Five years after his silent film experiment, Dr. Plonk, Australian maverick director Rolf De Heer returns to cinema screes with a tale of suburban gothic that alternates between the hysterical and the downright disturbing.

Film Blerg’s companion piece to The Straits (airing Thursday nights on ABC) focuses on crime in the Australian media. Week 3 of Thievish Thursdays looks at the very successful Animal Kingdom

Conciliation seems like a great idea to take some strain off the legal system. It is an idea that is flawed however.

Honest is the best policy. Or so I’m told. So, in keeping with this idea, I freely admit that when I saw the trailer for Red Dog, I was not excited, or even anticipating to see this film.

By James Madden. Viewed 09.06.10 Amidst the buzz and the hoopla that so rarely hits the Australian film industry comes David Michod’s feature film debut Animal Kingdom in a blaze of glory. Loosely based on the Walsh Street Murders in the 1990s, Animal Kingdom centers around the Cody family. When Josh “J”‘s mother dies of a heroin overdose, grandmother Jeanine [...]