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. 195 boasts a special feature section on Australian genre films, shining the spotlight on horror titles Bloodlands and Better Watch Out, thrillers Jungle and Rabbit, and sci-fi films OtherLife and Blue World Order, alongside a retrospective on Alex Proyas' Dark City and an essay on the growing presence of sci-fi in Australia. Elsewhere, the issue covers the local feature Australia Day; TV series Pulse; Asian titles The Woman Who Left, Pop Aye and Wolf and Sheep; and documentaries Gurrumul Elcho Dreaming, The Song Keepers, Namatjira Project, Spookers and The Go-Betweens. It also includes an academic investigation of the localisation of the Survivor franchise; and industry analyses of the rise and challenges of streaming services.