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Amazon Freevee has released the official trailer for the new chapter of the hit Australian daily drama ‘Neighbours.’

The series will return to screens on 18 September, with new episodes released daily, Monday-Thursday, at 7 a.m. BST, on Amazon Freevee in the UK and the U.S.

The continuation of the long-running series – about the lives, loves, and challenges of the residents on Ramsay Street in Erinsborough, Australia, a fictional suburb of Melbourne – will pick up two years after the finale in 2022, which was watched by millions of adoring fans.

Previous seasons of ‘Neighbours,’ as well as over 100 iconic episodes, are currently available to stream on Amazon Freevee. Additionally, the free streaming service features two series-themed Fast Channels on the service, ‘Neighbours – Looking Back’ and ‘Best of Neighbours.’

Also in trailers – “That road don’t end good…” Full trailer drops for the final season of ‘Top Boy’

The new series will star Alan Fletcher,...

London—1 August, 2023—It’s time to return to Ramsay Street!The new chapter of the hit Australian daily drama Neighbours will premiere exclusively on Monday, 18 September, on Amazon Freevee. The official teaser trailer and key art are available now. New episodes will be released daily, Monday-Thursday, on Amazon Freevee in the UK and the U.S. The series will also stream on Prime Video in Canada, Ireland, South Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. Australia’s Network 10 will retain first-run rights in Australia for the new chapter of the series.

“All the cast and crew are incredibly excited that Ramsay Street will officially welcome viewers again to the neighbourhood on 18 September in the UK and Australia, and also be introduced to brand new audiences in the US and Canada when the new chapter of Neighbours is unveiled.”

Jason Herbison, Neighbours’ Executive Producer

The continuation of the long-running soap series—about the lives,...

Fans can revisit the world of Neighbours beginning September 18, 2023 with Amazon Freevee’s revival of the long-running popular Australian series. The premiere date announcement was accompanied by a first-look teaser trailer along with a character-filled poster.

New episodes will air on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. Past seasons of the series, which ran for 30+ years, are currently available to stream on Amazon Freevee.

Previous seasons featured Margot Robbie, Kylie Minogue, Guy Pearce, and Russell Crowe before they made it big. The new chapter stars Alan Fletcher, Annie Jones, Candice Leask, Emerald Chan, Georgie Stone, Jackie Woodburne, Lloyd Will, Lucinda Armstrong Hall, and Lucinda Cowden. Marley Williams, Naomi Rukavina, Rebekah Elmaloglou, Riley Bryant, Ryan Moloney, Sara West, Shiv Palekar, Stefan Dennis, Tim Kano, and Xavier Molyneux are also on board as series regulars.

Neighbours guest stars include April Rose Pengilly, Guy Pearce, Ian Smith, Jodi Gordon, Melissa Bell, and Mischa Barton.

Street artist scoops most entertaining documentary prize at Grierson Trust British Documentary Awards

Street artist Banksy has won the most entertaining documentary prize at this year's Grierson Trust British Documentary Awards.

As usual, he did not appear in person to collect the award for Exit Through the Gift Shop– an amusing faux documentacoops prizery – but sent a message to the audience at the ceremony in London tonight.

Jury chairman Emma Hindley said: "The winner was a unanimous decision. It's a flawlessly made film; original and insightful, it asks questions rather than telling you what to think and at the same time, manages to be very, very funny."

The best documentary series went to Patrick Forbes for Channel 4's insight into Hampshire Constabulary in The Force, while Julian Temple's look at industrial and economic decline of America's Motor City in Requiem for Detroit for BBC2 won best historical documentary.

Mugabe and the White African,...

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s infamous ‘Hitler Speech’ of March 2003 caused an onslaught of violence against domestic opponents. So much so that an outraged George W. Bush froze all assets of Mugabe and many of his supporters. Mugabe’s words, quoted by reporter, Peta Thornycroft in the March 26, 2003, Telegraph.Co.UK, are in direct response to accusations by the British press that Mugabe’s political actions are comparable to those of Adolf Hitler:

“This Hitler has only one objective: justice for his people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people and their rights over their resources. If that is Hitler, then let me be a Hitler tenfold.”

This speech, reverberating in Mugabe’s own voice, forms a backdrop for the brilliantly disturbing new documentary “Mugabe and the White African” by newcomers Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson. It is no surprise that the film is shortlisted for an Oscar and should,...

