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Thursday
Sep102020

REVIEWS / OLDER

New Zealand writer/director Guy Pigden brings a seven-year production to fruition, finding love and maturity along the way, in his romantic drama, Older. (Click here)

Wednesday
Sep022020

REVIEWS / BILL & TED FACE THE MUSIC

Those most excellent musical talents from San Dimas, California - Ted Theodore Logan and Bill S. Preston Esquire - are now middle-aged dudes. But the world, and also their marriages, still need saving (Click here)

Sunday
Aug302020

REVIEWS / SUPERHUMAN

The power of the mind and the force of the collective consciousness in shaping our world is examined in Caroline Cory's Superhuman (Click here)

Sunday
Aug302020

FEATURES / THE NEW BLOOD REANIMATING SYDNEY'S ORIGINAL HORROR PARTY 

After contributing for years behind the scenes, Bryn Tilly steps up to program the relaunch of Sydney's iconic shock show, A Night of Horror International Film Festival (Click here)

Sunday
Aug232020

REVIEWS / THE UNFAMILIAR

Henk Pretorious' spooky demonic/haunting low-budgeter will bulk up streaming channel's and appease the easily-pleased horror hounds (Click here

Tuesday
Aug182020

REVIEWS / THE PICKUP GAME

Thought toxic masculinity couldn't manifest itself any more insidiously? Check out The Pickup Game, a shocking insight into the 'seduction coaching' industry (Click here)

Sunday
Aug162020

REVIEWS / GRIZZLY 2: REVENGE

43 years in the making (sort of), a terrible sequel to an inexplicably popular Jaws rip-off could be the 'Great Bad Movie' weve been waiting for (Click here)

Saturday
Aug152020

BLOG / PREVIEW: 2020 SYDNEY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL

Despite the shuttering of their physical event due to COVID concerns, the 14th annual Sydney Underground Film Festival forges ahead with a mammoth online program (Click here)

Tuesday
Aug112020

INDUSTRY / BABYTEETH TAKES BITE OUT OF TRANSILVANIA F.F. AWARD ROSTER 

Director Shannon Murphy (left) continues to impress festival juries with her debut feature, Babyteeth (Click here)

Thursday
Aug062020

WORLD CINEMA / KINOSCOPE STRANDS, NEW TALENT INITIATIVE FORGING AHEAD ONLINE AT SARAJEVO FILM FEST

Sarajevo is under COVID-19 conditions, but the programming and technical teams behind the 26th Sarajevo Film Festival are determined to get their line-up (including Shirley, starring Elizabeth Moss; left) to the people of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Click here)

Tuesday
Aug042020

INDUSTRY / VALE ROSSLYN ABERNETHY

For four decades, New Zealand-born expat Rosslyn Abernethy was arguably Australasia's greatest production manager (Click here)

Monday
Aug032020

FEATURES / FIVE MUST-SEE MIFF MOVIES

The Melbourne International Film Festival is set to soar as a digital event, ensuring that for filmlovers across the Southern state and beyond, MIFF lives on in 2020 (Click here)

Monday
Jul272020

REVIEWS / GREMLINS: A PUPPET STORY

Joe Dante's iconic 1984 creature-feature was a turning point in Hollywood film-making and the career of monster designer Chris Walas, who recounts the period in this heartwarming making-of doco (Click here)  

Tuesday
Jul212020

REVIEWS / BLACK WATER: ABYSS

Just when you thought it was safe to go swimming in the shallow, muddy estuaries of northern Australia (Ed: it never is), Andrew Traucki unleashes his latest creature feature (Click here)

Sunday
Jul192020

REVIEWS / THE VERY EXCELLENT MR. DUNDEE

One of Australia's favourite sons travels down the 'ageing celebrity' satirical path in his final film, with very mixed results (Click here)