BLOG / 2023 OSCAR PREDICTIONS, PART 1: PICTURE, ACTORS, ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY, SONG PLUS MORE

We've got a lot to say about this year's Academy Award contenders. So much, in fact, we've split our annual predictions piece into two (Click here)
We've got a lot to say about this year's Academy Award contenders. So much, in fact, we've split our annual predictions piece into two (Click here)
In the next round of fearless predictions, we lament what might have been for Todd Field and Tár, pinpoint one of the Aussies likely to win, and celebrate the 90 year-old set to take home his 6th 'golden guy' (Click here)
Adam Driver and Ariana Greenblatt take on the thunder lizards of Earth's prehistoric past in this pleasingly old-fashioned scifi adventure (Click here)
MIAMI FILM FESTIVAL 2023: The latest entry in the Sasq-ploitation genre is a suitably monster-y but surprisingly emotional creature feature (Click here)
Streamer STAN and broadcaster Channel 9 have secured stars Luke Arnold and Bella Heathcote for their adaptation of Chris Hammmer's bestselling thriller (Click here)
From his Perth base, John V Soto continues to roll out solid genre pics that get serious play globally. His latest is the action/thriller, Avarice (Click here)
Director Sarah Spillane and star Teagan Croft afford the seafaring accomplishments of Jessica Watson the respect and excitement they command in Netflix's rousing biopic (Click here)
An offbeat sci-fi indie, a German combat classic and an Irish ode to a disintegrating friendship lead a new-look batch of Academy Award hopefuls (Click here)
With COVID still keeping much of the world couchbound, small-screen content providers swung for the fences in 2022 (Click here)
All the moral issues that generally arise in 'vigilante cinema' rear their ugly heads in Matthew Holmes' skilfully crafted Australian indie, The Cost (Click here)
Theatres waited for patrons post-COVID...and waited...and waited. It took a healthy dose of '80s nostalgia to bring them back in droves, but it's not like there were no films worthy of your movie-going dollar in 2022 (Click here)
Cash-grab sequels, video game adaptations, pointless remakes - the usual Hollywood dreck makes our Worst Films of 2022 list. But there's some misbegotten indie sludge and lots of streamer filler, too (Click here)
Thirteen years on, James Cameron envisions a vast interplanetary aqua-scape...then plods through a 'family first' message film rife with diminishing returns (Click here)
With his creative input spanning multiple disciplines, there's no hiding for Russell Crowe when the finger-pointing starts on his latest, Poker Face (Click here)
The iconic Adelaide-based film collective Mercury CX is desperately fighting to keep its doors open (Click here)