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At the beginning of each month, Guardian Australia editors pick out the new local books they’ve already read and loved – or can’t wait to get their hands on

Our year-end coverage continues with a look at the best performances of 2021. Rather than divide categories into supporting or lead or by gender, we've written

In a year marked by a recovering box office and distributors experimenting with a wide variety of types of releases, what does an overlooked film constitute?

The best films of 2021 so far Alerts Clockwise from top left: Judas And The Black Messiah (Photo: Warner Bros.), The Mitchells Vs. The Machines (Image: Netflix), No Sudden Move (Photo: HBO Max), Saint Maud (Photo: A24), The Disciple (Photo: Netflix), In The Heights (Photo: Warner Bros.), Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar (Photo: Lionsgate) Graphic: Natalie Peeples It’s difficult to say, from the limited vantage of our present moment, if movie culture is going to return to the “normal” of a ...

Changing The Game (Hulu 6/1), a festival-feted documentary that follows three trans teen athletes. Woman In Motion: Nichelle Nichols, Star Trek, And The Remaking Of NASA (Paramount+ 6/3) goes where no Trekkie-courting doc has gone before. Rat Film director Theo Anthony returns with All Light, Everywhere (select theaters 6/4), an essay film about the relationship between camera technology and human biases. A struggling actress flails through the aftermath of a relationship with a counterterro...

Joe DeNardo and Paul Felten craft a mysterious New York thriller with mumblecore sensibilities.

Photo: Grasshopper Film If all the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players, then it stands to reason that “acting” is neither a craft nor an occupation, but rather a state of being. It’s certainly true for Stephanie (Stephanie Hayes), the elusive protagonist of Joe Denardo and Paul Felten’s Slow Machine, a struggling actress who is always performing regardless of whether she’s on the clock. She glides in and out of various environments, speaking in different accen...

Rolling Stone Menu Chloe Sevigny, Eleanor Friedberger Star in ‘Slow Machine’ Trailer Film partially depicts recording of Friedberger’s “Your Word” By Slow Machine, a thriller film co-directed by Joe Denardo and Paul Felten that saw its premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam last year. The film also screened at the New York Film Festival last October. Slow Machine centers on Stephanie (played by Hayes), a disillusioned actress whose tumultuous breakup with an ...

"Whats her deal?" Grasshopper Film has unveiled a trailer for an intriguing, experimental indie film titled Slow Machine, the feature directorial debut of filmmakers Joe Denardo & Paul Felten. This premiered at the 2020 Rotterdam Film Festival last year, and also played at the New York Film Festival and Vienna Film Festival. After a brief relationship with intelligence agent Gerard ends terribly, tired & disillusioned actress Stephanie hides in a house where a band is working on a record, whic...

Chloë Sevigny has been the picture of a doting mother when shes been seen out in public with her nine-month-old son Vanja. And on Wednesday the Golden Globe-winning actress spent some quality time with her boy during a stroll with friends in the SoHo neighborhood in Downtown New York City. The Boys Dont Cry star, 46, pushed him down the sidewalk in a stroller as the day gave way to night, along with the plunging winter temperatures.  Bonding time: Chloë Sevigny, 46, spent some quality time ...