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Enter the World of Action Star Scott Adkins with Ninja: Shadow of a Tear

04/10/2021

It used to be that action movies had some grunt under the hood, but ballooning budgets and the need to attract big audiences mean that Hollywood blockbusters have lost some of their edge. Mainstream American a...

Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed Casts New Light on an Ancient Mystery

Travis Johnson

04/10/2021

Stonehenge has stood on Salisbury Plain in southern England for perhaps 5000 years and has been an object of wonder and mystery for almost as long. A burial monument, it’s at the centre of a vast network of...

Westerns Have Never Been Wilder at SBS

Travis Johnson

04/10/2021

While technically the Western as a literary genre predates cinema, what with all the cheap, thrilling dime novels that made the likes of Wild Bill Hickok and Wyatt Earp famous, Westerns are synonymous with cin...

Meet Charlie Agar, The Amiable Apiarist Known as The Bee Whisperer

Travis Johnson

04/10/2021

I like bees, I understand they’re a vital part of the ecology, and honey tastes great. But I’m allergic to bee stings. I’ve managed to avoid them since the age of four, when one of the bright-striped buggers m...

30 years on, The Commitments is a Rousing Working-Class Comedy for the Ages

Travis Johnson

04/10/2021

It’s strange how popular movies can just disappear from the culture after a while. Last year I had a yen to revisit The Commitments, the late Alan Parker’s 1991 film about the brief rise and even more ...

Discover the Various Vampires Currently Roaming SBS

Travis Johnson

22/09/2021

SBS is currently dealing with an infestation of vampire movies. Purge from your mind all Universal- or Hammer-derived imagery, though; you’ll find no (well, very little) formal eveningwear here, no bats or wol...

The Magic of Mads Mikkelsen

Travis Johnson

13/09/2021

“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

Travis Johnson

13/09/2021

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

Travis Johnson

13/09/2021

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

Travis Johnson

13/09/2021

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...

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Enter the World of Action Star Scott Adkins with Ninja: Shadow of a Tear

Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed Casts New Light on an Ancient Mystery

Westerns Have Never Been Wilder at SBS

No Capes! The Best Non-Superhero Comic Book Movies Ever Made

Discover the Various Vampires Currently Roaming SBS

The Magic of Mads Mikkelsen

You may live in Australia, but you've never been to Straya

Richard Donner, father of the modern superhero film

The Periodic Table of Awesome – Friday Fast and Furious Fun Times

I Lived in a Murder House

VHS Tracking #13 is Out!

Cyberpunk Cinema: An Online Panel (Updated!)

Dentistry, Deadlines, and the Ol’ Post-Festival Malaise

Legendary indie film mogul Lloyd Kaufman is still shaking things up

Meet Charlie Agar, The Amiable Apiarist Known as The Bee Whisperer

James Gunn talks The Suicide Squad: “Most of us are closer to Polka Dot Man than we are to Captain America”

G.I. Joe creator talks Snake Eyes: “Even the kid that went out for coffee turned it down!”

Noah Hutton Talks Lapsis, the Gig Economy and Blue-Collar Sci-Fi

Jeremy Saulnier: Chilling in the Green Room

Interview: Anthony O’Connor on Straya

MDFF Review: Wongar

Review: Midnight Mass (2021)

30 years on, The Commitments is a Rousing Working-Class Comedy for the Ages

Review: Fires (2021)

Review: Star Wars Visions (2021)

Review: Nitram (2021)

Review: Kate (2021)

Enter the World of Action Star Scott Adkins with Ninja: Shadow of a Tear

Stonehenge: The Lost Circle Revealed Casts New Light on an Ancient Mystery

Westerns Have Never Been Wilder at SBS

Meet Charlie Agar, The Amiable Apiarist Known as The Bee Whisperer

30 years on, The Commitments is a Rousing Working-Class Comedy for the Ages

Discover the Various Vampires Currently Roaming SBS

The Magic of Mads Mikkelsen

This and That: Down Under Redemption Stories with Broke and Mad Bastards

The Hopeful Apocalypse of War of the Worlds

From Dark Prophecies to Timeline Police, Look to the Future with These Prophetic Adventures

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