DOCUMENTARY | Sylvia Lawson reviews Hope in a Slingshot, which isn’t to be screened on the ABC
22 Jul 10 Comments (2)Hollywood economics
BOOKS | Ben Goldsmith reviews Edward Jay Epstein’s compelling behind-the-scenes account of how money moves in Hollywood
13 Jul 10 Comments (0)
Overload
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson walks past the Opera House, through the writers’ festival and into the 2010 Sydney Film Festival
10 Jun 10 Comments (0)Palm Island to Bennelong Point
CINEMA | Sylvia Lawson reviews the Message Sticks Film Festival – including the “utterly unexpected” Boxing for Palm Island
12 May 10 Comments (0)Out of the picture
CINEMA | The Hurt Locker doesn’t ask the question, but the audience must, writes Sylvia Lawson
01 Apr 10 Comments (2)
The hole in their bucket
Media companies’ campaign against internet piracy suffered a major setback last week when a federal court judgement let internet service providers off the hook for their customers’ illegal downloads. But the copyright wars are more than just a matter for the courts, write Julian Thomas and Ramon Lobato
11 Feb 10 Comments (3)Complications
CINEMA | The Australian film industry might not be as stricken as some commentators suggest. Sylvia Lawson looks back at a year’s output
04 Feb 10 Comments (0)Reviewing Indigenous history in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia
CINEMA | On the eve of the “Baz Luhrmann’s Australia Reviewed” conference at the National Museum of Australia, convenors Shino Konishi and Maria Nugent survey responses to the film’s engagement with Indigenous history
04 Dec 09 Comments (2)
