This week's round-up of Emmy winners and picks for streaming shows, film, TV, books, exhibitions and more. On the small screen This week’s dress fest The Emmy’s celebrated more than just thigh-high splits, fake tans and frozen smiles (or maybe I’m getting confused with the Bronlow Medal in Australia); anyway there were
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Friday On My Mind
The Nightingale: Feminine exploration of Australia’s violent Colonial past
The Nightingale is an astonishing new Australian film from writer/director Jennifer Kent in cinemas now. It’s the follow up to The Babadook, Kent’s critically acclaimed 2014 film. It traces the story of Clare, a young Irish convict woman free after serving her sentence is seeking revenge for the violent acts committed
What to Watch, Read & Listen: September
Tarantino has a questionable record in #MeToo context, should we boycott his film?
Christina Lee, Curtin University This story contains spoilers for Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. While promoting Once Upon a Time in Hollywood at the Cannes Film Festival, filmmaker Quentin Tarantino was asked why Margot Robbie’s character – murdered actress Sharon Tate – was given so few lines. An “angry-looking Tarantino”, as