This is a competition for Mugabe and the White African, directed by Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson. The powerful and deeply effecting feature documentary from British directors Andrew Thompson and Lucy Bailey, Mugabe and the White African, made a huge impact on its theatrical release, garnering huge critical acclaim and awards and nominations galore, winning Best Documentary at the British Independent Film Awards and nominated for both a BAFTA and an Oscar. This outstanding film now makes it way to DVD, complete with a slew of extras, on 10 May 2010 courtesy of Dogwoof.

A documentary about a white farmer who stood up to Robert Mugabe's land reforms is shocking but doesn't give the full picture

Foreign journalists working undercover in Zimbabwe know a tap on the shoulder from a man in uniform can mean a nightmarish spell in jail. Operating with notebook, pen and a quiver full of awkward questions is perilous enough, but British filmmakers Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson upped the ante by smuggling large-format film equipment into the country for their documentary Mugabe and the White African, which receives its TV debut on More4 next week.

The eponymous Mugabe is the president Robert Mugabe, who has ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist for 30 years. The eponymous white African is Mike Campbell, a septuagenarian farmer at the sharp end of Mugabe's chaotic land reform programme.

Mugabe began seizing white-owned farms in 2000, claiming such shock treatment was necessary to right colonial wrongs and empower landless black people.

The full list of winners at tonight's Orange British Academy Film Awards, held at London's Royal Opera House, is as follows: Best Film

Avatar

An Education

The Hurt Locker - Winner!

Precious

Up In The Air Outstanding British Film

An Education

Fish Tank - Winner!

In The Loop

Moon

Nowhere Boy Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer

Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson, Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock, David Pearson (Mugabe And The White African)

Eran Creevy (Shifty)

Stuart Hazeldine (Exam)

Duncan Jones (Moon) - Winner!

Sam Taylor-Wood (Nowhere Boy) Director

James Cameron (Avatar)

Neill Blomkamp (District 9)

Lone Scherfig (An Education)

Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) - Winner!

Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino) Original Screenplay

Jon Lucas, Scott Moore (The Hangover)

Mark Boal (more)...

The film Mugabe and the White African puts a heroic gloss on the colonial attitudes that endure in independent Zimbabwe

The documentary Mugabe and the White African, directed by Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson, received a four-star review in the Guardian. It is an account of Michael Campbell, one of the few white farmers left in Zimbabwe after Robert Mugabe and Zanu-pf began a violent land seizure programme in 2000. It portrays the 75-year-old Campbell's struggle to resist the unlawful seizure of his Mt Carmel Farm by Nathan Shamuyarira, a senior Zanu-pf politician.

In 2008 Campbell, assisted by his son-in-law Ben Freeth, successfully challenged Mugabe before the South African Development Community international court, charging his government with human rights violations and racial discrimination. The documentary is an emotionally charged depiction of the court case, and does not spare the viewer bloody footage and violence. "It resonates internationally because it is about big issues of human rights.

Avatar, An Education and The Hurt Locker each received eight nominations today for this year's film BAFTAs.

All three are competing for Best Film and Best Director at the Orange British Academy Film Awards, as they are formally known. The awards will be presented on February 21.

District 9 has seven nominations; Inglourious Basterds and Up in the Air have six apiece; and Coco Before Chanel, Nowhere Boy, Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire and Up each receive four nominations.

In the director category with James Cameron (Avatar), Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker) and Lone Scherfig (An Education) are Neill Blomkamp (District 9) and Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds).

Moon is nominated for Outstanding British Film alongside An Education, Fish Tank, In The Loop and Nowhere Boy.

Moon director Duncan Jones gets a nod in the category for outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer. The other nominees are Lucy Bailey,...

Digital Spy presents the full list of nominees for the 2010 Orange British Academy Film Awards, to be held on Sunday, February 21 at London's Royal Opera House. Best Film

Avatar

An Education

The Hurt Locker

Precious

Up In The Air Outstanding British Film

An Education

Fish Tank

In The Loop

Moon

Nowhere Boy Outstanding debut by a British writer, director or producer

Lucy Bailey, Andrew Thompson, Elizabeth Morgan Hemlock, David Pearson (Mugabe And The White African)

Eran Creevy (Shifty)

Stuart Hazeldine (Exam)

Duncan Jones (Moon)

Sam Taylor-Wood (Nowhere Boy) Director

James Cameron (Avatar)

Neill Blomkamp (District 9)

Lone Scherfig (An Education)

Kathryn Bigelow (The Hurt Locker)

Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino) Original Screenplay

Jon Lucas, Scott Moore (The Hangover)

Mark Boal (The Hurt (more)...

