Luke Buckmaster

Luke Buckmaster · 3-min read This bumpy and chaotic family film is centred around a child who feels different because she's normal.

Jon Bell’s bold and daring film about a mother who is stalked by a child-stealing bogeyman is a little underdeveloped

Plus Ted Danson goes undercover in a nursing home, an Aussie Christmas film with a cute dog, and the skimpy, zany world of Barbarella

The 85-year-old critic has finished his huge history of Australian cinema from 1990 to 2020 – which involved rewatching 650 films. But which beloved classic has he changed his mind about?

The former tennis champion is candid about her father’s abuse in this visceral and often sad documentary

Time has been kind to this pacey mash-up of Groundhog Day and action movie, in which a reluctant soldier fights aliens and dies in a seemingly endless time loop

Luke Buckmaster · 4-min read How to Make Gravy is a rare example of a film that originated as a song – in this case, the beloved ballad by Paul Kelly.

TV, South Korea, 2024 – out 26 December Squid Game was a smash-hit sensation nobody saw coming, although the dystopian survival tournament

Plus Denis Villeneuve’s epic Dune: Part Two, a snackable TV series set in the world of Inside Out and a massively underrated Australian drama

This soupy Christmas drama based on Paul Kelly’s song tips into corny sentimentalism – and comes dangerously close to suggesting that gravy is actually magic