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  • Body Blow (2025)
    Review preview for Body Blow

    Immersive and intense, the more so because of its roots in a brutal history of gaybashing by Sydney cops.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    An undercover cop finds his commitment to the force tested when he falls for a young twink deep in debt to a vicious drug lord in this kinky neon-noir.
  • Tears Of The Sun (2003)
    Review preview for Tears Of The Sun

    As well as being politically to the right of Ghengis Khan, this is an ugly, racially disturbing, violent and inappropriate film.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1.5 out of 5
    Commandos tough it out in Nigeria.

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Freeform Will Niava on grief, new immigrant experiences and Jazz Infernal

In silence Emir Kumova on child marriage in Türkiye, moral challenges and making The Witness

Taking a ride into liminal spaces Katharine Round on making documentary Ghost Town

Flying blind Michael Woloson and Scott Tinkham on improvisation, experimental writing and Littermates

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