Film & TV posts
The 10 bestselling DVDs at Readings in 2019
Our bestselling DVDs range from a much-loved, literary inspired detective series, to a stunning love story set against the backdrop of WWII, to an inspiring documentary about how to face the realities of climate change. Two DVDs about music icons …
The best DVDs of 2019
HBO’s chilling dramatisation of the April 1986 Ukraine nuclear power plant disaster is…
Staff recommend Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander voices
Sunday night in front of the telly
Based on the book of the same name by James Baldwin, If Beale Street Could Talk is a heartbreaking love story set in Harlem in the era of Ray Charles and…
Books coming to the screen in 2019
This classic Australian story was first published by Colin Thiele in 1964. After their mother is shot, Mike ‘Storm Boy’ Kingley rescues three pelican chicks and …
The 10 bestselling DVDs at Readings in 2018
Our bestselling DVDs range from crime, drug addiction and historical dramas, to stories exploring the power of books; from moving tributes on the lives of creative geniuses, to the tale of an aircraft that changed the world.
Several of the following…
The best DVDs of 2018
Northern Italy, 1983 – swimming, peaches, long summer days. Luca Guadagnino’s swoony adaptat…
10 books to read before you see the films
On Chesil Beach is a masterful short novel from Ian McEwan. It is July 1962. Edward and Florence, young innocents married that morning, arrive at a hotel on the Dorset coast. At dinner in their rooms they struggle to suppress their private fears of the wedding night to come and, unbeknownst to them both, the events of the evening will haunt them for the rest of th…
Our top picks for MIFF 2018
Whenever the Miff guide comes out the first thing I do is pore over the pictures looking for signs of queer content. This year I am happy to report that I will be heading off to …
MIFF 2018 picks for kids & teens
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Beautifully hand-drawn by animator and co-director Patri…