REVIEWS / THE WAVE

Psychotropic drug-use turns Justin Long's insurance lawyer into a time-jumping moralist in Gille Klabin's head-trip fantasy (Click here)

BLOG / JOKER HAS LAST LAUGH WITH ELEVEN 2020 OSCAR NOMINATIONS

OSCARS 2020: Joaquin Phoenix's manic madman in Todd Phillip's Joker edges out Martin Scorses's The Irishman and Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood for the most 2020 Academy Award nominations (Click here)  

FEATURES / WILDCAT! THE RESURRECTION OF THE FILMS OF MARJOE GORTNER

From child preacher to leading man to bit player, Marjoe Gortner has existed for too long in Hollywood's fringe history. Author John Harrison hopes to redress the imbalance with his latest book, WILDCAT! The Films of Marjoe Gortner (Click here) 

REVIEWS / THE FACELESS MAN

Independent Australian horror hasn't been as unhinged as The Faceless Man since the wild ol' days of 10BA (Click here).

INDUSTRY / AACTA INTERNATIONAL CEREMONY HONOURS AWARD-SEASON FRONT-RUNNERS

AACTA International Award's voters back Parasite, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood and Marriage Story among 2019 winners (Click here)

REVIEWS / CATS

Wish we could join in the global cinematic neutering of Tom Hooper's Cats, but fact is we think it close to being the perfect (okay...purrfect) stage-to-screen-transition. (Click here)

REVIEWS / ONLY CLOUD KNOWS (ZHI YOU YUN ZHI DAO)

Memory, grief and a very cinematic spin on true love utilises majestic New Zealand countryside in this Chinese weepie fro director Feng Xiaogang (Click here)

REVIEWS / SCALES (SAYIDAT AL BAHR)

A monochromatic take-down of patriarchal dominance, set to the beats of a mermaid-fantasy narrative; Scales is set to take the festival circuit by storm (Click here)

FEATURES / THE SCREEN-SPACE BEST (AND WORST) FILMS OF 2019

Thirty of the year's best, including our #1 pick, from the mainstream to the little-seen. Plus a handful of the year's worst. Enjoy! (Click here)

INDUSTRY / THE NIGHTINGALE SOARS AT AACTA 2019

Jennifer Kent's blistering tale of violent retribution in the Tasmanian wilderness set records at the 2019 AACTA Awards ceremony last night (Click here)

WORLD CINEMA / BERLIN SCI-FI FILMFEST FETES M.A.J.I.C., THE TANGLE IN 2019 HONOURS ROLL

The vast 2019 program made narrowing down the best of the fest a tough gig, but judges and organisers of this year's Berlin Sci-fi Filmfest have done a cracking job with their final choices (Click here) 

FEATURES / THE PUBLIC LIFE OF EMILIO ESTEVEZ

One the biggest stars of his generation is now making smart, heartfelt, humanistic dramas that speak to a better America. Emilio Estevez talks about his latest film, The Public (Click here)

WORLD CINEMA / PARASITE, BEANPOLE LEAD HONOUREES AT 2019 ASIA PACIFIC SCREEN AWARDS

The film industries of Korea and Russia took key trophies, but everyone got a ribbon in an even spread of honourees at last night's 13th Asia Pacific Screen awards in Brisbane (Click here).

REVIEWS / THE UNSEEN (KAGHAZ-PAREH HA)

2019 ASIA PACIFIC SCREEN AWARDS: The plight of homeless women on the streets of Tehran, their involuntary life-long incarceration, and the patriarchal brutality that drove them their are confronted in Behzad Nalbandi's stunning stop-motion, heartbreaking documentary vision (Click here)

REVIEWS / STAY OUT STAY ALIVE

A PSA klaxon-call to steer clear of abandoned mines fall on five sets of deaf ears, leading to an increasing level of danger, both natural and supernatural, in debutant Dean Yurke's gripping wilderness thriller (Click here)