Books & Arts
30 March 2024
A major new series about the postwar world poses the inevitable question: has the cold war returned?
Books & Arts
22 March 2024
Is British comedy pervaded by the worldview of the Oxbridge graduate?
International
22 February 2024
How did this candid drama series make it past the censors?
International
9 February 2024
Will burgeoning cricket franchises kill the institutions they rely on?
Books & Arts
9 February 2024
Packed with back story, a generation of TV themes showed producers to be taking music more seriously
Books & Arts
1 December 2023
Fargo continues to turn expectations upside down
Books & Arts
2 October 2023
Like the desks they sit behind, newsreaders have grown in stature as the medium has evolved
Books & Arts
24 August 2023
In its attempt to be light-hearted, Kitchen Cabinet has steered into dangerous waters
Books & Arts
27 July 2023
The physicist’s own words provide a commentary on conflicting depictions
International
10 July 2023
Life follows art in the streaming service’s new political series
Books & Arts
23 June 2023
Utopia darkens, but Barack Obama takes a sunnier view of what we do all day
Books & Arts
30 May 2023
Succession’s conclusion highlights a paradox
Books & Arts
19 May 2023
A new breed of advisers is helping bridge TV’s gap between reality and dramatisation
Books & Arts
2 May 2023
What’s missing from Marco Bellocchio’s Exterior Night is as compelling as what’s on the screen
Books & Arts
27 April 2023
Two men, five books, one film
Books & Arts
12 April 2023
A provincial professor tries to cut through
Books & Arts
1 March 2023
Quantity is trumping quality as services compete for viewers
Books & Arts
24 January 2023
A fragment of Edgar Allan Poe’s prose has become a compelling psychological drama
Books & Arts
20 December 2022
With holidays looming, our TV critic reviews three addictive series
Books & Arts
22 November 2022
Rationalism and magical thinking contend in The Wonder
Books & Arts
25 October 2022
Kenneth Branagh portrays the former PM’s behaviour with startlingly accuracy. But what’s going on behind the eyes?
Essays & Reportage
24 October 2022
Despite its extremes, Mparntwe Alice Springs still maintains a grip
Essays & Reportage
10 October 2022
A former foreign correspondent watches Bali 2002
Books & Arts
3 September 2022
Director Dylan River, producer Greer Simpkin and casting director Anousha Zarkesh talk to Inside Story about creating an ensemble with chemistry
Books & Arts
11 December 2021
A thread of wealth, power and celebrity ran through three of 2021’s high-profile season returns
National Affairs
8 December 2021
Why has the National Film and Sound Archive suddenly found political favour?
Books & Arts
16 November 2021
Truths, half-truths and ripping yarns come together in Miriam Margolyes’s This Much Is True
Books & Arts
27 October 2021
Billed as a horror story, Midnight Mass audaciously explores an isolated community
Books & Arts
4 October 2021
Do the makers of ABC TV’s Fires have enough critical distance from their subject?
Books & Arts
3 September 2021
The Newsreader shows an industry, and a country, on the cusp of change