 'Lesbian Space Princess' feels stuck in the 2010s.

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Forgive Us All review – a dead-boring zombie film? That’s unforgivable

Handsome cinematography and New Zealand landscapes can’t revive this dreary movie – and where on earth is Richard Roxburgh’s accent from?

The Guardian - AU

Five Great Reads: the ‘trad family’ movement, revenge quitters and how Blue Murder transfixed Australia

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Kris Swales

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Blue Murder at 30: how the miniseries transfixed Australia – and inspired death threats and bootlegs

Based on the real-life crimes of Neddy Smith, the 1995 two-parter was a ‘love story’ between a corrupt cop and a notorious crook. Everyone knew it would be huge

The Guardian - AU

Sexy K-pop demons, a human lie detector and shearers on strike: what to watch in July

Tomorrow marks exactly halfway through 2025. Luckily there’s a suite of streaming options to help get you through the mid-year bump.

The Conversation

Joh: The Last King of Queensland captures Bjelke-Petersen’s political persona – but omits key details of the story

The new documentary film Joh: The Last King of Queensland offers a dramatised account of Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen’s premiership from 1968 to 1987.

The Conversation

New Aussie film The Correspondent is an extraordinary retelling of Peter Greste’s story

The Correspondent is a film every journalist should see.

The Conversation

The Correspondent review – Richard Roxburgh is excellent as jailed journalist Peter Greste

Based on Greste’s account of his time in an Egyptian prison, this is an important story powerfully told

The Guardian - AU

‘I’ll tackle Rox if he tries to go to Egypt’: Richard Roxburgh, Peter Greste and 400 days in a Cairo prison

Greste’s harrowing experience of the Egyptian legal system is brought to the screen in The Correspondent, which takes its audience far beyond the familiar nightly news bulletins of 2014

The Guardian - AU

Spit, Magic Beach and a Crocodile Dundee redux: 10 Australian films to watch out for in 2025

Paul Hogan’s crocodile-wrangling larrikin returns, plus two family-friendly gems and new films starring Guy Pearce, David Wenham and Richard Roxburgh

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Fake, Four Corners and Guy Mont Spelling Bee: the best Australian television of 2024

From drama and comedy to quiz shows and documentaries, Guardian Australia’s critics and staff pick the best of the best

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How we made Romulus, My Father: ‘I said no to 10 to 12 offers – I didn’t want there to be a film’

Director Richard Roxburgh, actor Kodi Smit-McPhee and author Raimond Gaita share how their tiny adapation of Gaita’s book became a beloved Australian film

The Guardian - AU

Force of Nature: The Dry 2 review – Eric Bana returns as Aaron Falk in solid thriller

Based on Jane Harper’s bestseller, this twisty mystery follows Falk as he investigates a dodgy CEO (Richard Roxburgh) and his missing employee (Anna Torv)

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Roger Rogerson: the ‘icon of the force’ who became the ‘best policeman money could buy’

Rogerson, who was serving a life sentence for the murder of Jamie Gao, had a high IQ, epic courage, brilliant instincts for policing and a talent for manipulating people

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Prosper review – Richard Roxburgh leads a sizzling and sharp megachurch thriller

The fictional church in Stan’s addictive new drama could well be inspired by Hillsong, in a pacy show that bolts out of the gates and doesn’t slow down

The Guardian - AU

Aacta awards 2024: The Newsreader, Deadloch and Colin from Accounts lead TV nominations

ABC drama snags 15 nominations, while The New Boy, starring Cate Blanchett, horror hit Talk to Me and Shayda lead in film categories

Inverse

The 8 Best Movie Draculas, Including Nicolas Cage, Ranked

Nicolas Cage is the latest actor to sink his teeth into the role of the iconic vampire. But how does he hold up against the other movie Draculas?

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Aunty Donna’s Coffee Cafe review – sketch comedy trio scramble for laughs in new show

The premise of running a Melbourne cafe has heaps of potential – but while there’s always joy to be found in the zaniness, this series isn’t their best

Manchester Evening News

Bali 2022 on ITVX: Release date, what the true story is about, cast and where you have seen them before

ITV’s new four-part drama will explore the 2002 bombings on the Indonesian island paradise of Bali

The Guardian - AU

The Tempest review – Shakespeare gets a radical edit from Sydney Theatre Company

Richard Roxburgh as Prospero and Guy Simon as Caliban are outstanding in Kip Williams’ latest production, which takes a revolutionary approach to the script

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Bali 2002 review – Bali bombings mini-series is out of its depth

Stan’s four-part series recreates a terrorist attack seared into our psyche – but it’s confused about what it wants to be, and poses an ethical question too

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