Cinema
Succession’s Sarah Snook stars in first Australian film in five years
In Run Rabbit Run, the actor plays a divorced fertility doctor whose daughter Mia becomes obsessed with a white rabbit.
- by Garry Maddox
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This Stephen King story is scarier on the page than the big screen
The Boogeyman is a familiar horror set-up, with bloodless set pieces and flashing lights to distract us from the fact not much is going on.
- by Jake Wilson
★★★★
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Coming-of-age story looks predictable, but finds sweet spot in outback
Life is tough for 16-year-old Murra in Sweet As. But that changes the day someone puts a camera in her hand.
- by Sandra Hall
Tina Turner, a thoughtful soul on the set of a Mad Max film
In the harshest conditions, there was nothing of the diva about Tina Turner when she shot Beyond Thunderdome.
- by Garry Maddox
★★★
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Guess what? Nicolas Cage’s vampire comedy doesn’t suck
He may be off-screen for a large part of Renfield, but the actor gives a barnstorming performance as Dracula opposite Nicholas Hoult as his lowly assistant.
- by Jake Wilson
Witchcraft and a mother’s guilt: film probes a shocking French crime
Filmmaker Alice Diop became fascinated by the trial of a woman who left her baby on a beach to die.
- by Jake Wilson
How the new Little Mermaid rose above the #NotMyAriel backlash
Halle Bailey, who stars in Disney’s latest live-action adaptation of an animated classic, has a refreshing perspective about her casting as the iconic Ariel.
- by Garry Maddox
Cue the sun: How The Truman Show predicted our obsession with fake reality
It’s 25 years since Peter Weir’s The Truman Show became a hit. No one involved expected the movie to be so hauntingly prophetic.
- by Garry Maddox
★★★
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Vin Diesel loses his humanity in race to become America’s James Bond
As the Fast and Furious saga nears its end, its star becomes more interested in family and less in reality.
- by Jake Wilson
★★★★
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Forget the mean streets, Liam Neeson turns on charm as famous detective
This new take on Raymond Chandler’s iconic character Philip Marlowe is a deluxe nostalgia trip.
- by Sandra Hall
Nicolas Cage as Dracula? It’s all a bit draining
At the heart of the hyper-violent horror comedy Renfield, based on the Dracula novels, is the tale of a toxic relationship.
- by Karl Quinn