Richard Hartley

Technology, Photography & Film

Main menu

Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content
  • Home
  • About
    • About Richard Hartley
    • Richard Hartley’s Work
    • Location
  • Film
  • Tech
  • Digital Media
  • Publishing
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn
  • Contact

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

Dry Leaf review – three-hour amble around the football pitches of Georgia in search of a daughter

Despite its interesting low-res look, Alexandre Koberidze’s mystifying film is needlessly contrived

‘More relevant now than ever’: how Virginia Woolf recaptured the cultural zeitgeist

With an adaptation of Night and Day hitting cinemas, the pioneering author’s work continues to inspire audiences

‘Distressingly beautiful and disorienting’: the Willem Dafoe film that only one person can see at a time

A porter escorted Nick Buckley to his seat in an empty theatre in Hobart. Loris Gréaud’s new movie, part of Dark Mofo festival, left him questioning everything

‘Why would you put a toxic product into the hands of a young child?’: director turned activist Beeban Kidron on why big tech needs its ‘tobacco moment’

In her work as an online safety campaigner, the baroness and Bridget Jones director has seen things she can never unsee – and she’s furious at the tech overlords doing nothing to stop the abuse

‘A movie for everyone, not just Drag Race fans’: stars of drag comedy Stop! That! Train! on making the summer’s funniest film

Director Adam Shankman and drag queen actors explain putting a brilliantly madcap twist on Airplane! style parody

The Guide #247: Does World Cup fever leave you in a cold sweat? Here’s how to escape the footie

Are you indifferent to office sweepstakes and bored by endless stats? Fear not – there’s a bounty of film, TV and music being released this summer to take your mind off the on-pitch action

From Olivia Rodrigo to The Fall of Sir Douglas Weatherford: your complete entertainment guide to the week ahead

The multiple Grammy-winner muses tunefully on love’s ups and downs, while Peter Mullan stars as a local historian in a new comedy drama

What World Cup? US celebrities get their fashion kicks from the Knicks

Taylor Swift and Timothée Chalamet lead the charge in blue and orange, as courtside style hits a ‘memeable’ peak

‘I only had this father, and he’s gone’: Wafa Mustafa’s fight for truth and justice for Syria’s missing

With more than 177,000 people forcibly disappeared since 2011, short doc Maybe Tomorrow captures ‘the violence of waiting’ experienced by family

Obsessed with Obsession: how a low-budget horror changed the game in Hollywood

The $750,000 relationship horror about a cursed wish is set to outgross a new Star Wars movie, energizing Gen Z audiences and creating a rare cultural conversation

Brad Pitt in the frame as older men embrace ‘hot professor’ glasses

‘Late life’ male celebrities are turning the need for spectacles into a style statement as they refuse to disappear into fashion invisibility

Masters of the Universe is a box office flop. Can they really be serious about a sequel?

By the power of Grayskull, Amazon MGM has the power to revive a franchise that hasn’t been big since Choppers were the coolest bikes in town

David Gamble obituary

Other lives: Film editor who won a Bafta for his work on Shakespeare in Love

They Will Kill You to Aftersun: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

Zazie Beetz kicks ass in a relentlessly gory horror thriller, while Paul Mescal will absolutely break your heart. Plus: Wonka!

Diane Keaton’s nail clippers for $960: what’s behind the new boom in celebrity estate auctions?

With beloved stars’ personal items increasingly up for grabs after they die, a new generation of fans are bidding on everything from bowler hats to dog bowls

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

About

  • About Richard Hartley
  • Richard Hartley’s Work
  • Location

Film & Tech News

  • How Australian hero Karl Stefanovic took a sharp turn to the right – and fell from TV stardom
  • OpenAI staggers AI model release after Trump administration request
  • ‘Fork in the road’: CEO of Amazon-backed Rivian on why carmakers need to invest in EVs
  • Prime Day ends today – here are the 52 best deals to scoop up before they’re gone
  • O what a tangled web: unweaving the weirdest fan rumours surrounding Spider-Man: Brand New Day
  • The best fans to keep you cool in 2026 – tried and tested
  • Outrage as woman jailed for three years after criticising Somali government online
  • ‘I’m a soldier. I don’t have a gun, but I have a pen and a camera’: Mahnaz Mohammadi on fighting the Iranian regime
  • As billionaires’ wealth soars, US workers struggle: ‘The rich keep getting richer for no good reason’
  • Enola Holmes 3 to Bang My Box: The Robin Byrd Story – the seven best films to watch on TV this week
  • Glastonbury the Movie review – thirty years on, the sunset of a hippy dream in all its glory
  • Wanted: a new PM, a new James Bond, a new Doctor – and a UK that can agree on its leading characters
  • Strung review – far-fetched thriller awkwardly mixes Blumhouse and Tyler Perry
  • A little bird told her: scientist wins $100,000 prize for decoding birdsong
  • The Mission review – a surgeon saves lives in war-torn Gaza in a visceral portrait of human endurance
  • Australians to pay at least 20% more for iPads and Macbooks after Apple hikes prices citing AI
  • California billionaire tax will appear on ballot after deadline for deal passes
  • Apple raises iPad and MacBook prices, blaming cost of chips amid AI boom
  • Pride review – solidarity between gay activists and miners in a magnificent musical
  • Little Brother review – Netflix comedy is neither weird or funny enough for star Eric André
  • Whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams sues Meta over attempts to ‘silence’ her
  • You can still get an Apple Watch for its lowest price ever. Here’s which to buy
  • Tiny yet powerful, the Anker 511 Nano 3 is the best budget USB charger we tested – on sale for Prime Day
  • Can a $290m film studio on a former cow paddock lure Hollywood to Perth?
  • ‘Our characters like to be naughty’: the makers of the Nirvanna mockumentary on illegal skydiving, taboo-breaking and time travel
  • Russia used Israeli firm’s tool to crack phone months after ties severed, report finds
  • Jackass: Best and Last review – kings of gross-out comedy’s final, funny farewell
  • A Better Tomorrow review – firefights aplenty and unapologetic melodrama in John Woo’s blood-drizzled crime classic
  • Puppy eyes, sad hair and a big boom box: John Cusack films – ranked!
  • Datacentres are growing target of global climate-related legal cases, report finds

Contact www.richardhartley.com   Terms of Use