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Australia

3 more films for the holiday season: Little Women, Song of Names and Spies in Disguise

Plus notes on a couple of new arrivals I have not been able to preview

Reviews: The Bookshop, classy, The Miseducation of Cameron Post, gay conversion slammed, and 1945, post-war ill will

Also: Support the Girls, in the serving staff, Papillon, in and out of an infamous prison, Breath, grow up and surf, The Happytime Murders, of puppets, and Little Italy, love and rival pizzas

PuSh Festival presents deeply moving Australian performance touring Canada for the first time: "dirtsong"

In the 150th year of a nation born from the displacement of its Indigenous peoples—dirtsong is more poignant than ever.

Denzel and The Magnificent 7, great fun with Storks and Antonio’s science scrap in Altamira

Also a disappointing revenge quest by Kate Winslet as The Dressmaker

A new Tarzan for our times, a friendly giant for the kids and De Palma talking about himself

Also a second-tier John Le Carré, a dialed-down Ibsen play, a slow-starting but strong Italian film and a weird comedown for Daniel Radcliffe

Australia's PuSh offerings: antipodal opposites

A flamboyant polemical monologue and a riddling Zen trio from Down Under.

Captain praying for families of five dead passengers aboard B.C. vessel

Doomed vessel's captain says passengers and crew were heroic as the vessel went under, claiming lives of five people.

Equipment that could provide more answers recovered from sunken B.C. boat

Ship capsized on Sunday with 27 people on board, about 15 kilometres from the tourist community of Tofino

First Nations tourism a cultural 'snapshot,' and 'a new geography of hope'

First Nations from across the Pacific team up in Vancouver to discuss how best to boost burgeoning business.

Reviews: Mad Max, a blast, Pitch Perfect 2, good fun, and Going Clear, scary

Also five other new films, about Kurt Cobain, sugar, drone warfare, Arab Israelis and post-Holocaust trauma