Australia is heading for its own ‘Golden Age’ of TV

Australia is heading for its own ‘Golden Age’ of TV

Australia hasn’t yet reached the “Golden Age” of quality TV like America has, but the uptake of video-on-demand services and willingness of these services to produce local content could be changing that, writes Luke Buckmaster. In recent years the...
Apple Eyes Move Into Original Programming

Apple Eyes Move Into Original Programming

AP Photo/Jeff Chiu Andrew Wallenstein Co-Editor-in-Chief@awallenstein Sources indicate the Cupertino, Calif., colossus has held preliminary conversations in recent weeks with executives in Hollywood to suss out their interest in spearheading efforts to produce...
Room 237

Room 237

Director: Rodney Ascher Oh, you’re a big fan of Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining? Prepare to see the iconic director’s Stephen King adaptation in all new, mind-bending ways, thanks to documentary filmmaker Rodney Ascher’s bewildering,...
The HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival

The HBO Bryant Park Summer Film Festival

Hot dogs at Coney Island, piragua on every corner, and movies in Bryant Park—now entering its 24thyear, HBO’s Bryant Park Summer Film Festival presented by Bank of America has become a bonafide NYC tradition. Every Monday night from the middle of June to just before...
Tangerine

Tangerine

A reinvigorating reminder of what indie filmmaking can—and should—do, this bracingly brilliant new movie from Starlet writer-director Sean Baker (who co-wrote the script with Chris Bergoch) tells an L.A. story so florid and electric that it feels like a Pedro...