Separate stories podcast

Warwick Thornton tackles the Western, a genre well suited to examining issues of race and colonisation. It's a reflective, often beautiful film.

This film works best as a raucous, high energy pastiche – but needed a script edit to bring out the plot’s true potential.

Joe Wright is a filmmaker who can make you almost forget you’ve seen it all before.

A round table discussion on Paolo Sorrentino's TV series The Young Pope, starring Jude Law.

Williams and Plummer are barely on screen together, but they are the engine room of the film, powering it along even as it loses its way

Newcomer Florence Pugh goes from a rosy cheeked teen bride to a woman capable of murder.

Luca Guadagnino’s luscious but meandering film is a pastel hued, pop music reverie, but perhaps it's a little too in love with itself.

Twin Peaks: The Return is one of my picks for binge watching over the summer.

This starts well but soon transforms into a Truman style film about a sinister dystopia.

Shot in lush, wide screen 35mm celluloid, this world seems like a magical kingdom impervious to the everyday adult problems of poverty, forced evictions, drugs and prostitution, until of course the bubble bursts.