Metro is Australia's premier film and media quarterly journal. It is independent, outspoken and passionate about film, TV and new media from Australia, New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region. It provides readers with comprehensive coverage of the region's screen industries, and features writing by some of the foremost academics, critics and industry members.

Metro No. 194 includes coverage of the feature films Berlin Syndrome, Don't Tell, Dance Academy: The Movie and The Rehearsal; TV series Seven Types of Ambiguity and Glitch; Asian titles Ma'Rosa, The Dark Wind and By the Time It Gets Dark; and documentaries Casting JonBenet, Whiteley, The Opposition, Night Parrot Stories and Barbecue. The issue also includes essays on the films of Korean director Bong Joon-ho; on High Tide and cinematic depictions of women; and on seminal Australian film The Man from Snowy River; as well as in-depth analyses of Ali's Wedding and rom-coms foregrounding ethnicity, and of multicultural representations in cooking shows.