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Neither biopic nor a straightforward period film, Jane Campion’s Bright Star is better described as a ballad on love, creation and daily life in middle class Regency England. Inspired by Andrew Motion’s biography of the Romantic poet John Keats, Campion tells the story of Keats’ love affair with his neighbour, Fanny Brawne.

Starring an infamously rum-soaked Dennis Hopper as an audacious, impetuous bushranger, supported by a selection of Australia’s finest actors including David Gulpilil, Bill Hunter and Jack Thompson, Mad Dog Morgan is a wild and savage trip through Australian history. Inspiration to our most famous bushranger Ned Kelly, Daniel Morgan was an Irishman seeking his fortune [...]