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. 196 includes coverage of the feature films The Silent Eye, Manifesto, 1%, Australia Day, Ellipsis and Three Summers; Asian titles Claire's Camera, On the Beach at Night Alone, A Man of Integrity and Blade of the Immortal; and documentaries Westwind: Djalu's Legacy, Have You Seen the Listers, Blue and Roller Dreams. The issue also includes essays on the resonances between Jane Campion's seminal The Piano and recent Top of the Lake: China Girl, on 2000s schlocky horror in New Zealand cinema, and on the French-Australian co-produced classic Walk into Paradise; as well as in-depth analyses of the impact of digitisation on Australian cinema.