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. 197 includes coverage of the feature films Breath, Youth on the March and Winchester; Asian titles 24 Frames, Mr Gay Syria and Shalom Bollywood; and the documentaries Human Flow, War on Waste, Riot and Jill Bilcock: Dancing the Invisible. The issue also includes essays on the use of sound in the films of Warwick Thornton, on 2000s schlocky horror in New Zealand cinema, and on depictions of women in North Korean films; as well as in-depth analyses of the programming on new local channels ABC Comedy and SBS Viceland, and of the recent television reboots of classic Australian films Picnic at Hanging Rock, Romper Stomper and Wake in Fright.