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The Final Cut is your guide to films worth talking about, big and small—from Hollywood blockbusters to the outer reaches of world cinema.

Swinging Safari: review and interview with writer-director Stephan Elliott

This film works best as a raucous, high energy pastiche – but needed a script edit to bring out the plot’s true potential.

01-19
18:04

Sweet Country

Warwick Thornton tackles the Western, a genre well suited to examining issues of race and colonisation. It's a reflective, often beautiful film.

01-19
07:29

The Young Pope

A round table discussion on Paolo Sorrentino's TV series The Young Pope, starring Jude Law.

01-12
18:17

Darkest Hour

Joe Wright is a filmmaker who can make you almost forget you’ve seen it all before.

01-12
06:51

Lady Macbeth: review and interview with cinematographer Ari Wegner

Newcomer Florence Pugh goes from a rosy cheeked teen bride to a woman capable of murder.

01-05
09:31

All the Money in the World review and interview with screenwriter David Scarpa

Williams and Plummer are barely on screen together, but they are the engine room of the film, powering it along even as it loses its way

01-05
15:58

Twin Peaks: The Return

Twin Peaks: The Return is one of my picks for binge watching over the summer.

12-22
18:53

Call Me By Your Name

Luca Guadagnino’s luscious but meandering film is a pastel hued, pop music reverie, but perhaps it's a little too in love with itself.

12-22
03:40

Downsizing

This starts well but soon transforms into a Truman style film about a sinister dystopia.

12-22
02:25

The Florida Project: review and interview with director Sean Baker

Shot in lush, wide screen 35mm celluloid, this world seems like a magical kingdom impervious to the everyday adult problems of poverty, forced evictions, drugs and prostitution, until of course the bubble bursts.

12-15
19:59

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

Breathe. The Star Wars franchise is in good hands with writer director Rian Johnson.

12-15
05:18

Analyzing Christmas in Film: Santa to the Supernatural

What makes Christmas movies tick?

12-08
12:08

AACTA Awards: a panel discussion with Dov Kornits and Lauren Carroll Harris

A panel discussion on this week's AACTA Awards, and a look back over the Australian screen industry in 2017.

12-08
12:25

Call my Agent and the French TV wave

A look at the rise in French screen production, including a wonderful series set in downtown Paris about a group of passionate talent agents.

12-01
19:13

Only the Brave

Unlike contemporary action movies like John Wick or most comic book blockbusters, Only The Brave doesn’t come with a side order of self-deprecation.

12-01
05:39

Asia Pacific Screen Awards

The Asia Pacific Screen Awards celebrate cinema from across the region in the broadest sense.

11-24
15:35

The Disaster Artist: review and interview with actor Greg Sestero

James Franco's The Disaster Artist is a tribute to one of the worst films ever made, The Room.

11-24
10:01

Justice League

The plot bounces around indifferently like a ball in the penalty box refusing to go in.

11-17
02:24

The Teacher: review and interview with actor Zuzana Mauréry

The 1980s in Czechoslovakia were bleak years, but a film like The Teacher reminds us how petty and personal the abuses of Soviet communism could be.

11-17
05:56

Starstruck Exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery

A celebration of the work of film stills photographers, a professional category often overlooked, but integral to film publicity since the very beginning.

11-17
10:44

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