It's back to the future as the government lays out plans for two new media sector support funds, extracting cash from the streaming companies, and nagging the government broadcasters. All without paying for it.

Combine the strange rules of screen production research with a pandemic and the resulting space-time ruckus is a true headache. We suffer so you don't have to.

Rams is speeding away to be the most successful domestic film of the year as Peter Rabbit thumps off to March next year.

Behind the recent Film Victoria $33.8M incentive announcements is a genteel rethink of the whole organisation. Double the games support, ecosystem thinking, and a low budget feature strand are in play.

As times change against the culture warriors, a very different Australia is crowding into our stories. It can be funny, scary, whimsical, challenging, mystical and plain shame-making – but always part of us.