Stephen A Russell
@stephenarussell.bsky.social
Glasgow-born, Naarm (Melbourne)-based arts journalist and award-winning critic obsessed with film, theatre and a whole lot more. Live on the unceded lands of the Kulin Nation. Snorts generally included. He/him, quite gay. Substack: Orion's Shoulder
Oh, nothing much, just a chat with Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma stars Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder bit.ly/4fE4w4w
Final girl thrills – Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder on Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games
The stars of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma talk horror heritage, queer filmmaking and their favourite final girls.
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Oh, nothing much, just a chat with Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma stars Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder bit.ly/4fE4w4w
Final girl thrills – Gillian Anderson and Hannah Einbinder on Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games
The stars of Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma talk horror heritage, queer filmmaking and their favourite final girls.
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Judy Davis, Jacki Weaver and Miriam Margolyes as nuns on the run? Ok Holy Days, show me what ya got bit.ly/3TzEBlM
Holy Days review: hardly revelatory, but sweet | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games
Nat Boltt’s debut directorial feature sends Judy Davis, Jacki Weaver and Miriam Margolyes on a jolly Kiwi adventure
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Chooks, fake plastic trees and swears: Uncle Vanya like you've never seen/heard it before at MTC bit.ly/4wpbvUR
Uncle Vanya review: Chekhov's classic gets a barnstorming update
This Melbourne production of Uncle Vanya ups the laughter without losing sight of the class divide that fuelled Chekhov’s work.
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There are a heap of great Australian films in this year's @melbfilmfest.bsky.social program. I take a closer look at what's on offer here bit.ly/4vRFseT
MIFF 2026: the Australian films you definitely don't want to miss this year | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games
From fast fashion to alien invasions via haunting history, these Australian MIFF films are worth splashing out on.
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Up for some astonishing theatre? Run to Red Stitch to see Funeral Flowers, with a blooming brilliant performance by Lucy Ansell bit.ly/3Tub8K2
Review: Funeral Flowers at Red Stitch Actors' Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
This spectacular one-woman show at Red Stitch Actors' Theatre is a beautiful bouquet of brilliance.
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Had the loveliest chat with Doctor Zhivago and The Dresser star Tom Courtenay about his astonishing career across stage and screen, including his new movie, Queen at Sea, which debuted at Berlinale and now plays @melbfilmfest.bsky.social bit.ly/4yQddzY
Actor Tom Courtenay reflects on his brilliant career
From Doctor Zhivago to his heartbreaking role in the new film Queen at Sea, Tom Courtenay talks about his storied career and co-star Juliette Binoche’s terrifying driving.
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Had the loveliest chat with Doctor Zhivago and The Dresser star Tom Courtenay about his astonishing career across stage and screen, including his new movie, Queen at Sea, which debuted at Berlinale and now plays @melbfilmfest.bsky.social bit.ly/4yQddzY
Actor Tom Courtenay reflects on his brilliant career
From Doctor Zhivago to his heartbreaking role in the new film Queen at Sea, Tom Courtenay talks about his storied career and co-star Juliette Binoche’s terrifying driving.
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Whenever I watch a TV show or movie from before the 2000s, I am reminded that they knew how to light scenes properly back then. (They also knew how to record sound properly. I never have to strain to hear the dialogue over the music or sound effects.)
TVLine Pet Peeves: TV Shows That Are So Dark, We Can't See The Action - TVLine
In our inaugural TVLine Pet Peeves column, we take aim at a nagging annoyance for us: TV shows that are too dark to see.
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Up for some astonishing theatre? Run to Red Stitch to see Funeral Flowers, with a blooming brilliant performance by Lucy Ansell bit.ly/3Tub8K2
Review: Funeral Flowers at Red Stitch Actors' Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
This spectacular one-woman show at Red Stitch Actors' Theatre is a beautiful bouquet of brilliance.
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Boris Karloff and Elsa Lanchester behind the scenes of “The Bride of Frankenstein” 1935
Use of AI is like becoming a TERF. It's only the worst of all gays who do it.
Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · last wk.“boy george admits he used AI to create his new pro-israel song” is now a sentence we can say
There are a heap of great Australian films in this year's @melbfilmfest.bsky.social program. I take a closer look at what's on offer here bit.ly/4vRFseT
MIFF 2026: the Australian films you definitely don't want to miss this year | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games
From fast fashion to alien invasions via haunting history, these Australian MIFF films are worth splashing out on.
bit.ly
Chooks, fake plastic trees and swears: Uncle Vanya like you've never seen/heard it before at MTC bit.ly/4wpbvUR
Uncle Vanya review: Chekhov's classic gets a barnstorming update
This Melbourne production of Uncle Vanya ups the laughter without losing sight of the class divide that fuelled Chekhov’s work.
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'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.' Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
And here's my review of her awesome 80's set and super-gory movie bit.ly/4hhNoAw
Penny Lane is Dead review: a gripping ripper | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games
Penny Lane is Dead, the debut feature from special effect, hair and makeup artist Mia’Kate Russell, fuses punk rock with sunburnt Aussie horror.
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In this month’s ABC movies wrap, I summon the mayhem of Evil Dead Burn ab.co/4wWJraW
Adolescence creator tackles teen rehab very differently in The Good Boy
Emmy Award-winning Adolescence co-creator Stephen Graham tackles teen delinquency in a very different way in The Good Boy.
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Pretty Woman is a fun film adaptation, but in this difficult environment for musicals on Australian stages, will it be "Big, huuuge?" bit.ly/4hqvKwx
Can Pretty Woman nab the fairytale ending and make it on stage in Australia?
After the worrying early closures of Beetlejuice and Back to the Future, the movie-to-musical path is no longer a guarantee of success, but Pretty Woman: the Musical is giving it a shot.
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Olivier Assayas on why Jude Law makes a better Putin than the faceless man in the Kremlin ab.co/45hhn6m
The nefarious rise of Putin is skewered in this satirical drama
Cannes darling Oliver Assayas tackles the shadowy forces of our time in his latest film, The Wizard of the Kremlin.
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Mia'Kate Russell, the fabulously wicked makeup artist-turned-director behind feral fun slasher Penny Lane is Dead, shared her five favourite Aussie horror movies with me bit.ly/3TaF65H
5 great Australian horror movies, picked by the director of Penny Lane Is Dead
What scares an Australian horror director? Penny Lane is Dead filmmaker Mia-Kate Russell names the five local chillers she loves most.
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In this month’s ABC movies wrap, I summon the mayhem of Evil Dead Burn ab.co/4wWJraW
Adolescence creator tackles teen rehab very differently in The Good Boy
Emmy Award-winning Adolescence co-creator Stephen Graham tackles teen delinquency in a very different way in The Good Boy.
ab.co
Mia'Kate Russell, the fabulously wicked makeup artist-turned-director behind feral fun slasher Penny Lane is Dead, shared her five favourite Aussie horror movies with me bit.ly/3TaF65H
5 great Australian horror movies, picked by the director of Penny Lane Is Dead
What scares an Australian horror director? Penny Lane is Dead filmmaker Mia-Kate Russell names the five local chillers she loves most.
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Olivier Assayas on why Jude Law makes a better Putin than the faceless man in the Kremlin ab.co/45hhn6m
The nefarious rise of Putin is skewered in this satirical drama
Cannes darling Oliver Assayas tackles the shadowy forces of our time in his latest film, The Wizard of the Kremlin.
ab.co
Pretty Woman is a fun film adaptation, but in this difficult environment for musicals on Australian stages, will it be "Big, huuuge?" bit.ly/4hqvKwx
Can Pretty Woman nab the fairytale ending and make it on stage in Australia?
After the worrying early closures of Beetlejuice and Back to the Future, the movie-to-musical path is no longer a guarantee of success, but Pretty Woman: the Musical is giving it a shot.
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Want savage laughs wrapped up in a tragedy set to marvellous music? Visit Grey Gardens at fortyfivedownstairs bit.ly/4fryM0W
Review: Grey Gardens at Fortyfivedownstairs in Melbourne ✭✭✭✭
This haunting and humorous musical of the cult hit doco does justice to the complicated history of the Kennedy-cursed Edies.
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Want savage laughs wrapped up in a tragedy set to marvellous music? Visit Grey Gardens at fortyfivedownstairs bit.ly/4fryM0W
Review: Grey Gardens at Fortyfivedownstairs in Melbourne ✭✭✭✭
This haunting and humorous musical of the cult hit doco does justice to the complicated history of the Kennedy-cursed Edies.
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