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Meet the Critics: Clint Morris — PR wiz turned reviewer and Moviehole maestro

May 15, 2012 – 7:21 pm

Maintaining collaborative relationships with film publicists is a must for every professional film critic, and Clint Morris — long-time reviewer and founder of popular movie website Moviehole — is no exception. Where Morris differs from the pack is in his innate understanding of the PR industry and issues publicists face. After all, he used to [...]

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Meet the Critics: Evan Williams — veteran reviewer for The Oz, Walkey award winner and Order of Australia recipient

March 22, 2012 – 3:58 pm

If film reviewers are a dime a dozen these days – at least outside mainstream media outlets – those with CVs that look even a smidge like The Australian‘s Evan Williams are anything but. Williams, a critic for The Oz since 1981, has a particular fondness for political movies, even though he approaches them with [...]

Meet the Critics: Erin Free — steering the good ship FilmInk

March 6, 2012 – 2:22 pm

It’s a common perception of film critics: that they’re a bunch of insatiably word-hungry devourers of all kinds of cinema-related writing. But if your job involves writing about film, can reading other people’s commentary feel too much like work? A bit like you never left the office? Erin Free, editor of Australia’s longest running independent [...]

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Meet the Critics: Triple J and Channel 10 broadcaster Marc Fennell — that movie guy

February 21, 2012 – 4:00 pm

If you ever find yourself transcribing an interview with Marc Fennell, here’s a useful tip: slow the audio down. A lot. “I talk fast at the best of times,” the Red Bull guzzling broadcaster tells Cinetology over the phone while he sits on a hammock, at a family gathering for his grandmother’s 80th birthday. “I [...]

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Meet the Critics: SMH’s Sandra Hall — turning the page from literacy to films and back again

February 8, 2012 – 4:15 pm

It’s a line of attack sometimes directed at film reviewers, usually by those caught in the cross hairs of a critical lambasting: that critics are failed artists, desperate have-nots, individuals with nary a creative thought floating through their sanctimonious minds. Whilst Sandra Hall, who began reviewing films for The Sydney Morning Herald in 1996 and [...]

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Meet the Critics: Jake Wilson – no tele teen turned Age cine-scribe

January 25, 2012 – 1:42 pm

Jake Wilson’s journey into the realm of professional criticism is a traditional one, in many senses: a talented writer and a bona fide film geek spends an inordinate amount of hours during high school planted in front of screens and some years later lands a job at a newspaper from a combination of skill, experience [...]

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Meet the critics: Margaret Pomeranz — film reviewing Queen of the teev

January 18, 2012 – 10:47 am

Margaret Pomeranz, along with her equally famous television co-host David Stratton, is as close to film reviewing royalty as one finds in Australia. Her jangling earrings, funky fashion sense, endearing laugh and opened-minded approach to film criticism have become synonymous with cinema discussion Down Under since her impromptu debut on SBS’s The Movie Show in 1986. But [...]