Film

His outsider upbringing means Tony Ayres, the brains behind television series such as The Slap, Nowhere Boys and an upcoming drama based on Erin Patterson, is drawn to complex characters.

Every year, the Australian cinema calendar features more language-specific events such as the Greek Film Festival, attracting native speakers and art-house cinephiles alike.

The sequel to the 1984 cult mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap is one long bum note.

Offerings from Hikari and Chloé Zhao at the Toronto International Film Festival – traditionally a rehearsal for the Oscars – had audiences reaching for the tissues.

For their acclaimed debut, Sorry, Baby, comedian and actor Eva Victor is the writer, director and star of a film about trauma that is both deeply moving and funny.

This year’s Melbourne International Film Festival featured some great films – including a stunning retrospective of Chantal Akerman – but where was the risk?

Ari Aster’s pandemic film, Eddington, might be the first Hollywood movie to successfully channel the malignant forces that broke humanity’s brain.

Samuel Van Grinsven’s gothic horror Went Up the Hill possesses a stern, terrifying beauty but fails in its narrative.

Michael Shanks’s supernatural relationship drama Together is less body horror than an angsty study of co-dependency.

David Cronenberg’s new film – his most personal – brings grief and a surprising touch of metaphysics to his complex exploration of body horror.