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Nell Geraets

Nell Geraets

Nell Geraets is a Culture reporter at The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.

Tom Hanks and Tim Allen return for Toy Story 5.

Does Toy Story still make you cry? Tom Hanks explains why

Toy Story stars Tom Hanks and Tim Allen, aka Woody and Buzz, share their thoughts on the franchise’s enduring appeal – and why the new film is the most heartbreaking so far.

  • Nell Geraets

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Spoof movies were all the rage a few decades ago, but are they gearing up for a comeback?

Spoof films were all but dead. Could Scary Movie resuscitate them?

From The Naked Gun and Scary Movie to Spaceballs 2, parodies seem to be slowly making their way back to cinemas. But are we ready to embrace them?

  • Nell Geraets
In Colony, the infected zombies become a grotesque, violent super-organism.

Zombie master’s new film flags a modern virus that has already infected us all

In Train to Busan, Yeon Sang-ho warned us of the dangers of unchecked capitalism. His new film, Colony, tells us we may already be too far gone.

  • Nell Geraets
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce may be tying the knot at Madison Square Garden on July 3.

A sports arena wedding for Taylor Swift? It’s not as crazy as you’d think

The pop juggernaut isn’t known for doing anything by halves. But could she really be getting married in a major sports arena on the eve of America’s Independence Day?

  • Nell Geraets
Australian-made children’s content on TV has collapsed in recent years.

‘I give us 10 years’: The alarming collapse of Australian children’s TV

Industry insiders feared what the removal of commercial quotas on children’s content in 2020 would mean for local content. Six years later, their worst fears seem to have been realised.

  • Nell Geraets
ACMI has been hit with a data breach just days after MIFF’s third-party ticketing platform was compromised.

ACMI hit with data breach days after MIFF’s ticketing platform hacked

The Australian Centre for the Moving Image is the second Melbourne arts institution to be involved in a data breach in less than a week.

  • Nell Geraets
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MIFF’s third-party ticketing platform Ferve Tickets was hacked, exposing the personal information of thousands of MIFF customers.

Film festival customer data exposed in hack of third-party ticketing platform

Melbourne International Film Festival organisers are investigating the hack, which has affected about 10 per cent of the festival’s total customer database.

  • Roy Ward and Nell Geraets
Monsteen core cast members (left to right) Zara Nawaz, Saskia Ellis-Gardam and Lucas Dwyer.

This theatre production is wild, but most people won’t be able to see it

Rising festival show Monsteen is filled with witches, vampires and werewolves. But it’s the audience that is the most intriguing.

  • Nell Geraets
Backrooms film

How this 20-year-old went from building worlds in Minecraft to making Hollywood movies

Kane Parsons has long been fascinated with mapping out new spaces, but it wasn’t until he came across a creepy picture on the internet that his own world began to quickly expand.

  • Nell Geraets
Video games were Cassandra Gray’s primary form of socialisation. Then she began to lose her eyesight.

Video games were Cassandra’s refuge. Then she began to lose her sight

Gaming has become a vital social tool, yet many people are unable to play the games. Swinburne researchers believe they have found a way to make them much more accessible.

  • Nell Geraets