Digital media users may be easy to track but they can be very hard to follow, writes Jock Given
16 Aug 12 Comments (0)
Almost live is fully legal
The AFL and the NRL’s grievance against Optus is far from the epic battle that’s been portrayed in the coverage, writes Scott Ewing
23 Feb 12 Comments (0)Much too promised land
Critics of Peter Kosminsky’s series The Promise – released on DVD this week – are misrepresenting its depiction of Arab and Israeli characters, argues Hal Wootten
16 Feb 12 Comments (9)The right thing
The screening of the ABC’s ambitious courtroom drama, Crownies, coincides with a renewed debate about Australian content. Ben Goldsmith has been watching them both
17 Aug 11 Comments (5)Matters of the heart
Compassion as a motivator for action is overrated, writes Klaus Neumann, but Go Back to Where You Came from is a reminder that it’s not a bad starting point
30 Jun 11 Comments (3)Versions of ourselves
Richard Johnstone considers the art of screen adaptation – with and without a literary source
02 Jun 11 Comments (0)Just a bit late, again
Ellie Rennie looks at what the federal budget means for community and Indigenous broadcasters
13 May 11 Comments (0)Norse Morse
DVD | Shane Maloney reviews a second series of Henning Mankell’s Wallander stories filmed for TV
11 Apr 11 Comments (2)Convergence: only one part of the media problem
What does the government really want from its review of media policy, asks Julian Thomas
07 Apr 11 Comments (1)Count to five and twenty
TV | Little Dorrit, a vivid tale for the times, works backwards from impact to cause, writes Ellie Rennie
24 Jun 10 Comments (0)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)Happy birthday, minister
TELEVISION | Yes Minister turns thirty this month. Terry Lane looks back at one of the great British TV comedies
02 Feb 10 Comments (1)Equal but different
Filmmaker John Hughes responds to Ruth Balint’s essay on history and television
22 Sep 09 Comments (0)Where are the historians?
History on Australian television doesn’t reflect what historians really know about the past, and the fault is on both sides, writes Ruth Balint
30 Jul 09 Comments (2)On the couch
DVD | Ellie Rennie reviews In Treatment series one: therapy from start to finish
27 Jul 09 Comments (2)This time it’s serious
Digital TV is already here, and it means Roger Federer might be replaced by blank screens in Mildura’s analogue households next year, writes Jock Given
16 Jul 09 Comments (3)The rise and rise of Jane Austen
No matter how bad the adaptation or how silly the praise, Jane Austen’s novels contain some of the truest insights into human behaviour ever committed to the page, writes Brian McFarlane
04 May 09 Comments (0)What have the Romans ever done for us?
DVD | Well, they might have kicked off TV’s next Golden Age. Ellie Rennie watches season two of Rome
20 Apr 09 Comments (1)
