Stephen A Russell

💯 it’s all in the context

Anemone review: Ronan Day-Lewis’ debut directorial feature is a slog | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games Not even Daniel Day-Lewis’ leading turn can help Anemone rise above its ploddingly verbose dialogue.

I don’t always think the nepo baby cuss is fair. Kids should follow their dreams even if their parents open the door.

But fuck me, Day-Lewis jr’s Anemone is a chore I’m not sure would be made without daddy bit.ly/4bCA8VP

You can tell how much the Albanese govt cares about the poor victims of the Iranian regime by the way they ... change visa laws to stop them seeking protection here.

🚨🚨🚨 10 days til 1000 WOMEN IN HORROR premieres on Shudder!

In the lead up, here's some lovely Letterboxd reviews from our fest run, this one from bona fide queen @cinemelo.bsky.social

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Best International Film Oscar-hopefuls finally hit Australian cinemas Australians will also finally be able to catch Sirât and The Voice of Hind Rajab, two movies that will be vying for Best International Film at the Academy Awards next month.

There's still time to vroom vroom into cinemas and catch the way sexier (and far more interesting) than Wuthering Heights oddity that is Harry Lighton's Box Hill adaptation, Pillion, which I reviewed in this ABC round-up 🏍️ bit.ly/4bnqwx5

The Plague review: a creepy coming of age movie | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games Charlie Polinger’s debut feature The Plague understands the brutal games of teenage boys all too well.

Joel Edgerton pops up as a well-meaning, if pretty ineffectual, water polo coach in Charlie Polinger’s nerve-wracking coming-of-age-as-creepy horror movie, The Plague bit.ly/4b4MJkF

Post your favourite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only.

Absolutely shambolic. Littleproud by name...
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These young women helped Albanese get elected. Now? They’re done with him Why did the prime minister's 'difficult' description of former Australian of the Year Grace Tame spark such a visceral reaction from young women?

“It’s not even that we’ve turned away, but that the Labor party has currently proven itself to be inconsistent with [our] values,” Yasmin Poole tells Crikey. www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/10/a...

The massive rise in Islamophobia, consciously fuelled by large sections of the media, is a national disgrace.
I'd love to hear the PM and LOTO speak out about this and the dangers of white supremacy but ....crickets

Albanese is joining an illegal and violent war that has no exit plan and will only lead to more death and destruction for ordinary people, while defence companies, billionaires and oil giants rake in billions.

You can’t even spell the subject

Quit your job then, moron

Too many of the major comedy ‘celebrities’ are sex pests

The movie Jennifer Lawrence (and Martin Scorsese) had to get made After reading Die My Love in book club, Martin Scorsese knew it had to be made into a film. Now it's rewriting cinema's portrayal of womanhood and postpartum depression.

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Alice Maio Mackay interview: on The Serpent's Skin and finding trans power in horror | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games The young Adelaide director talks to ScreenHub about The Serpent's Skin and building trans solidarity in the film industry.

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The movie that pushed Rose Byrne to the edge of motherhood The Sydney-born movie star discusses how her creative partnership with If I had Legs I'd Kick You director Mary Bronstein has opened the Oscars conversation.

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Superstar Twiggy on the documentary of her storied life For the first time, the much-loved English model, actress and singer tells her own story in a new documentary by Sadie Frost.

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New doco is a clarion call to care more about Australia's aging population Filmmaker Sue Thomson recently lost her mum. But before that, they made the beautiful documentary Careless together, which explores Australia's aged care system mess.

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Director Sophie Hyde confronts family matters in Jimpa Sophie Hyde’s Jimpa, starring Olivia Colman and John Lithgow, lightly fictionalises her own family’s life.

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Preaching kindness, Amanda Seyfried went all in on her latest role The Oscar-nominated star adored working with director Mona Fastvold to resurrect an astonishing religious figure in The Testament of Ann Lee.

In celebration of International Women’s Day, here’s some awesome chats with incredible filmmakers I’ve been blessed with recently ab.co/407dFd7

That was an Inspiral Carpets ref, btw.
Cos Gorton & Denton… Ergh. Nvm.

And I love you xx

It's ALWAYS a great day to read the mighty AHN xx

Hating on animals is worse than hating on the arts imho (this awards season really has unmasked some twats)

Speak up On the devastating clarity of Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab

The Voice of Hind Rajab’s testimony is integral to this refusal to allow her voice to be annihilated. This reconstruction is a refusal to allow her murderers to rewrite her story with their lies bit.ly/40O8nU2

I know Hollywood has long been complicit in the myth-making of empire but this is truly horrifying. Filmmakers have fought and critiqued this vision for the USA, even from within the system, sometimes at great cost. We can never accept the idea this what art is or how it should be used. #filmsky

Adomako Aman’s Dancing in the Dark is about Black and Brown club culture.

Obvs bunch of ballroom docs where the music is integral. Strike a Pose, Paris is Burning etc

Queercore: How to Punk a Revolution

Disco: Soundtrack of a Revolution

Taylor Mac’s 24-Decade History of Popular Music

Love all the responses and tryna think of some queer examples, with Queer as Punk a recent and fantastic look at religion, politics, gender, representation and music in Malaysia. Daring in spirit if not necessarily style, but gorgeous and empowered.

Tomorrow's wrap-around front page of The National.

This is the human cost.

As the UK Government talks a big game of being ready to join the US and Israel in war, over 150 families are mourning their children.

Their little girls were mostly aged 7-12.