REVIEWS / THE MARSHES
2017 A NIGHT OF HORROR FILM FESTIVAL: The jolly swagman of Australian folklore is not so jolly in Roger Scott's debut feature, set in the remote, swampy ecosystem of the title (Click here)
2017 A NIGHT OF HORROR FILM FESTIVAL: The jolly swagman of Australian folklore is not so jolly in Roger Scott's debut feature, set in the remote, swampy ecosystem of the title (Click here)
A new Australian comedy will be the final straw for those of us waiting for the sector to make a broad, funny popular gag-fest (Click here)
The Conor McGregor Show goes from stage to screen in this very authorised version of the MMA champion's life (Click here)
The 7th aanual AACTA Awards are poised to be a Lion love-in, with Garth Davis' critical and commercial hit leading the 2017 contenders with 12 nominations (Click here)
Smart, emotionally resonant science-fiction is all-too-rare, so genre fans will gravitate towards John V. Soto's alternate-reality drama, The Gateway (Click here)
2017 RUSSIAN RESURRECTION FILM FESTIVAL: As the great director turns 80, Australia's celebration of Russian film culture - the largest outside of Russia - honours one of international cinema's great careers with a six film retrospective (Click here)
2017 MELBOURNE UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL: As the centrepiece of a discussion strand that argues we are in the grip of a new age of censorship, MUFF 2017 will present Andrew Wakefield's anti-MMR vaccine rant, Vaxxed: From Cover-Up to Catastrophe (Click here)
It was met with derisive jeers when it premiered at Cannes, but this high-profile passion project from director Sean Penn can't be as bad as the international press would have you believe...can it? (Click here)
The most anticipated sequel of 2017, a film spent 35 years in the making, can't possibly deliver on the weight of expectation that it has had to carry since it's production was announced...can it? (Click here)
Director Sean Baker's follow-up to the critically-lauded Tangerine is another bittersweet drama about extraordinary pesonalities living on the fringe of The American Dream (Click here)
In its 5th year, The SciFi Film Festival reaffirms its commitment to local and global science-fiction storytelling with its most ambitious and flavoursome slate of films yet (Click here).
2017 ADELAIDE FILM FESTIVAL: Gary Doust's making-of... documentary charts the razor's-edge intensity of the low-budget shoot of Red Christmas, a passion project that may just send its writer-director Craig Anderson over the edge (Click here)
2017 SYDNEY UNDERGROUND FILM FESTIVAL: This year's SUFF closing night attraction was a scatalogical cavalcade of all manner of physical filth. But is Kuso a challenger for the "grossest film ever made" crown, as some suggest, or is it all for show? (Click here)
A career retrospective of the late Harry Dean Stanton, one of the great character actors in Hollywood's long history (Click here)
2017 SITGES FILM FESTIVAL: The work-in-progress doco Tax Shelter Terrors shines a spotlight on the genre greats, amongst them producer Andre Link (left), who crafted the legend that is 'Canuxploitation' (Click here)