The film tackles an interesting question: when Goliath gets sued, how does David pay for his lawyers?

Last week, Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson's superb documentary Mugabe and the White African appeared, about an elderly white Zimbabwean farmer's battle with the racist bullying of the Mugabe government.

Here is another piece of factual cinema, from seasoned American documentarist Joe Berlinger, but with a more conventional liberal bogeyman: a big oil corporation. It does, however, tackle an interesting question neglected by Bailey and Thompson in their Mugabe documentary: namely, when Goliath gets sued, how does David pay for his lawyers?

This is the story of a class-action lawsuit taken out against Chevron, by the Ecuadorians living in the Amazon rainforest. Their case is that, in drilling there for oil in the 1970s, Chevron's former incarnation, Texaco, presided over horrific continuous oil spills poisoning a vast area. When Ecuador's state oil...

Film Weekly gets 2010 off to a blistering start with actor Andy Serkis, who has gone from playing Gollum and King Kong to inhabiting the skin and withered limb of the late Ian Dury in Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll. Serkis tells Jason Solomons about channelling the spit and fury of the uncompromising late 70s jazz-punk warrior, and how bringing Dury to life on the big screen forced him to dig deep into his skills as an artist, actor and musician. Serkis also discusses his return to playing Gollum in The Hobbit and why motion-capture technology will never put actors out of work.

The hard-hitting documentary Mugabe and The White African – about a white Zimbabwean farmer's attempt to take his country's president to the international court over his brutal land-reform programme – took the top prize at the recent British Independent Film awards and is released in the UK this week. Co-director Andrew Thompson...

The Road (15)

(John Hillcoat, 2009, Us) Viggo Mortensen, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Robert Duvall. 113 mins

Looking for something cheery and sunny to usher those winter blues away? Well this sure as hell ain't it. In fact, "hell" is a pretty good description for this adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalypse bleakfest. Hell frozen over, through which Mortensen and son are condemned to wander, cold and hungry, as some of the few survivors of an unnamed global catastrophe – the rest are mostly marauding gangs or pathetic vagrants. Somehow, though, the effect is less devastating on screen than it was on the page. It's difficult to do justice to McCarthy's prose, and one post-apocalyptic movie landscape looks much like another. Still, it's a sustained exercise in panoramic grimness, and we don't need it to be too devastating, do we?

Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll (15)

(Mat Whitecross, 2010, UK) Andy Serkis, Naomie Harris. 115 mins

An Ian Dury biopic...

While I've yet to see the doc myself (I reference Claire Denis' White Material when I think of what the film might hold narratively), when the Cinema Eye Honor Noms were released I was surprised to see that, despite the positive buzz, Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson's Mugabe and the White African only manage to grab one nomination. Clearly the film is a favorite for the 2009 edition of the Ida Awards - it picked up three nominations in the Feature Documentary, ABCNews VideoSource Award an the Pare Lorentz Award categories. - While I've yet to see the doc myself (I reference Claire Denis' White Material when I think of what the film might hold narratively), when the Cinema Eye Honor Noms were released I was surprised to see that, despite the positive buzz, Lucy Bailey and Andrew Thompson's Mugabe and the White African only manage to grab one nomination.

I'm glad that the organization, (now in year three I believe?) has a set in stone manner in which to evaluate the best of the best in doc films, something in which the Oscars have proved to be inadequate in acknowledging. - Having never asked any filmmaker the question of how the Cinema Eye Honors are perceived within the documentary filmmaker community, I'd be willing to bet that its quickly become a welcomed, annual celebration of the form. I'm glad that the organization, (now in year three I believe?) has a set in stone manner in which to evaluate the best of the best in doc films, something in which the Oscars have proved to be inadequate in acknowledging. The cut-off point appears to be before this year's Tiff, which means a doc like Chris Smith's Collapse, which only receives its theatrical release in November, won't make the cut until next year,...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revealed their list of the final group of 15 films that will contend for the Best Documentary Feature award this week, and with said announcement comes a twinge of bittersweetness. On one hand, the very powerful documentary The Cove -- a Sundance premiere that takes on the brutal killing of dolphins in Japan -- did make it to the final 15, as did the sensational SXSW pic Garbage Dreams and the incredibly fascinating food industry doc Food Inc. On the other hand, fan (and critic) favorite Anvil! The Story of Anvil -- the energetic, sad story of one of the most famous rock bands that you've never heard of -- was curiously missing from the list, as was multi-Oscar nominee Michael Moore's latest film Capitalism: A Love Story, a doc about our current financial crisis. While Michael Moore has had his date with Oscar, his...

