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‘In Our Blood’ shares Australia’s journey through HIV

‘In Our Blood’ shares Australia’s journey through HIV

The ABC documents Australia’s response to the AIDS pandemic with the creative and emotional new series On Our Blood.  While the government and LGBTIQA+ communities’ response the discovery of HIV has been documented from a UK perspective in the brilliant series It’s a Sin while the US story is covered in The Normal Heart and Pose. Here was delve into Australia’s […]

Review | Unmet desires rise to the surface in ‘The Blue Caftan’

Review | Unmet desires rise to the surface in ‘The Blue Caftan’

The Blue Caftan | Dir: Maryam Touzani | ★ ★ ★ ★ ½  Halim (Saleh Bakri) is one of the last ‘maalems’ or masters who makes caftans completely by hand, without the aid of a sewing machine. It is a skill passed down from his father and is a slow process. When a wealthy woman orders a […]

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‘Star Trek Discovery’ will end with its fifth season but fans will have to wait

‘Star Trek Discovery’ will end with its fifth season but fans will have to wait

Star Trek Discovery will end with its upcoming fifth season. Paramount+ will be bringing the popular series to a close, and in a frustrating move for fans, the final season has been pushed back until 2024. Screen industry publication Variety broke the news that the series is coming to an end. The show is the first in […]

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Perth queer horror series ‘The Curse of Baba Yaga’ coming to TikTok

Perth queer horror series ‘The Curse of Baba Yaga’ coming to TikTok

Perth’s first teen horror TikTok series The Curse of Baba Yaga hits the small screens of smartphones worldwide from Friday 7 April. The Curse of Baba Yaga was one of three successful projects selected for development funding from Screenwest and Screen Australia through their Out Now funding initiative focussing on LGBQTIA+ stories that highlight diversity in the screen industry. […]

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Fifty years ago Carlotta made history on Australian television

Fifty years ago Carlotta made history on Australian television

Australian television made history in 1973 when the fabulous Carlotta joined the cast of adult soap opera Number 96. Credited as Carolle Lea, the famous cabaret performer became the first actor who is transgender to play a transgender character. It was a world first. The show was certainly pushing boundaries in the early 1970’s featuring […]

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Queer coming-of-age doco among German Film Festival highlights

Queer coming-of-age doco among German Film Festival highlights

The 2023 German Film Festival proudly presented by Palace, will screen an impressive selection of the best in contemporary German cinema. This year’s program, presented in association with German Films, will screen from 4 – 24 May at Luna Leederville, Luna on SX and Palace Cinemas Raine Square. First highlights include two exciting films direct from the 2023 […]

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‘The Betoota Advocate Presents’ explores rise and fall of Hillsong

‘The Betoota Advocate Presents’ explores rise and fall of Hillsong

Satirical Aussie news outlet The Betoota Advocate is bringing the nation’s most polarising news stories in the Paramount+ Australian original series The Betoota Advocate Presents. On creating this original series, Editor At Large, Errol Parker and Editor, Clancy Overall said: “As Australia’s oldest and favourite newspaper, The Betoota Advocate has knocked back countless offers to make all manner of TV shows […]

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Things get wild in first trailer for ‘Yellowjackets’ season two

Things get wild in first trailer for ‘Yellowjackets’ season two

After ending season one with no shortage of cliffhangers, Paramount+ have released the first look at Yellowjackets’ wild second season. Set to a haunting cover of No Doubt’s Just A Girl by Florence and the Machine, the show its dual stories of the 90s and today, following the lives of a girls soccer team who find themselves trapped […]

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Review | ‘Lie With Me’ a tribute to first love and perils of hiding it

Review | ‘Lie With Me’ a tribute to first love and perils of hiding it

Lie With Me | Dir: Olivier Peyon | ★ ★ ★ ★ ★  Based on a hugely successful autobiographical novel by Philippe Bresson, this emotionally charged film takes us to the picturesque countryside of the south west of France. Acclaimed author Stéphane Belcourt (Guillaume de Tonquebec) returns to the small village of his childhood after 35 years, as […]

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Review | ‘Living’ encourages us to reflect on our life and legacy

Review | ‘Living’ encourages us to reflect on our life and legacy

Living | Dir: Oliver Hermanus | ★ ★ ★ ★ ½  This very British film tells a simple story of an ordinary man whose dream turns into an oppressive trap, and it is only at the end of his life that he manages to connect with some of the small delights that the world has to offer. […]

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