The Magic of Mads Mikkelsen
“Who the hell is this guy?” is the most common response to first seeing a Mads Mikkelsen performance. Some folks first had that reaction when he starred in the first two instalments of Nicolas Windin...
This and That: Down Under Redemption Stories with Broke and Mad Bastards
How far can you fall and still be able to get back up? How long and hard is the road back to grace? Redemption tales have an irresistible fascination for us as viewers and as human beings. We all, ideally, wan...
The Hopeful Apocalypse of War of the Worlds
We certainly do like our dystopian speculative fiction here at SBS, don’t we? Where else can you catch up with the misogynistic madness of Gilead before watching cyborg dogs hunt down the last ragged remnants ...
From Dark Prophecies to Timeline Police, Look to the Future with These Prophetic Adventures
William Shatner ought to know a thing or two about the future – so it’s fitting he is our guide to the ancient art of precognition in "Dark Prophesies", part of the new season of his quirky series The Unx...
Myths, Man and Contradictions: Why Lawrence of Arabia Continues to Fascinate Us
The broad facts of the life of Thomas Edward Lawrence are familiar to anyone with a passing knowledge of 20th century history, and certainly anyone with a love of classic cinema. As recounted in David ...
Review: Impeachment: American Crime Story (2021)
First there was The People Vs O.J. Simpson, and it was very good, offering up a gripping dramatisation of one of the most infamous murder trials of the 90s and stunning turns from an ensemble that included Joh...
Review: Streamline (2021)
Sport can make for great onscreen drama for fairly obvious reasons—the competition is right there, the stakes are clear, there will in all likelihood be a winner and a loser by the time the credits roll. Bu...
Review: The Painter and the Thief (2020)
Czech artist Barbora Kysilkova first met Norwegian drug addict and petty criminal Karl-Bertil Nordland in 2015 when he was on trial for stealing two of her paintings. In the dock, the heavily tattooed, feral-l...
Mysteries of the Sphinx Returns to Antiquity’s Favourite Riddle
Is any ancient civilisation more enduringly fascinating than Egypt? Egypt was already old when the Greek city-states and Republican (and later Imperial) Rome had their heyday, and scholars from those civilisat...
Review: Candyman (2021)
Artist Anthony McCoy (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II) has all the trappings of success in his life, including a beautiful and gifted art curator girlfriend, Brianna (Teyonah Parris), and a luxurious condo in a recently...