I’m sure if you analyze and dissect the rules for eligibility, you’ll find some kind of loophole that kept films like Capitalism: A Love Story, Anvil!: The Story Of Anvil, and Crude off this list of finalists for Best Documentary Feature.

Maybe it’s not based on eligibility at all. Maybe those movies just didn’t make the cut, which, in my opinion, and a lot of other people’s, as well, is a shame. This isn’t even taking into account some of the festival docs that didn’t make the cut, films like Pulling John, We Live In Public, and The Yes Men Fix The World. Politics wins out once again (as if there was every going to be a question of it), and here are the list of 15 films that have moved on in the voting process:

The Beaches Of Agnes directed by Agnès Varda...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today released their list of the 15 films in contention for this year’s Best Documentary Feature Award. Of these fifteen films, only five will be nominated for the award. While there are some deserved, if unsurprising, inclusions such as Food Inc. and The Cove, what’s more interesting are the films that didn’t make the cut. I am bummed that Anvil! The Story of Anvil didn’t make it in but I think those guys have finally achieved the fame that always eluded them and while an Academy nod would’ve been nice, this movie got out there and did its thing. I’m more upset about the We Live in Public, which won the Grand Jury Prize award in the U.S. documentary category at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. I get to see these smaller, independent films around...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences today announced the 15 films in the Documentary Feature category that will advance in the voting process for the 82nd Academy Awards. Eighty-nine pictures had originally qualified in the category.

The 15 films are listed below in alphabetical order by title, with their production company: The Beaches of Agnes, Agnes Varda, director (Cine-Tamaris) Burma VJ, Anders Østergaard, director (Magic Hour Films) The Cove, Louie Psihoyos, director (Oceanic Preservation Society) Every Little Step, James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo, directors (Endgame Entertainment) Facing Ali, Pete McCormack, director (Network Films Inc.) Food, Inc., Robert Kenner, director (Robert Kenner Films) Garbage Dreams, Mai Iskander, director (Iskander Films, Inc.) Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders, Mark N. Hopkins, director (Red Floor Pictures LLC) The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, Judith Ehrlich and Rick Goldsmith, directors (Kovno Communications) Mugabe and the White African,...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has shortlisted 15 films that will advance in the race for the documentary feature category, culled down from 89 films that originally qualified.

  The titles include the work of veteran French director Agnes Varda, "The Beaches of Agnes"; "Every Little Step," James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo's doc about the making of a revival of "A Chorus Line"; Robert Kenner's expose of the food industry, "Food Inc."; and Matt Tyrnauer's fashion doc "Valentino, the Last Emperor."

Not listed were such prominent titles as Michael Moore's "Capitalism: A Love Story" and James Toback's "Tyson."

The 15 films are:

-- "The Beaches of Agnes," Agnes Varda, director (Cine-Tamaris)

-- "Burma VJ," Anders Østergaard, director (Magic Hour Films)

-- "The Cove," Louie Psihoyos, director (Oceanic Preservation Society)

-- "Every Little Step," James D. Stern and Adam Del Deo, directors (Endgame Entertainment)

-- "Facing Ali,...

Dave here with Tuesday's report from the London Film Festival, and it's been my best day yet. Excited?

What is love? It's an age-old question, and you can probably guarantee someone's already made some sort of documentary on the subject. But that doesn't stop filmmaker Nicholas Jasenovec and comedienne Charlyne Yi from giving it their own shot. Paper Heart is a self-conscious quirky film that mixes actual documentary footage of Yi's journey around America interviewing various people on how they'd define love with a strange interpolated story of Jasenovec (actually played by Jake Johnson) picking up on the romantic seeds between Yi and Michael Cera (as 'himself') and filming every aspect of their blossoming relationship to see if Yi finally succumbs to this mysterious thing called love. This latter thread is really quite strange in how transparently fake it is, and it seems quite unnecessary when the interviewees provide much more entertainment,...